News from March 2021
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: MOSCA, CO - The month of April has been proclaimed by the City of Alamosa as the Great Sand Dunes Appreciation Month, celebrating Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. Each year in April since 1991, National Parks across the country celebrate National Park Week with special programs, events, social...
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
Release: The United States strongly condemns reported Assad regime artillery attacks and Russian airstrikes that killed civilians in western Aleppo and Idlib, yesterday. Reported artillery shelling on the Al-Atareb Surgical Hospital in western Aleppo killed several patients, including a child, and injured more than a dozen medical staff. This hospital’s coordinates had been shared with the UN-led deconfliction mechanism.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a Winner, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Receipt of Child Pornography and Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: Fairbanks, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Wilson announced that Melissa M. Lascurain, 40, of North Pole has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of Mail Theft and Delay or Destruction of Mail by a Postal Employee.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart announced that Ra’Quan Rasheen Williams, 24, of Columbia, was sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison, after pleading guilty in September 2020 to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This evening on the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, discussed his recent trip to the southern border in El Paso, Texas, where he witnessed firsthand the ongoing migrant and unaccompanied children crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Javon Hardy, 25, of Rochester, NY, who pleaded guilty to rioting, was sentenced to serve 12 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa. Hardy was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $14,504.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Wednesday, March 17, 2021, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Lavelle Harris, age 36, of Burlington, to 262 months in prison for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine announced Acting United States Attorney Richard D. Westphal. Following his prison term, Harris was ordered to serve five years of supervised release as well as pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Last week, Leon Arron Nopah, 31, of Casa Grande, Arizona, was sentenced by United States District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 108 months in federal prison. On Dec. 2, 2020, Nopah pleaded guilty to Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced today that Somalie Bruce, age 35, and Jeanorah Williams, age 26, of St. Croix were arrested for firearms trafficking; conspiracy to engage in firearms trafficking; shipping, transporting...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - During the current COVID-19 pandemic there are many efforts to apply smartphone-based technologies to automate the contact tracing and exposure notification process. However, the technical approaches have privacy and civil liberty implications. Through its Silicon Valley Innovation Program...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Cocaine and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on March 22, 2021, Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court. Michael Kearney, age 29, was ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: A federal grand jury in East St. Louis, Illinois, has returned a 21-count indictment charging.
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the foreign ministers of Canada, and the United Kingdom, and the United States Secretary of State.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk sentenced Demarko Nelson to 46 months in prison today. The 23-year-old Berkeley, Missouri resident pleaded guilty, in December, to three counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and one count of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl.
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
Release: The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Counter-Terrorism Working Group (CTWG) held a virtual workshop on “Soft Target Protection in an Aviation Ecosystem" to address terrorist attacks in airports. Organized by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Counterterrorism (CT Bureau) and the U.S. Transportation...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: MIAMI - Carlton Cash (49, Fort Lauderdale, Florida) was sentenced to ten years in prison for distributing crystal methamphetamine. Cash holds an active Florida medical license.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Thursday, March 18, 2021, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Isaiah Michael McAllister, age 22, of Davenport, to 37 months in prison for Felon in Possession of a Firearm announced Acting United States Attorney Richard D. Westphal. Following his prison term, McAllister was ordered to serve three years of supervised release, as well as pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Portland man was sentenced to federal prison today for perpetrating two separate fraud schemes targeting his family and friends, resulting in losses exceeding $650,000, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Scott Erik Asphaug.
