News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Three men appeared in U.S. District Court in Huntington today and pleaded guilty to federal drug crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that John Tyler Pla, 25, and Johnny Lee Palmer, 26, both of Tampa, Florida, pleaded guilty to operating a “Grandparent Scam" in the Northern District of Ohio that caused their victims a combined loss of $383,932. Pla and Palmer both entered pleas of guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Wendy C. Woolcock, the Special Agent in Charge of the Special Operations Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), announced today that JUAN MANUEL AVILA MEZA, a former member of the Honduran National...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy is excited to announce the opening of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon ® Virtual Village on Monday, April 12.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK -Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Adolfo LaCola was sentenced by United States Chief District Court Judge Margo K. Brodie to 48 months in prison for his participation in a narcotics distribution conspiracy and money laundering. LaCola pleaded guilty to the charges in September 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a Lake Andes, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Receipt and Distribution of Child Pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia residents will soon have a second city managed and state and federally supported Community Vaccination Center (CVC) where they can receive the lifesaving COVID-19 vaccine. This site will be in the Hunting Park neighborhood of Philadelphia at Esperanza, Inc. located at 5th...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Addison Paige Clark, age 30, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release for Involuntary Manslaughter In Indian Country, in violation...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: Jemez Springs, NM - The National Park Service (NPS) plans prescribed fires in the southwest corner of Valles Caldera National Preserve this spring to reduce hazardous fuels, improve wildlife habitat, and create healthier forest and watershed ecosystems.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C. - Last Friday, in a previously unannounced move, Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) introduced a bipartisan resolution with Rep. Gregorio Sablan (D-CNMI), Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-USVI), Rep. Michael San Nicolas (D-Guam), Rep. Jenniffer González-Colon (R-P.R.)...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: While Claiming Disability, Postal Carrier Received Compensation for Variety of Jobs, Including as a Snow Plow Driver, Plumber, and Field Supervisor for a Home Improvement Company.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Owen Hughes, the sole proprietor of Eon Research Corporation in Davis, agreed to pay the United States $635,000 to resolve allegations that he knowingly submitted false statements to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to secure Small Business Innovation Research grant funds, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By State Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
Release: MR PRICE: Good afternoon, everyone. I apologize we’re running a couple minutes late here but thank you for joining us as we discuss tomorrow’s virtual meeting of the foreign ministers of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Small Group. The meeting, as you know, will be co-hosted by Secretary Blinken and his Belgian counterpart, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sophie Wilmes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: Topeka, KS - For 10 days in March, the U.S. Marshals and Topeka Police, working with multiple federal, state and local law enforcement partners, conducted an operation designed to reduce violent crime and drug activity in and around Topeka, resulting in 258 arrests.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - On Monday, March, 29, Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed an Colombian crime syndicate leader sentenced to prison in connection with his role in a conspiracy to invest the proceeds from the sale of hundreds of kilograms of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of N.Y. Announces Expansion of the Office’s Civil Rights Section in the Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Jason Brian Goff (45, Starke) to 20 years in federal prison for the attempted use of children to produce sexually explicit videos. Goff was also ordered to serve a 10-year term of supervised release and to register as a sex offender. Goff was arrested on Sept. 13, 2019, and has been detained since that date.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York Division announced today that that Bruno J. Haney, II, 32, of Lockport, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, heroin, fentanyl, and butyryl fentanyl. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and $1,000,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area may implement the following prescribed fires during the spring of 2021.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
Release: APPLETON, WI - Residents of east-central Wisconsin will be able to enroll in the Transportation Security Administration’s popular TSA PreCheck® program at Appleton International Airport (ATW) April 19-23.
