News from June 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Orlando “Orly" Roybal, 39, of Albuquerque, was charged in federal court on June 7 with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl, possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking and being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition. Roybal will remain in custody pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - John Marston, 38, of Shreveport, Louisiana, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote to 120 months (10 years) in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - Fifteen members and associates of a Lowell-based gang, One Family Clique (OFC), have been charged, and 14 were arrested today, for allegedly perpetrating large-scale and long-running drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracies. In the course of the investigation, agents seized or purchased...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service today announced that visitor spending in communities near national parks in 2020 resulted in a $28.6 billion benefit to the nation’s economy and supported 234,000 jobs.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: ALAMOGORDO, N.M. - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 415,000 visitors to White Sands National Park in 2020 spent $22.5 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 309 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $26.0 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - Thirty-six defendants have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in operating a massive international sex trafficking organization that was responsible for coercing hundreds of Thai women to engage in commercial sex acts across the United States.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: After a one-year delay, the city of Grand Junction hosted an official ribbon-cutting ceremony on May 27 at Las Colonias Park on the Colorado River, just south of downtown Grand Junction. The river park section of Las Colonias opened in May 2020 but, due to the pandemic, an official ribbon-cutting was postponed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Peruvian woman today admitted smuggling approximately seven kilograms of cocaine into the United States from Peru, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Aaron Rex, 57, of Oroville, charging him with two counts of distributing heroin, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Danielle Sebenick, 29, of Glenside, PA, was sentenced to seven years in prison, and ten years of supervised release by United States District Court Judge Petrese B. Tucker for her distribution and possession of child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a new Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for up to $14.5 million to support active field testing of enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) technologies and techniques within existing wells. EGS, like all geothermal resources, supplies secure, resilient renewable electricity and heating and cooling that is always-available regardless of weather, and with a small environmental footprint.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: The terrain along our northern border with Canada is vast and unique, and features a diverse array of geographical landscapes including the grasslands, prairies, and lowland plains of North Dakota and the mountains and badlands of Montana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Brandon Planas (39, Orlando) to 17 years in federal prison for enticing an 11-year-old child to produce sexually explicit videos of himself and send them over the internet. Planas was also ordered to serve a 10-year term of supervised, register as a sex offender, and forfeit the electronic devices that he had used to commit his offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Beaverton, Oregon man was sentenced today for shining a high-powered green laser at a uniformed Federal Protective Service (FPS) officer providing security at the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse during a protest in July 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Saleh Mozeb, 65, of Buffalo, NY, with healthcare fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2 million grant to Hall County, Georgia, for roadway infrastructure improvements needed to support a new heavy equipment research and development facility...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: BAY CITY - Brittan J. Atkinson, 54 of Beaverton, was sentenced today to one year and one day in federal prison for sending threatening communications to a Washington, D.C. attorney, announced Acting United States Attorney Saima Mohsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Lyle Ryan Begaye, 44, of Tohlakai, New Mexico, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation of Fort Defiance, Arizona, was sentenced on June 2 in federal court to three years and 10 months in prison for assault resulting in serious bodily injury in Indian Country. Begaye pleaded guilty on Nov. 2, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - A husband and wife from Fairfax and their cousin from Spotsylvania were indicted last month for conspiring to distribute controlled substances in Virginia.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
Release: The United States condemns the ongoing suspension of Twitter by the Nigerian government and subsequent threats to arrest and prosecute Nigerians who use Twitter. The United States is likewise concerned that the Nigerian National Broadcasting Commission ordered all television and radio broadcasters to cease using Twitter.
