News from March 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
Release: LATROBE, Pa. - A Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, man was stopped by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport checkpoint on Wednesday, March 10, when they detected a.380 caliber handgun loaded with six bullets in his carry-on bag. It was the second gun caught by TSA officers at the airport’s checkpoint so far this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A member of a violent Chicago street gang has been sentenced to ten years in federal prison for engaging in a pattern of racketeering activity that included attempted murder, drug trafficking, and obstruction of justice.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
Release: The government of the Philippines has asked USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to authorize the importation of pineapple (Ananas comosus) for consumption into the United States and Territories. APHIS has drafted a pest risk assessment that describes potential pests associated with ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - In the last week, U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander has sentenced three members of the Monument Street drug trafficking organizations to at least five years in federal prison related to their roles in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine and/or fentanyl in the Monument Street...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The DEA Washington Division will take the month of March to honor the achievements and invaluable contributions women have made over the course of American history and today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data from the fourth phase of the Small Business Pulse Survey (SBPS). Data collection began Feb. 15. Results will be released weekly Feb. 25 to April 22. The SBPS includes questions on topics such as location closings, changes in employment, disruptions in the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Richard Lloyd Jack, Jr., age 57, of Mounds, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury in Indian Country, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 113(a)(6), 2, 1151 and 1153, punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00, or both.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announced the selection of Semitropic Water Storage District and Bard Water District as the two recipients of the Agricultural Water Use Efficiency Grant Program for fiscal year 2020. Combined with Natural Resources Conservation Service support and local...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal criminal complaint has been filed charging Clayton Alexander McCoy, age 30, of Chesterland, Ohio, with transporting explosives with intent to injure and with with using, carrying, or possessing a destructive device during and in relation to a crime of violence, in connection...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that two Pierre, South Dakota, men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Prohibited Person in Possession of Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Hawthorne man was sentenced today to 212 years in federal prison for intentionally driving his ex-wife and two disabled sons off a wharf at the Port of Los Angeles into the ocean - drowning the boys who were trapped in the car - to collect on accidental death insurance policies he had taken out on their lives.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott and Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations Subcommittee Chair Jahana Hayes issued the following statement after today’s hearing entitled: "A Look at Food Insecurity in America"...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
Release: The following statement was released by the governments of France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today continued his nearly two-year investigation of interference by former President Donald Trump into the prosecution of Turkish state-owned Halkbank, a financial institution that orchestrated the largest Iranian sanctions evasion...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Montrecus Jaworski Campbell, 40, of Ville Platte, Louisiana, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to 262 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of a substance...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - An Orange County man who was part of a crew that committed a series of armed robberies at Southern California cell phone stores has been sentenced to 114 months in federal prison, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of McKeesport, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of wire fraud, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Audrey Williams, 57, of Shreveport, Louisiana, was sentenced today for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, announced Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook. Chief U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. sentenced Williams to 48 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release. Williams was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $286,987.08.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Theodore Richardson, of Martinsburg, west Virginia, has admitted to his role in a drug conspiracy that spanned several states, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: A federal jury has convicted a Long Beach, California man of committing a spree of violent cell phone store robberies, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
