News from March 2021
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: (DILLON, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management is planning several prescribed burns in Madison County during the upcoming spring months.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) delivered the following remarks on the nomination of the Honorable Debra Haaland to be secretary of interior.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County man and a Bronx, New York, man were charged for their participation in a scheme to steal bank customer identities and then use that information to steal more than $600,000, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A West Springfield man was sentenced today in federal court in Springfield on child pornography charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Brady on Fox: Partisan Dem Tax Hikes Will Follow $1.9T Political Payoff.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced today that Melik Petersen was sentenced to 12 years in prison for assault with the intent to commit robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: 33 Defendants Face Federal Drug and Gun Charges in Operation Central Sweep.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that Joanne Benjamin, age 41, from the Virgin Islands pled guilty in federal court on March 11, 2021 to Conspiracy to Defraud the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Raleigh man was sentenced today to 144 months in federal prison for robbing three Subways and three gas stations in Raleigh in 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Oliver McNair, 30, of Petal, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Taylor B. McNeel to 210 months in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF"). McNair was also ordered to pay a $5000 fine.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A federal jury convicted a Belize citizen March 11, for using a fraudulent United States Permanent Resident Card and a fake Social Security card (listing a Social Security number not assigned to him) while applying for a "Real ID" identification card at a Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles office in Henderson, Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney W. Anders Folk today announced a 16-count federal indictment charging JARED JOHN FIEGE, 34, with fraud, aggravated identity theft, and illegal possession of firearms. FIEGE will make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - King Bob Leonard, 28, of St. Thomas, entered a guilty plea to the charge of Conspiracy to Distribute Cocaine, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: “The men and women of the U.S. Attorney’s Office have worked tirelessly to pursue justice and support victims of crime, and we will continue to do so in response to the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals’ ruling in Hogner v. Oklahoma," said Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson. “So far in 2021, the Northern...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal jury on Tuesday convicted a Columbiana man for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Mickey French.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
Release: The Department of State is deeply disappointed by the expected grant of parole in the State of California of Hampig “Harry" Sassounian, who was convicted of the 1982 murder of Turkish Consul General to Los Angeles Kemal Arikan.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has extended the comment period for the existing noise research portfolio, including the Neighborhood Environmental Survey, and additional areas recommended for investigation to April 14, 2021. Both notices are available on FAA’s website ; in addition, you can review the first notice and read the comment extension notice at the Federal Register website.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on March 10, 2021, Justin Rashaad Brown, age 31, of York, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment to be followed by six years of supervised release, by U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo, for distributing crack cocaine and possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In light of evidence that U.S. federal agencies have granted an excessive number of waivers to Buy American laws in the last few years, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Chris Murphy (D-CT), Lindsey Graham (R-SC),...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks during a Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security hearing on "Controlled Substances: Federal Policies and Enforcement"...
