News from June 2021
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2021
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - US Park Rangers of Zion National Park in Utah are investigating multiple vehicle burglaries that occurred in the park.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON- U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, announced that Fitzhugh Elder IV will succeed Martha Scott Poindexter as staff director for the Republican side of the committee after Poindexter steps down at the end of the month to assume the role of chief operating officer at the U.S. Dairy Export Council.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2021
News Release: Defendant Shoved Police, Kicked Officer on the Ground and Stole Riot Shields.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2021
News Release: New Orleans, LA - The New Orleans Police Department Violent Offender Warrant Squad (NOPD VOWS) and the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) New Orleans Task Force, located and arrested Moss Point, Mississippi Police Department Murder suspect, Anthony Rashawn Hunt (DOB: 09/19/1983) at a New Orleans, LA hotel...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm was sentenced on June 7, 2021, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today the Indictment of DILLON J. EVERETT, age 34, of Golden Meadow, Louisiana, who was charged in a two-count federal indictment for Receipt and Possession of Materials Involving the Sexual Exploitation of Children in violation of Title 18, United...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2021
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Romaine Blunt, age 44, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty yesterday to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, and to violating the conditions of his supervised release for a previous conviction.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2021
News Release: Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park announces a temporary, four-day closure of a portion of the LBJ Ranch in Stonewall, TX. The closure will last from Monday, June 14th through Thursday, June 17th and will restrict visitor access to the north end of the ranch including the Show Barn, Hangar Visitor Center, Western National Parks Association gift store, and Texas White House Complex. Weather permitting, this will be the last closure for this project.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2021
News Release: Man Sentenced for Production of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2021
News Release: DEL RIO - A federal judge sentenced 50-year-old Eduardo Riojas Villarreal of San Antonio to 21 months in federal prison yesterday for stealing money from the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas (Kickapoo).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2021
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that James Michael Stewart, age 42, of Muskogee, Oklahoma was found guilty by a federal jury of one count of Attempted Aggravated Sexual Abuse in Indian Country. This crime is punishable by...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - Two alleged Boston gang members were sentenced this week in federal court in Boston for cocaine conspiracy and firearm charges.
By State Newswire | Jun 11, 2021
Release: The United States congratulates the people and government of Mongolia for their successful presidential election on June 9, the eighth such election since Mongolia’s peaceful democratic revolution in 1990. We commend Mongolia for its commitment to democracy, and we are proud to be Mongolia’s “third neighbor"...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2021
News Release: East St. Louis, Ill. - A convicted felon from the Metro East is headed to prison for possessing a loaded rifle. Fernandez White, 28, of East St. Louis, Illinois, was sentenced on Thursday to the statutory maximum term of 10 years in prison. White previously pled guilty to the offense in February.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned two indictments Thursday against a total of 17 defendants for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 11, 2021
News Release: Dear Acting Director Young and Mr. Sullivan...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2021
News Release: POINT REYES STATION, Calif. - Point Reyes National seashore is providing supplemental water to the Tomales Point Tule Elk Reserve at Point Reyes National Seashore in response to historic drought conditions. Although some natural water sources continue to be available, these sources may dry if this year...
By State Newswire | Jun 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan announced it would be suspending visa operations beginning June 13th in response to an increase in the rise of COVID-19 cases in the country. At a time when thousands of Afghans are desperately trying to get their visas processed before the U.S. fully withdraws from the country, the House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican has issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) issued the following statement on reports that the Department of Justice inappropriately targeted journalists and Members of Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2021
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on June 10, 2021, Naim Taylor, age 23, and Antwan Dozier, age 23, both of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute 100 grams, or more, of heroin (one hundred grams of heroin is equivalent to 4,000 individual doses.
