News from June 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Fresno Police Department Vice Unit, and Fresno County District Attorney’s Investigators conducted a multi-day operation to combat child exploitation and human trafficking in the Fresno area, June...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA. - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that a Montz, La. man pleaded guilty on June 15, 2021 to conspiring to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine in violation of Title 21, USC Section 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(A), and 846, distribution of fifty grams of methamphetamine in violation of Title 21, USC 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(A), and being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of Title 18, USC Section 922(g).
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: USMCA: An Agreement for the 21st Century.
By State Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
Release: Today, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) announced a joint financing package of €600 million for Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd., headquartered in South Africa, to expand local vaccine manufacturing capacity. DFC is working together with DEG (Germany), Proparco (France), and...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research Chair Stacey Plaskett delivered the following statement at today's hearing titled “Supply Chain Recovery and Resiliency: Small Producers and Local Agricultural Markets.".
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Reps. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.), chair of the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands, and Katie Porter (D-Calif.), chair of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hailed the announcement today that President Biden will guarantee...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Joseph Rauber, 51, of Pisgah, Iowa, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Rauber to imprisonment for a term of 180 months. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from prison, he will begin a 5-year term of supervised release.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE) affirmed their commitment to increasing aviation safety and building a more sustainable industry during a virtual meeting today with senior officials from both continents.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Herbert Smith, 33, of Philadelphia, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to seven counts of manufacturing child pornography. Smith was indicted as a result of his extended sexual abuse for more than two years of a child who was just eight years old when Smith began molesting her.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have upgraded their laser frequency-comb instrument to simultaneously measure three airborne greenhouse gases - nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide and water vapor - plus the major air pollutants ozone and carbon monoxide.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - Two men have been charged in federal court with conspiring to steal a dozen handguns from a suburban Chicago firearms dealer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: Defendants allegedly used high-volume pill presses capable of producing thousands of counterfeit pills that actually contained fentanyl each hour.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced they have introduced bipartisan legislation to protect Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reservists from losing their...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Yesterday, MARCEL STEWART, 27, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced to serve 78 months in federal prison for being a convicted felon in illegal possession of a firearm, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Republican Leader Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), and top Republican on the Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE), hosted a meeting on Tuesday examining the Biden Administration’s proposal to create a second death tax-by repealing so-called “stepped-up basis"-that will harm America’s family farms, ranches, and Main Street businesses.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: The House Appropriations Committee today approved the fiscal year 2022 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies bill by voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: Springfield, MO - U.S. Marshals-Midwest Violent Fugitive Task Force and Springfield Police Detectives arrested a Springfield man on Tuesday for charges stemming from a domestic shooting on June 11th.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: A San Marcos man has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for illegally excavating a Native American homestead in Amarillo, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Yesterday, a federal grand jury issued a fourth superseding indictment charging Luis Carmona-Bernacet, Yadiel Serrano-Canales, Rolando Rivera-Solis, Alex Burgos-Amaro, Alan Lugo-Montalvo, and Fabiany Almestica-Monge with being members of an enterprise engaged in murder and drug...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that KYLE F. CAMPBELL, age 31 of Fairmont, Indiana, pleaded guilty to charges stemming from an incident that occurred on June 21, 2021, in Yellowstone National Park (YNP). Campbell appeared for arraignment and sentencing before United States Magistrate Judge Mark L. Carman in Mammoth, Wyoming, on June 23, 2021.
