News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Misty Rose Jackson, of Martinsburg West Virginia, has admitted to her role in a drug distribution operation, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that RODRICK DOW CRAYTHORN, 52, of Syracuse, Utah, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl, for excavating and damaging archeological resources in the cemetery of the Fort Yellowstone National Historic Landmark in...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Derek Indivero, age 28, of Dewitt, New York, was sentenced today to serve 30 years in prison for attempted coercion and enticement of a child and possession of child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon, Special Agent-in-Charge Thomas Relford of the Albany Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and New York State Police Superintendent Keith Corlett.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: PHOENIX - Last week, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) partnered with the Mesa Police Department and the Attorney General’s Office in a four-day undercover operation that resulted in the arrest of six local men for child sex crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on March 8, 2021 by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By State Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
Release: Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry will travel to Abu Dhabi, New Delhi, and Dhaka April 1-9, 2021, for consultations on increasing climate ambition ahead of President Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate April 22-23 and the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change later this year. For media inquiries, please contact ClimateComms@state.gov.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with the March 2019 robbery of a T-Mobile store in Brockton and shooting at police officers as he and his co-defendants fled the scene.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C. -Chairman James E. Clyburn and all Democratic Members of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis sent letters to the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the National Archives as part of an...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Va.- Hunter Royal, a Marion, Virginia man who used Snapchat to contact numerous underage girls and coerce them into sending him sexually explicit photos, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to 324 months in federal prison, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar and Special Agent in Charge Raymond Villanueva for HSI’s Washington, D.C. field office announced.
By State Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
Release: Over the past year, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has continued to dismantle Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy, in violation of its obligations under the Sino-British Joint Declaration and Hong Kong’s Basic Law. In particular, the PRC government’s adoption and the Hong Kong government’s implementation of the National Security Law (NSL) have severely undermined the rights and freedoms of people in Hong Kong.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHAZ DEAR, 23, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today to possession of a firearm by a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that Sheba Young, age 44, from St. Croix, was sentenced yesterday in federal court to ten months of incarceration, followed by three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to Conspiracy to Defraud the United States. She was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $37,086 to the Internal Revenue Service.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Versailles, Ky., man, David McKinney, 52, was sentenced to 240 months in federal prison on Wednesday, by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, after previously pleading guilty to distribution of 50 grams or more of methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Searsport man was sentenced in federal court today for attempting to transfer obscene material to a minor, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.

By DOE Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced awards totaling $110 million for diverse small businesses working on scientific, clean energy, and climate solutions for the American people. The 102 projects in 24 states are pursuing technological solutions in various areas, including...

By US DOT Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), today issued the following statement on President Biden's American Jobs Plan...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Tuesday, March 30, 2021, Deandre Varnel Gross, 36, of Converse, Texas, appeared in federal court and pleaded guilty to conspiring to unlawfully distribute oxycodone, announced Acting United States Attorney Sandra J. Stewart.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Ranking Member James Comer, Government Operations Subcommittee Chairman Gerald E. Connolly, and Ranking Member Jody B. Hice sent letters to 23 agencies requesting their current policies for interacting with Inspectors General and cooperating with Inspector General investigations.

By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy & Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) releases a statement on President Biden’s expected announcement today...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Tiffany McAllister, 44, of St. Louis, Missouri, pleaded guilty to three counts of tax fraud. McAllister appeared, today, before United States District Court Judge Ronnie L. White.