News from June 2021
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: SANTA FE, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management opens a 30-day public scoping period to collect public comments and identify potential issue of the SunZia Southwest Transmission Project. If approved, this project aims to transport up to 4,500 MW of energy from New Mexico to markets in Arizona and California. The scoping period will end on July 6, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Andrew Jennings, 42, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced on June 4, 2021 by United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. for possession of crack (cocaine base) with intent to distribute. He received a sentence of 84 months with a three-year term of supervised release to follow. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that two defendants have been sentenced to federal prison by Chief U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A Corbin, Ky., woman has been indicted for a scheme to commit COVID relief fraud and identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A former Boston Police officer has been charged and has agreed to plead guilty in connection with an ongoing investigation of overtime fraud at the Boston Police Department’s (BPD) evidence warehouse.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Dustin Bruce Moran, of Parsons, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 210 months of incarceration for his role in a methamphetamine distribution operation, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Donald Hildebrandt, age 51, of Bel Air, Maryland, on the federal charges of obstruction of justice, production of child pornography, and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and ATF Special Agent in Charge John B. DeVito announced that the following defendants have been indicted within the last week for illegally possessing firearms as felons.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: Latvian National Charged for Alleged Role in Transnational Cybercrime Organization.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: ANNISTON, AL - Due to growing interest from visitors, Freedom Riders National Monument (FRRI) will expand the Anniston Greyhound Bus Depot hours. The building will open to the public on Friday afternoons from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm in addition to FRRI's existing weekend hours.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), today released the following statement on Congressman Peter DeFazio's introduction of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's surface transportation bill, the INVEST ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Independence, Missouri man who fled from law enforcement officers several times on a four-wheeler was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: Armed Robbery of Shreveport Store Sends Man to Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Bryan Cho, also known as “Yong Hee Cho," a Special Agent with Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with a scheme to create false identification documents and passports using...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: Superintendent Kevin Eads has announced the completion of a comprehensive planning effort to analyze potential impacts of a Deer Management Plan (plan) and environmental Assessment (EA) at Pea Ridge National Military Park. Based on the analysis presented in the EA and public comments received during...
By State Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
Release: Moderator: Greetings to everyone from the U.S. Department of State’s Media Hub of the Americas in Miami, Florida. I would like to welcome our participants who have dialed in from the United States and across the region. This is an on-the-record press briefing with Acting Assistant Secretary of State...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - In celebration of National Trails Day on June 5, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today announced 10 new national recreation trails in eight states, adding more than 160 miles to the National Trails System. The newly designated trails join a network of more than 1,300 existing national recreation trails, which can be found in every U.S. state.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management today announced that it has selected the West Virginia University Research Corporation to receive $5 million for the research and development of an advanced component that can improve the ability of thermal power plants to generate highly-flexible, low-carbon power from traditional, renewable, and nuclear energy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Chicago man was arrested yesterday and charged with sexual exploitation of children and receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Miriam E. Rocah, Westchester County District Attorney, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the arrest of CHRISTOPHER...
