News from July 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig announced a Trenton, New Jersey woman today admitted distributing fentanyl that caused the death of a Monmouth county woman.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas resident was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison for robbing two U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail carriers while they were delivering the mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Michael Shafer, 33, of Modesto, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JOEL ALEXANDER FABRE, age 33, of California, was charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Aaron McArthur, aka Gangster Boogie, aka “G Boogie," aka “Boogie," aka “Suave," was sentenced today to 15 years in prison and ordered to pay over $20,000 in restitution for his role in a conspiracy to commit armed home invasion robberies in Sonoma County, announced Acting United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and FBI Special Agent in Charge Craig D. Fair. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Edward M. Chen, U.S. District Judge.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: 189 Republican Members of Congress, including House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers and House Republican Leadership, urged the Biden Administration to abandon their censorship mission and respond to inquiries regarding their coordination with social media companies to censor Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA -The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana announced today that RUDY GUNAWAN, age 41, a citizen of Indonesia, was sentenced on July 20, 2021 to time served by the Honorable Wendy B. Vitter on one count of possession of fraudulent immigration documents. Additionally, the Court ordered GUNAWAN to pay a $100 special assessment cost.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JILL LEWIS (“LEWIS"), age 40, resident of Slidell, Louisiana, entered a plea of guilty on July 21, 2021 to Conspiracy to Commit Mail fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, arising out of her involvement in a postal fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: Michael Kegley Jr. Promoted and Sold Prohibited Performance Enhancing Drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that QUINCY JACKSON, age 31 of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged on July 23, 2021 in a single count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury for violating the Federal Gun Control Act, Title 18 United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2).
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev. - From July 26, 2021, through Aug. 31, 2021, the Black Rock Field Office will be conducting road maintenance actions on Route 2054 High Rock Lake Road which connects Soldier Meadows Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) to High Rock Canyon Road.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: Two men implicated in a cocaine-distribution scheme after a traffic stop have admitted guilt on federal charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Daniel Capehart, 36, of Bloomfield, New Mexico, was convicted on July 22 by a federal jury of three counts of distribution of marijuana and methamphetamine, two of which occurred within 1,000 feet of a school and playground, in Farmington, New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that DAVID MORA, age 60, a resident of California, was sentenced on July 22, 2021 to 120 months imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Barry W. Barry Ashe for conspiracy to distribute and distribution of 100 grams or more of a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Mark D. Schneider, 60, formerly of Niceville, Florida, pled guilty yesterday to multiple federal tax crimes, announced Jason R. Coody, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. Schneider, who lived in Niceville during the commission of his offenses, was recently arrested by the United States Marshals Service after becoming a fugitive when he failed to appear on the day of his trial in Pensacola in January 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Trenton, New Jersey woman today admitted distributing fentanyl that caused the death of a Monmouth county woman, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Michael Shafer, 33, of Modesto, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: MOOSE, WY- Grand Teton National Park is continuing a multi-year program to eradicate non-native mountain goats as part of a management plan aimed to conserve a native and vulnerable population of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in the Teton Range. The program includes a qualified volunteer culling program this fall, September 22-Oct. 25, to remove non-native mountain goats from the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY- Nathan Pehrson, 41, of Sandy, was convicted by a federal jury in the District of Utah of three counts related to fraudulently obtaining and tampering with the pain killing narcotic hydromorphone, a powerful schedule II opioid drug that is used to treat patients with moderate to severe pain.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Secretary Cardona addressing the heightened importance of ensuring a smooth transition for student loan borrowers impacted by the recent announcements that two major student loan servicers are ending their federal contracts.
