News from June 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - Disaster assistance services are available for survivors at an in-person Recovery Service Center (RSC) in Lake Charles. FEMA, the Louisiana Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, the City of Lake Charles and Calcasieu Parish have teamed up to offer multiple services in one location, including help appealing a FEMA decision.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation invites members of the press and public to the third virtual meeting with the Orchard Mesa Irrigation District and Grand Valley Water Users Association to negotiate a lease of power privilege contract. The lease will deliver on a Department of the Interior...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man with a felony record made his initial court appearance today on charges of carrying two loaded handguns and a quantity of heroin and cocaine, U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: Washington - Following a 15-month closure due to COVID, outdoor athletic fields administered by the National Park Service around the National Mall will reopen for organized and permitted use on Thursday, July 8. Reservations for the 12 mixed use and 12 dedicated softball fields around the National Mall...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: Defendant previously prosecuted in military court for attempted sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years’ imprisonment and eight years’ supervised release on his conviction of drug trafficking charges related to a large-scale investigation conducted by the Greater Pittsburgh Safe Streets Task Force, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following statement on the House floor in support of H.R. 3239, To make improvements in the enactment of title 41, United States Code, into a positive law title and to improve the Code...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI -United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that Michael Kelly, 30, a resident of Las Vegas, NV, pleaded guilty in federal court to trafficking firearms in interstate and foreign commerce.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - United States Attorney David C. Weiss announced that Jose Santana-Gonzalez, 36, of Chester, Pennsylvania was sentenced on June 17 to 87 months in federal prison. Santana-Gonzalez previously pled guilty to distributing heroin containing fentanyl and agreed that his drugs caused the death of a 50-year-old man from New Castle County, Delaware.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: EL PASO - Alex Barron, a 30-year-old Horizon City resident, admitted in federal court today to being a convicted felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: Law enforcement agencies across Iowa continue to make communities safer by vigorously investigating and prosecuting gun related crimes. This effort has resulted in charges and arrests in forty-eight federal cases between November 2020 and June 2021 in the eastern half of the state and thirty-two in the western half of the state.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty yesterday in connection with using the identity of a U.S. citizen at the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: MACON, Ga. - Hours before his federal trial on charges that he had illegally dispensed prescription opioids was scheduled to begin, Dr. Thomas Sachy admitted his guilt and was taken into federal custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - An indictment was unsealed following the arrest of an Acampo man Monday, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: U.S. SENATOR GARY PETERS. Michigan’s ports are a key reason the state serves as an international hub for commerce, supporting the livelihoods of countless families in the Great Lakes Region. The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System is a vital transportation network, and the ports along this route...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Richard H. Adams, IV, 29, was sentenced to 144 months in prison after pleading guilty to Possession with the Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, a Class A felony.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today released the following statement on the fifth anniversary of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act. This bipartisan legislation overhauled the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), our nation's primary chemical safety law, and represented the first major environmental reform passed into law in a quarter-century.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM ’s Office of River Protection (ORP) and its tank operations contractor are constructing a new facility on the Hanford Site to house about 160 craft personnel under one roof and improve the efficiency of tank farm operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced on June 14, 2021, that ROMALIS HARRIS, age 36, a resident of New Orleans, pled guilty to a two-count Superseding Bill of Information. In Count 1, HARRIS is charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 500...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: Richard (Rick) W. Spinrad, Ph.D., an internationally renowned scientist with four decades of ocean, atmosphere, and climate science and policy expertise, was sworn in today by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo as the under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and the 11th NOAA administrator. This follows his confirmation by the U.S. Senate on June 17, 2021.
