News from June 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A Guatemalan man was sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, Fla - FEMA has approved grants totaling $16,445,577 to reimburse recovery expenses in Florida for Hurricane Michael in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig sentenced David M. Foston to 125 months in prison today. The 49-year-old St. Louis resident pleaded guilty in February to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: The NPS is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 John L. Cotter Award for Excellence in NPS Archeology. This award is presented to individuals and teams who demonstrate innovation in archeological practice, resource stewardship, and public outreach, among other criteria. We celebrate the kind of work we wish to see throughout the National Park system.
By State Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: Dear Madam Vice President: We write in advance of your upcoming visit to Guatemala to encourage you to address the violence, discrimination, and extreme economic marginalization facing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) persons in Guatemala. We appreciate that you have...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig sentenced David M. Foston to 125 months in prison today. The 49-year-old St. Louis, Missouri resident pleaded guilty, in February, to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - ERIC RODRIGUEZ and GREG TRAHAN were charged on June 4, 2021, in a four-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury with violations of the Federal Controlled Substances Act, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By State Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
Release: The United States is deeply concerned by the continued violence in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon. We continue to call for both the Cameroonian government and separatist armed groups to end the violence and engage in a dialogue without preconditions to peacefully resolve the crisis. It is important...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Dennis Mancino, the former Chief Executive Officer of HD View 360, Inc., a publicly traded penny stock company that purported to distribute and install security surveillance systems, was sentenced by United States District Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto to 15 months’...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Dallas Edward Weber, Jr. has admitted to a child pornography charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - An Akron, Ohio man pleaded guilty today to distributing methamphetamine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: MOOSE, WY-The unpaved section of the Moose-Wilson Road in Grand Teton National Park will be temporarily closed for seasonal dust abatement beginning 4 a.m. Tuesday, June 15 and will reopen by 8 a.m. Thursday, June 17. This routine dust abatement application happens several times during the summer on the approximately one-mile of unpaved section of the seven-mile road.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Hurricane man pleaded guilty today to being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: HAMMOND- The United States Attorney’s Office announced that Tina L. Nommay is now the Acting United States Attorney.
By State Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member McCaul, all committee members, thank you very, very much for this opportunity to talk about our proposed budget and how it will help achieve our national security priorities and deliver results for the American people, which is what I know all of us are about.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: Queens, N.Y. - The National Park Service (NPS), in partnership with the Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy, a project of the Fund for the City of New York, is pleased to announce the groundbreaking of an innovative living shoreline and restoration project at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Gateway...
By State Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
Release: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will accompany President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on his June travel to Cornwall, UK; Brussels, Belgium; and Geneva, Switzerland.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: CINCINNATI - The lead of three defendants charged in a narcotics conspiracy punishable by at least 10 years and up to life in prison pleaded guilty in federal court in Cincinnati today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that KAREEM DAVIS, a/k/a “Reem," was sentenced today to life in prison for the April 18, 2011, murder of Bolivia Beck. Ms. Beck, 20, was killed by a bullet while standing next to her boyfriend in the Mill Brook...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - A federal judge sentenced Former Karnes County Sheriff’s Deputy Oswaldo Bernal today to 32 months in federal prison for straw purchasing approximately 40 firearms that were subsequently trafficked to Mexico.
