News from June 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: One man has been sentenced to federal prison and four others await sentencing after admitting to firearms felonies in U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Christine Shook, of Petersburg, West Virginia, has admitted to child pornography charges, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By State Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States of America, I congratulate His Royal Highness Grand Duke Henri and the people of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg as you celebrate your National Day and the Grand Duke’s Official Birthday. .
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on June 16, 2021, ALONZO PITTMAN, 34, from Orleans Parish, pled guilty as charged to a one-count indictment for being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1).
By State Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
Release: It’s been a great pleasure and honor for me to serve as the Chairperson of the International Commission for the International Tracing Service, which oversees the Arolsen Archives over the last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that James R. Bell, age 30, of Newark, New Jersey was sentenced on June 21, 2021, to 240 months’ imprisonment to be followed by four years on supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion for conspiring to distribute controlled substances resulting in death.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Beatrice, Nebraska - Homestead National Historical Park will be hosting the Homestead Harmonizers as a part of our annual Homestead Days event. The Homestead Harmonizers will be featured at the Education Center’s outdoor stage on Saturday June 26, 2021 at 3:00 PM. The Homestead Harmonizers is a chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society. They are a group of men from southeast Nebraska and northeast Kansas who enjoy singing barbershop harmony.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) received this year’s Presidential Migratory Bird Federal Stewardship Award, in recognition of the Wildlife Services program’s efforts to conserve large native migratory birds and protect people in Hawaii. The Council ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Willie J. Wofford, 45, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm and ammunition by an unlawful drug user. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a fine of $1,000,000 or both.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: GRAND CANYON, Ariz. - On June 22 at approximately 1:20 p.m., the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a call reporting CPR in progress approximately a half mile below the South Kaibab Trailhead.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Defendant Bryan Gilbert Díaz-De Jesús, a.k.a. “Bryan Gilbert De Jesús," was sentenced today to 72 months (6 years) in prison for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, introduction of misbranded drugs into interstate...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Collin Davis, age 34, of Pasadena, Maryland, pleaded guilty on June 22, 2021 to carjacking resulting in death, related to Davis’ murder in Baltimore of an individual who he knew and had attempted to carjack.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: The House Appropriations Committee today released the draft fiscal year 2022 Legislative Branch funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The legislation provides annual funding for the Legislative Branch of the United States government, including the United States House of Representatives, the Capitol Police, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Library of Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks, as prepared, during the markup of H.R. 3826, the Platform Competition and Opportunity Act of 2021...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber has sentenced Justin Case Lebarron (28, Pasco County) to life imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine resulting in death, distribution of fentanyl and methamphetamine resulting in death, possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl, and maintaining a drug-involved premises.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Cedar Rapids, IA - U.S. Marshals arrested in Zwingle today an Illinois man who was wanted on federal charges out of Springfield, Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that OSCAR ZAVALA, also known as “Manuel Garcia Martinez," “Oscar Rangel Zavala" and “Oscar Zavala Rangel," 43, of California, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 45 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Rhiannon Lee Rojas, 43, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Richard G. Kopf to nine years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-A Coos Bay, Oregon man was sentenced to federal prison today for producing sexually explicit images and videos of a 3-year-old child.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Kula, Maui - Visitors will soon be able to reserve and stay overnight in the cabins located in Haleakala Crater. Reservations for wilderness cabins Hōlua and Kapalaoa will go live on Recreation.gov beginning July 1, 2021 at 7 am Hawaiian Standard Time (HST). Maui Wilderness cabins were previously issued...
