News from March 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) today announced the grand-prize winner of the Digital Wallets Challenge. The prize challenge sought a design concept for an easy-to-use, trusted user interface (UI) for digital wallets that improves the overall...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a Parmelee, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: Marvin Gamoneda Participated in a June 2018 Shooting in Which a 13-Year-Old Child Was Struck By Gunfire.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - The owner of five Chicago-area Pepe’s Mexican Restaurant franchises pleaded guilty in federal court today to filing false corporate tax returns that underreported approximately $2.5 million in gross receipts and sales.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of Virginia. Monday, March 15, 2021. ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Vienna man was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy that involved multiple swatting attacks targeting journalists, a Virginia university, a historic Virginia...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Michael G. Wheat (619) 546-8437.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
Release: APPLETON, WI - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers stopped a male passenger from carrying a loaded 9mm firearm onto his flight at Appleton International Airport (ATW) on Friday, Mar. 12. The firearm was the first one detected at ATW this year.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart announced today that three former deputies with the Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office - Carolyn Colter Franklin, 64; Allan Hunter, 52; and Nathaniel Miller Shazier, III, 29 - all from Orangeburg County, were sentenced to multi-year...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
Release: JOHNSTOWN, PA - Donna LaMonaca hasn’t gotten much sleep lately, but she isn’t complaining and neither are the more than 60 senior citizens who she has spent her nights registering for their vaccine appointments.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, ME - A Caribou woman was sentenced today in federal court for conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.

By State Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
Release: Thank you, Professors Flake and Jackman, for your kind introduction and inviting me today. “State of the United States: An evolving Alliance agenda" - an excellent report, and a broad, compelling, and important topic - and ever-relevant to us and so many of our colleagues across the Indo-Pacific.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: Fort Larned NHS announces its prescribed fire season beginning now through April. Prescribed fire is one method used to promote a healthy prairie and maintain the cultural landscape of the park. It is also used to control exotic vegetation and promote native plant and animal diversity. Prescribed fire is a partnership operation involving the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and support of local agencies.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer and Using and Carrying a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK - Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division, and Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York that Adriano Rodriguez-Diaz, Ironellys Paulino-Nolasco, and Robert Nunez were charged in a criminal complaint...

By State Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
Release: The following statement was released by United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, and UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on the occasion of the 10-year anniversary of the Syrian uprising.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) released the following statement in response to Committee Democrats scheduling a legislative hearing on H.R. 51, an unconstitutional bill to grant statehood to the District of Columbia.

By State Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Joe, thank you so much, and I think everything you said is accurate, except for the use of the word “accomplished" for musician. But I appreciate it nonetheless.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: BOISE - 4 Brothers Dairy, Inc. (4 Bros.) and its owner, Andrew Fitzgerald, 60, of Shoshone, Idaho, were sentenced in U.S. District Court for unlawful discharge of pollutant into a water of the United States, a misdemeanor violation of the Clean Water Act, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr. today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - Zury Brito-Arroyo, Bonifacio Brito-Maldonado, and Roberto Arroyo-Garcia have been sentenced to federal prison for manufacturing and distributing methamphetamine in a home where a minor child resided and within 1,000 feet of a school. The three men, all of whom had illegally entered the United States from Mexico, utilized a family home in Norcross less than 200 feet from an elementary school to operate a methamphetamine laboratory.
By State Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
Release: Thank you, thanks so much, Dr. Crane. Thanks for a very kind introduction and for your role here.