News from March 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $2 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to help the state of Kansas prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Man Convicted of Receiving, Soliciting, and Promoting Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Judge Henry E. Autrey sentenced Clarence Brown to 30 months in prison today. The 35-year-old St. Louis, Missouri resident pleaded guilty to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Ilan T. Graff, the Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced that SOHRAB SHARMA, a/k/a “Sam Sharma" was sentenced today to eight years in prison in connection with his leading role in a scheme to induce victims to invest more than $25 million worth...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Fairfax man today for downloading images and videos depicting children as young as four years old being sexually abused and for utilizing the Darknet to solicit and promote child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Nolan Hueftle, age 60, of Broken Bow, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha by United States Magistrate Judge Michael D. Nelson for violating the Lacey Act. The Lacey Act prohibits the trafficking in interstate commerce "tainted"...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Michael Hughes, 32, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to 30 years in prison, five years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution to his victims by United States District Court Judge Cynthia M. Rufe, for two armed robberies in which two victims were shot in the leg in August 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man was charged today with tax evasion for calendar years 2014 to 2016, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By State Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
Release: Today the U.S. Department of State announces a reward increase of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Kamchybek Kolbaev and/or for information leading to the disruption of financial mechanisms of Kolbaev’s criminal organization.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
Release: Please know that beginning April 5, 2021, all applicants for permits from the United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Biotechnology Regulatory Services (BRS) will be required to apply using APHIS eFile.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Late Wednesday afternoon, a federal jury in Pensacola convicted Tony M. Streeter, of Fort Walton Beach, on multiple drug charges, firearms offenses, and a conspiracy to commit arson-related offense. The convictions, which followed a three-day jury trial that began Monday morning, was announced by Jason R. Coody, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-A Lincoln City, Oregon man with multiple felony convictions was sentenced to federal prison today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine in and around Lincoln City and illegally possessing a firearm, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Scott Erik Asphaug.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Defendant took payments for bringing in drugs, iPhones, and tobacco products.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Statement from Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) following today’s meeting at the White House to discuss infrastructure...
By State Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
Release: The embassies of the United States and Taiwan in the Kingdom of Eswatini partnered with the Government of Eswatini to host a virtual Partnership Opportunity Delegation. The virtual delegation included business leaders from the United States and Taiwan who met with Eswatini Minister of Commerce Manqoba...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho - James (Ray) Pease was recently selected to lead the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Coeur d’Alene Field Office in northern Idaho. He will assume the Field Manager role in early April, succeeding Kurt Pavlat, who retired from the agency last spring.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Gage H. Clausen, 21, of Cheney, Kansas, has pleaded guilty to federal charges of violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), Interstate Communication of a Threat. Clausen previously communicated a threat via the internet on the life of a juvenile.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) announced that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas followed through on his commitment to finalize regulations that will enable Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) to fully implement their bipartisan Synthetics Trafficking & Overdose Prevention (STOP) Act.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
Release: To: State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory OfficialsEffective December 8, 2020, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) removed giant African land snail (GAS) regulated area, Zone AA, from the list of quarantine areas in Miami-Dade County, Florida. APHIS and the Florida Department ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kaylie Marie Jones, of Wallace, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 60 months of incarceration for a drug charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
