News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man today admitted filing 18 fraudulent tax returns in victims’ names to obtain tax refunds to which he was not entitled, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 27-year-old Mexican citizen has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction for attempting to import approximately 23 kilograms of meth, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By State Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - DEA Acting Administrator D. Christopher Evans today announced the release of the National Drug Threat Assessment, DEA’s annual publication outlining the threats posed to the United States by domestic and international drug trafficking and the abuse of illicit drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: BOISE - Robert William Havery, 40, of Boise, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 180 months in federal prison for transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and receipt of child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr. announced today. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered Havery to serve five years of supervised release following his prison sentence. Havery pleaded guilty to the charge on June 29, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that RICHARD SCHIRRIPA pled guilty to making materially false statements to officers of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"). On two occasions in 2020, SCHIRRIPA falsely represented that, as part...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today selected five host airports to evaluate technologies and systems that could detect and mitigate potential safety risks posed by unmanned aircraft. The effort is part of the agency’s Airport Unmanned Aircraft Systems Detection and Mitigation Research Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The manager of a Jersey City jewelry store today admitted lying to federal agents during an investigation into a fraud conspiracy, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By State Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the updated schedule for the month of March.
By State Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:.
By State Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) is testing a new mobile ventilation system that will protect workers while they decontaminate former plutonium processing facilities on the Hanford Site ’s Central Plateau.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: An inmate at the Camden County Detention Facility has admitted providing the drugs resulting in another inmate’s death by overdose.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced today that Briarwood Recreation, Inc., d/b/a Briarwood Day Camp (“Briarwood"), located in Furlong, PA, resolved allegations that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by denying a child the opportunity to participate in summer day camp programs because of his Type 1 diabetes (also known as insulin dependent diabetes).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Mark Allen Craig, II, of Lumberport, West Virginia, was indicted today on a firearms charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man who pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Feb. 16, 2021, by U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - Sentencing has been scheduled in June for a wastewater utilities official, Richard G. Simms, who pleaded guilty to defrauding Kankakee’s wastewater utilities, Kankakee River Metropolitan Agency (KRMA) and the city’s Environmental Service Utility (ESU), of more than $2 million. Simms, 73, currently of Marietta, Ohio, entered his guilty plea on March 1, by video conference, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Eric I. Long.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - March 2, 2021 - A criminal complaint was unsealed this morning charging a Springfield, Tennessee man with attempted enticement of a minor; attempted production of visual depictions of minors engaging in sexual activity; and transfer of obscene matter to a minor, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Mary Jane Stewart for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and contractor UCOR are attributing acceleration of several cleanup projects to a new regulatory partnership framework that marked its first anniversary in February.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge today sentenced a Tennessee man for possession with the intent to distribute cocaine and heroin, and possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and DEA Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley.
