News from June 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Rain Concha, 23, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of Nambe Pueblo, was sentenced on June 14 in federal court to seven years in prison for aggravated sexual abuse in Indian Country. Concha pleaded guilty on June 15, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Concord, CA. - The National Park Service, in collaboration with the Friends of Port Chicago National Memorial, the Army, and East Bay Regional Park District invite you to join the annual Port Chicago Commemoration on July 17, 2021 at 10:00 am, as we honor the 320 men who lost their lives in the largest...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Western WY- The fire danger rating has been elevated to very high for Grand Teton National Park, Bridger-Teton National Forest, and the National Elk Refuge. Conditions in the Teton Interagency area are drying rapidly, and a fire may start easily, spread quickly and burn intensely. Everyone is asked to practice heightened fire safety at all times.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Boothbay man pleaded guilty today in federal court to distributing child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Debra Haaland testified before the House Committee on Natural Resources regarding the Biden administration's Fiscal Year 2022 budget. Committee Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement in response.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Danbury CT - The U.S. Marshals Violent Fugitive Task Force and the Danbury Police Department this morning recovered a trafficked and endangered child, and in the process arrested a man suspected of assault.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: The 29th annual Haunting in the Hills Storytelling Festival is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 18, from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM (ET) at Bandy Creek Visitor Center area field. Enjoy a fun-filled day of stories, music, crafts and more. This signature special event is free and open to the public. Bring a lawn chair or blanket and be part of a 29-year tradition, and make sure to stay through the evening for the captivating Haunting in the Hills ghost stories.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The chief executive officer of a private equity investment firm was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for defrauding an investor of $1.35 million dollars, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On June 23, 2021, Kristopher M. Voyles, 31, of Georgia, was sentenced to 27 months in prison, followed by three years’ supervised release, by the Honorable Clifton L. Corker, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 23-year-old south Texas man has been ordered to federal prison for possession of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By State Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Representatives Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Albio Sires, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, Migration, and International Economic Policy, issued the following statement in response to allegations of widespread fraud in Peru’s recent presidential elections...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A 31-year-old registered sex offender living in Smithfield, RI, who allegedly claimed during Instagram communications with two minor boys in Florida to be 17-years-old, has been ordered detained in federal custody in Rhode Island on charges he attempted to send obscene material, including live video of him performing a sex act on himself, to one of the boys.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Carl David Davis, of Hepzibah, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By State Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
Release: MODERATOR: We wanted to do this just on background attributable to senior State Department officials to give you a sense of some of the discussions today, and we thought we would start with the Libya discussion. And [Senior State Department Official One] can offer a sense of how things went, the progress that was made, and what remains. So again, we’ll just do this on background.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: On June 22, 2021, at approximately 5:00 p.m., Blue Ridge Parkway dispatchers received a report of a motor vehicle collision involving a motorcycle and a passenger van near Milepost 450. When rangers arrived on the scene, CPR was in progress on two individuals determined to be the motorcycle operator and passenger. CPR was performed by an off-duty firefighter and doctor that came upon the accident until local EMS also arrived on scene.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: On June 28 and 29, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity will host an Energy Storage for Social Equity Roundtable to explore the relationship between energy equity and energy storage. Flexible and available at any scale, energy storage offers a useful framework and starting point to a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Witnesses at Trial Testified that During One Robbery Dingle Racked His Gun, Pointed the Gun at a Store Clerk and Threatened to Shoot the Clerk in the Head.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: The House Appropriations Committee today released the draft fiscal year 2022 Financial Services and General Government funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The legislation provides annual funding for the Department of the Treasury, the Judiciary, the Executive Office of the President, and other independent agencies, including the Small Business Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington has sentenced Steven Phillip Griffin, II (36, Palm Harbor) to 12 months and 1 day in federal prison, to be followed by 2 years of supervised release, for receiving and transporting endangered species in violation of the Endangered Species...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Daniel Porrazzo, a/k/a “lickndipinu," age 51, of Stillwater, New York, pled guilty today to two counts of possession of child pornography.
