News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Cincinnati man, Sammie Green, 25, was sentenced to 174 months in federal prison on Tuesday, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, after previously pleading guilty to carjacking and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA), and Representative Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) are set to introduce the Water Quality Protection and...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - The Bureau of Reclamation is pleased to announce the selection of Katrina Grantz as assistant regional director for its Interior Region 7 - Upper Colorado Basin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Va.- Leonardo Acevedo-Vazquez, an inmate at the USP Lee in Jonesville, Virginia, was sentenced yesterday for unlawfully possessing a weapon inside the prison, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Ocala, Florida - A federal jury has found Michael Kendrick (35, Ocala) guilty of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and possession of a firearm as a convicted felon. Kendrick faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, and up to, life in federal prison. His sentencing is scheduled for June 21, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: $2.5 million in fraudulent relief seized, recovered by banks & U.S. Government.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Attorney Matthew Kober, 45, of Draper, Utah, was charged via criminal information on Monday with one count of conspiring to launder money obtained via wire fraud in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Andrew Vikash Kummeth (28, Orange Park) to eight years in federal prison for possession of images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children. Kummeth was also sentenced to a 10-year term of supervised release and was ordered to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Brandon Garcia, 22, of Jersey City, NJ, was sentenced to 14 years and nine months (or 177 months) in prison, and 4 years of supervised release by United States District Court Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl for the armed robbery of a Speedway gas station and convenience store in Allentown, PA on March 28, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Florence, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart announced today that Nathan Branham, 40, of Cheraw, was sentenced to nearly seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to transferring obscene material to a minor and having his federal supervised release revoked.
By State Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
Release: The following statement was released by the Security Consultative Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A Shaler Township resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics trafficking laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - A coalition of congressional leaders from the Senate Committee on Finance and the House Committee on Oversight and Reform today urged the Biden administration to finalize a rule to reform the organ procurement system in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Bulgarian national pleaded guilty today in connection with a scheme to create counterfeit ATM cards and to withdraw money from the bank accounts of unsuspecting customers.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Bighorn Canyon is taking applications for the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program for the summer season of 2021. This is an important program that provides both work and life experiences for high school students.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 1,156,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to China during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) and Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) today sent a bicameral letter, cosigned by 99 House and 17 Senate Democratic colleagues, to President Biden urging him to adopt a transparent, stakeholder-driven...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Reno man was convicted by a federal jury yesterday for robbing a liquor store and a convenience store at gunpoint, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Christopher Chiou for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Patrick Gorman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: A federal judge in El Paso sentenced 34-year-old Daniel Leal yesterday to 87 months of imprisonment for cocaine trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff; FBI Special Agent in Charge Luis Quesada, El Paso Division; and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Kyle Williamson, El Paso Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of New Kensington, 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.
