News from March 2021
By DOE Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
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By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Acting United States Attorney Lisa G. Johnston announced today that Curtis Watson, 52, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced to a total of 295 months in prison and five years of supervised release. He was previously convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy to distribute heroin, using ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Christopher Lee Dubry, age 25, of La Plata, Maryland, pleaded guilty on March 9, 2021, to possession of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Yesterday, Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, sent a letter requesting that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) provide a briefing to Congress about the infiltration of law enforcement departments by white supremacists. The FBI repeatedly told the Subcommittee last year that there was no evidence that this was a significant threat.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has installed new acrylic shields at the security checkpoint at Fort Dodge Regional and Mason City Municipal Airports as part of the agency’s continued efforts to implement initiatives to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: A Des Moines man and convicted felon who distributed nearly a pound of methamphetamine and possessed a gun was convicted by a jury today after a three-day jury trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Gabriel Antonio Thompkins, II (25, Tampa) has pleaded guilty to making a false statement to a federally licensed firearms dealer in connection with the attempted purchase of a firearm, and to possessing firearms and ammunition as a convicted felon. Thompkins faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison for the false statement charge and up to 10 years’ imprisonment for the firearms possession offense.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released operational statistics for February 2021 regarding the crisis at our southern border and the massive influx of unaccompanied children making the dangerous journey to our border...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Second Degree Murder and Discharging, Brandishing, or Possessing a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas announced today that 31 DFW-area children have been located, recovered, or rescued as a result of “Operation Missing in the Metroplex," a month-long operation led by the U.S. Marshals Service and Homeland Security Investigations.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park staff are hosting three volunteer opportunities in campgrounds and picnic areas across the park in preparation for the busy spring season. These service events are ideal for people interested in learning more about the park through hands-on work alongside experienced park staff.
By State Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul has issued the following statement ahead of Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan meeting with the Director of the Chinese Communist Party’s Foreign Affairs Commission Yang Jiechi and...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of Virginia. Wednesday, March 10, 2021. RICHMOND, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Richmond man today for distributing fentanyl on multiple occasions. According to court records and evidence presented at trial, Quotez Tyveck Pair, 33, a known...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
Release: Washington - In January 2021, President Biden released the National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness. The plan is driven by science, data, and public health to improve the effectiveness of our nation's fight against COVID-19 and to restore trust, accountability and a sense of common purpose in our response to the pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - One resident of River Rouge, Michigan, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Erick Edgardo Amaya, 42, an illegal alien from Honduras, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Taylor B. McNeel to unlawful return of an alien after removal, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Michael J. Harrison, Acting Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data from the extension of the third phase of the experimental Household Pulse Survey. The extension includes intent-to-vaccinate and stimulus payment questions. The Household Pulse Survey is the result of an effort by the Census Bureau and other federal statistical...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: CAPE GIRARDEAU - United States District Judge Stephen R. Clark sentenced Donald Sanders to 110 months in prison today. The 63-year-old Williamsville, Missouri resident pleaded guilty, in September, to one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and one count of attempting to intimidate or threaten a government witness.
By State Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member McCaul, thank you so much for your warm welcome. It’s very, very good to be back before this committee, to be back in this room. And I really do appreciate the opportunity to talk today about the foreign policy goals and priorities of the Biden-Harris administration and some of the early work that we’ve done to try to achieve them.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Defendant, Posing as a Teenage Boy, Allegedly Targeted a Minor on Instagram and Solicited Sexually Explicit Photos and Videos of Her.
