News from June 2021
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: SAFFORD, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released proposed Wilderness and Ecosystem Plan Amendments to supplement the Safford Field Office (SFO) Vegetation Management Plan Environmental Assessment (EA). The amendments are available to the public for a 45-day comment period that ends on July 18.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Residents of Davidson, Williamson and Wilson counties whose homes were made unsafe or uninhabitable by the March 25 to April 3 storms and flooding may be eligible for temporary rental assistance from FEMA.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that Ronald Mickel, 41, of Lorain, was sentenced on Wednesday, June 2, 2021, by U.S. District Court Judge Sara Lioi to 15 years imprisonment. A federal jury convicted Mickel of being a felon in possession of ammunition in September 2020.
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
Release: Tomorrow marks the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Named after the nearby Gate of Heavenly Peace, the square is instead synonymous with the brutal actions by the Government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1989 to silence tens of thousands of individuals advocating to have a say in their government and exercise their human rights and fundamental freedoms.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 3, 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 $4 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Durant, Oklahoma, to build an operations center at the Choctaw Nation Emerging Aviation Technology Center.
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of Japan and the United States of America.
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C.- Last week, the World Health Assembly elected Belarus and Syria to the WHO’s Executive Board. As a member of the General Committee, the United States had the ability to challenge any appointment to this board by calling for a vote, yet the Biden Administration let the election go by consensus, only speaking out afterwards. House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul has released the following statement.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Diatomaceous Dreams, a show of Native Miamian Rick Cohen’s found-object assemblage sculptures inspired by single-celled aquatic plants, is the newest exhibit in Biscayne National Park’s Dante Fascell Visitor Center Gallery. The exhibit is on display from 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. daily from June 11 through Sept. 12.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson, Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member John Katko, and Oversight and Reform Committee Ranking Member James Comer announced the release of a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report they requested on systemic management problems at the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General (DHS OIG).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Havre man accused of receiving child pornography on his cell phone admitted to charges today, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: CONCORD, NH - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Doriel Guerrero, 22, of Methuen, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Brent Hooton, 48, of Marysville, charging him with sexual exploitation of a child and distribution of child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SAAED MOSLEM and his father, MEHDI MOSLEM, were found guilty in White Plains federal court today of conspiring to commit bank fraud and to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS") in connection with their...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced Arthur Jay Traxler, Jr. (55, Monroe, Michigan) to 10 years in federal prison for attempted online enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity. Traxler has been detained since his arrest in November 2020. Traxler...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk today announced that four people involved in a Twin Cities-based methamphetamine trafficking ring have been sentenced to prison for their roles in the drug distribution conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Morristown, NJ - Beginning on or about June 14, 2021 Morristown National Historical Park’s (NHP) Fort Nonsense area (located near the intersection of Ann and Chestnut Streets in Morristown, New Jersey) will be closed to the public due to a roadway and parking area pavement rehabilitation project. The project is expected to last three months through to approximately mid-September. The closure will be for both vehicles and pedestrians.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: CINCINNATI - A Cincinnati man was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 480 months in prison for sex trafficking and creating child pornography of a 16-year-old victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, ME - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced that a Presque Isle man was sentenced in federal court today for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Rockland man pleaded guilty today in federal court to making a hoax distress call, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Javontae D. Rucker, 29, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley to 27 years in prison for production of child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
