News from June 2021
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Pecos, NM: - Join park volunteer and career geologist Laura Reich for monthly geology walks at Pecos National Historical Park. This one-mile roundtrip walk along the main trail will introduce the landforms, geological concepts, and rocks that influenced why people settled or traveled through the Upper Pecos River Valley.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Medford, Oregon - As a result of the North River Fire, the Mountain of the Rogue Recreation Area will be closed until further notice. This order covers all BLM-managed public lands, roads, sites, and trails in Township T36S R04W, Sections 22, 23, 26, and 27 Willamette Meridian.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: A man with ties to Florida and New Jersey was arrested yesterday for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the process of ascertaining and counting the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: AUSTIN, Texas - U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel today sentenced 34-year-old Austin resident Juan
By EPA Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee blocked Republican attempts to allow PFAS chemicals to be safely used in critical products like medical devices, PPE, and protective gear for our law enforcement and military. Rather than support bipartisan amendments to the PFAS...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the full Committee voted to favorably advance three bills to increase access to safe, affordable water, and protect Americans from PFAS contamination...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Mission Hills, Kansas, man was sentenced in federal court today for a bankruptcy fraud scheme related to his online payday loan company.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 27-year-old Brownsville resident has been ordered to federal prison for possession of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Peter Hingston, 62, of Amherst, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to two counts of possessing child pornography. Each count carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Portland, ME - The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) announces the arrest of Oscar Geovanny Melgar-Flores, 25, on warrants issued from the State of Maine for Unlawful Sexual Contact (Class C), Unlawful Sexual Touching (Class D), and Furnishing Liquor to a Minor (Class D).
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) released the following joint statement today after the House of Representatives passed two public health bills...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Almondo Baker, 40, La Crosse, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 72 months in federal prison for unlawfully possessing a loaded firearm as a convicted felon. Baker pleaded guilty to this charge on May 4, 2021.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following remarks at the beginning of today’s full Energy and Commerce Committee markup on water infrastructure and PFAS legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A Florida man was sentenced today for a bank robbery in Anniston, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Bill Pascrell, Jr. announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on “Expanding Access to Higher Education and the Promise it Holds" on Tuesday, June 29, 2021 beginning at 2:00 PM EDT.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 44 months in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and distributing a quantity of heroin, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jonathan M. Cuney, age 38, and a part-time resident of East Greenbush, New York, pled guilty today to unlawfully possessing firearms including “ghost guns," and ammunition, and admitted to maintaining large collections of firearms and ammunition in East Greenbush and Humboldt County, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: U.S. Attorney’s Office Continues to Work with Law Enforcement Across the District to Combat Violent Crime by Taking Unlawfully Possessed Guns Off the Streets.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: TOCCOA, GA - With the holiday fast approaching, a 56-year-old worker at a Toccoa plastic processing facility could never have known he would spend Christmas Day in a hospital and die from a head injury after falling more than 6 feet from an elevated platform.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Subcommittee on Government Operations Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) called for an urgent investigation into reports that the Biden Administration is targeting certain career civil servants at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). In his letter to the Inspector General...
