News from March 2021
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: YAKIMA, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation's March 2021 total water supply available forecast for the Yakima basin indicates the water supply will satisfy all senior and junior water rights this irrigation season.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) reminds importers, brokers, and filers that the second and final phase of the APHIS Core Message Set rollout will begin on March 15, 2021. Starting on this date, APHIS will fully enforce APHIS Core Message ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: I am excited about the Subcommittee’s achievements in the previous Congress and look forward to continuing our work to make sure our trade policy supports all American workers, consumers, farmers, communities, and businesses. The topic of today’s hearing is critical to that effort.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Chairwoman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight, announced they have secured additional resources to support firefighters and emergency management in the comprehensive COVID-19 relief package that they voted to advance today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - Two Fayetteville residents were arrested on charges within an Indictment returned by a federal grand jury and relating to violations of conspiracy to smuggle, transport and harbor aliens for commercial advantage or private financial gain, conspiracy to commit forced labor, and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JONATHAN TORRES, also known as “U-Haul" and “Fats," 30, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson to 88 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for fentanyl distribution and gun possession offenses, and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: SELLS, Ariz. - A Tohono O’odham Nation member and active firefighter was one of two people arrested Monday for operating a methamphetamine lab at a mobile-home located in the remote area of the Village of Santa Rosa following a probe by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and federal officers with the Native American Targeted Investigations of Violent Enterprises (NATIVE) Taskforce.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Thomas Barber has sentenced Devon Cohen (33, Tampa) to five years in federal prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. The court also ordered Cohen to forfeit the firearm and ammunition.
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 Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), as Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee, delivered opening remarks at the hearing on two Office of Management and Budget (OMB) nominations, Shalanda Young to be Deputy Director and Jason S. Miller to be...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Union County Fiscal Court, Morganfield, Kentucky, to make sanitary sewer infrastructure improvements needed to support business and job growth...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - The United States Attorney, Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that on Wednesday, March 3, 2021, Chief Judge Wilma Lewis sentenced Delroy Thomas, 30, of St. Croix, to 120 months in prison, a $3,000 fine, three years of supervised release and a $100 special assessment for the federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - The United States Attorney, Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that on Wednesday, March 3, 2021, Chief Judge Wilma Lewis sentenced Delroy Thomas, 30, of St. Croix, to 120 months in prison, a $3,000 fine, three years of supervised release and a $100 special assessment for the federal...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - In a joint effort, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Feb. 9 seized $14.7 million in counterfeit electronics devices, toys and furniture infringing on multiple CBP-registered trademarks at the World Trade Bridge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On March 3, 2021, a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Jorge Luis Hernández Flores and Martires Andrés Encarnación Castro with possessing firearms while being unlawfully in the United States, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Like many U.S. research and development agencies, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) was forced to shift priorities almost overnight due to the COVID-19 pandemic. From the start, researchers at S&T’s National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury today returned an indictment charging Travis Joseph Crawford, age 33, of Edgewood, Maryland, for production and possession of child pornography and for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: The Defendants Allegedly Targeted Apartment Complexes in North and South Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CHRISTOPHER BLACKSTONE (“BLACKSTONE"), JOSEPH CAMPO (“CAMPO"), and MARIO DELUCA (“DELUCA") have each pled guilty in federal court relating to their roles in a health care fraud conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: US Park Rangers of Lake Mead National Recreation Area and Special Agents with the National Park Service Investigative Services Branch (ISB) are investigating a domestic violence incident that occurred on July 25, 2020.
