News from July 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Good afternoon and welcome to the Oversight Subcommittee’s hearing on Expanding Housing Access to All Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Donald Messick, 50, of Coushatta, Louisiana, appeared before Chief United States District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. today and pleaded guilty to fraud. A Bill of Information was filed April 23, 2021 in United States District Court charging Messick with one count of wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Over the Course of the Investigation, Law Enforcement Seized Kilo Quantities of Drugs, Loaded Guns, and More Than $535,781 in Drug Proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: DAYTON - David Joseph Carter II, 21, of Powell, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to robbing a local Dollar General store five times while armed.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Washington - Researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) announced today that they have found an innovative way to treat pathogens (harmful bacteria) and pests in citrus trees, potato, and tomato plants without the use of antibiotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that AQUILINO TORRES was convicted of kidnapping, kidnapping of a minor, and stalking for the October 2020 kidnapping and stalking of an adult female victim (“Victim-1") and the kidnapping of Victim-1’s 7-year-old son (“Minor Victim-1"). TORRES was convicted following a one-week jury trial before U.S. District Judge Denise L. Cote.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Philadelphia, PA - Members of the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force arrested Glenn “Bless" Long, 28, for federal narcotics trafficking, at approximately 5:15 a.m. on July 14th in the 600 block of Darlington Road in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Long was wanted for a September 2018...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to the botched robbery of a Grandview, Mo., auto dealership that ended when he shot an employee while fleeing, after a shootout with the owner, who was also armed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was sentenced today for his role in distributing fentanyl throughout southeastern Massachusetts.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: “Much of the scrutiny of fraud in the EIDL program during the Trump Administration has focused on the agency’s lack of anti-fraud controls and vulnerability to unwitting approval of fraudulent loan applications. But the recent indictment and guilty plea of Joel Greenberg-the former Tax Collector of Seminole...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that on July 12, 2021, a federal jury convicted Gilberto Joel Hernández Marín of unlawful possession of a machinegun. He faces a sentence of up to 10 years of imprisonment.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: BOTHELL, Wash. - The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) authorized the use of federal funds to help with firefighting costs for the Chuweah Creek Fire burning in Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Tyler Glenn Chance Warren, 31, of Pendleton, Oregon, was sentenced to three years’ federal probation, a $1,000 fine, 40 hours of community service, and a three-year fishing ban after illegally taking bull trout from the Metolius River in the Deschutes National Forest.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: A former Perryton police officer pleaded guilty today to child pornography charges, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- As Congress prepares to consider sweeping jobs and infrastructure legislation, noteworthy stakeholders are voicing their support for Ways and Means Committee Democrats’ urgently-needed proposal to provide American workers with universal paid leave and guaranteed child care. The Building an Economy for Families Act is a groundbreaking plan to provide working families with the essential supports that they need in order to participate fully in the U.S. economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Duluth man pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection to a COVID-19 relief fraud scheme, announced Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Reese Inman, 39, of Parkersburg, pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Ex-girlfriend tried to escape abuse and drug addiction with move to Seattle, but defendant would not let her go.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: 14-year-old child led buyer to drugs in Roslindale apartment shared with a preschooler.
