News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: Ocala, FL - Darrell Pete (32, Ocala) has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess a firearm as a convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell today sentenced Edward Omar Johnson, age 37, of Baltimore, Maryland to 141 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for committing five bank robberies and two attempted bank robberies in Baltimore and York, Pennsylvania, between Feb. 27, 2019, and March 19, 2019. During each robbery, Johnson presented the victim teller with a demand note stating that he had a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: The defendant’s sentence comes nearly three weeks after his sister was sentenced to prison for the same crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: STATESBORO, GA: An Emanuel County woman has admitted creating a fake business and using it to receive funding from a federal COVID-19 small business relief program.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: DENVER - The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved $19.4 million in additional funding for COVID-19 response efforts in North Dakota. To date, FEMA has paid more than $77.1 million in Public Assistance funding for COVID-19 response in North Dakota. The assistance was made available under a major disaster declaration issued April 1, 2020.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Workers continue to make progress on construction of the Integrated Disposal Facility, a key component of the Hanford Site ’s Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste program to begin treating tank waste.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 23, 2021 - We are facing a crisis at our southern border. In fact, we’ve been facing a crisis there for years. We should be using every available resource to improve our immigration process, but in the meantime, we absolutely must equip our agencies with enforcement tools. If we don’t, our environment will suffer as a result.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: Brady: GOP Rejects Dems’ Sham “Members’ Day" Hearing, Call For Real Work on Infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - The former owner and sole shareholder of The Shape of Behavior (TSOB), a Texas-based provider of therapy services for children with autism, has agreed to pay to resolve allegations that the company submitted improper claims to the TRICARE program, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina---- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart announced today that Jerrod Dupree Lyman, Jr., 30, of Spartanburg, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: Fairbanks, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Wilson announced that Ryan Dalbec, 42, Raihana Nadem, a/k/a/ Raihana Dalbec, 27, of Virginia, and Brian Lowell Nash II, 30, of Washington, have been charged in a 26 count indictment with conspiracy, bribery, and money laundering involving millions of dollars’ worth of U.S. military contracts in Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - Convicted felon Anthony Holmes, 29, has pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a weapon. Joseph C. Murphy, Jr., Acting U.S. Attorney, announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Brownsville, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced the unsealing of a 13-count superseding indictment that charges four men with federal offenses related to their alleged theft of millions of dollars in vehicles, phones, ATMs and other merchandise from numerous locations in Connecticut, New York and elsewhere.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Hunter Jacob James Hope, age 21, of Muldrow, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to seven counts of production of child pornography, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2251, and...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee Chairman Mike Thompson (D-CA), and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement in response to recent reports on unpaid taxes from wealthy Americans...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: Concord, NH - This morning, U.S. Marshal’s “Fugitive of the Week," Drew Alden Hankins surrendered at the Newbury (NH) Police Department to the U.S. Marshals. Drew Alden Hankins, 32 years-of-age, who was last known to reside in Dover, NH when the arrest warrants were issued. The first warrant was issued...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JAMAL BRISSETT, a/k/a “Trigger," a/k/a “Trigg," pled guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kevin N. Fox to one count of Hobbs Act robbery. As part of his plea, BRISSETT admitted that on June 30, 2009, he shot and killed Leshaun Gordon, the victim of the robbery. BRISSETT is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kimba M. Wood on June 22, 2021.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Ohio Emergency Management Agency (Ohio EMA) announced today that $8,778,624 in federal funding has been made available for costs related to the state’s response to COVID-19 under the federal disaster declaration of March 31, 2020. This funding is an advance payment for costs to establish the community vaccination site at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: MOAB, Utah - Travel and transportation are integral to the use and enjoyment of public lands. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is initiating an Environmental Assessment (EA) analyzing motorized access of public lands in the Labyrinth Rims/Gemini Bridges Travel Management Area (TMA), which covers approximately...
