News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Sean P. Costello of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Tiffany Lynn Snider, 32, of Foley, Alabama, was sentenced today for her participation in an organization which distributed substantial amounts of methamphetamine ice in Baldwin County during 2017 through 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON - Approximately 50 members of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workforce are augmenting the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) pandemic response and volunteering to assist at various community vaccination centers.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that RODRICK DOW CRAYTHORN, 52, of Syracuse, Utah, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl, for excavating and damaging archeological resources in the cemetery of the Fort Yellowstone National Historic Landmark in...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lexington man pled guilty Tuesday, to charges of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and filing false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - James Jackson, 35, of Lebanon, pleaded guilty in federal court to possession of ammunition by a prohibited person, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: Continued to Engage in Fraud Schemes After His Arrest and Release from Custody Last Year; White Obtained CARES Act Benefits in the Names of Maryland Victims.
By State Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
Release: Consistent with sections 205 and 301 of the United States-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992 (the “Act") (22 U.S.C. 5725 and 5731) and section 7043(f)(3)(C) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2021 (Div. K, P.L. 116-260), the Department submits this report and the enclosed certification on conditions in Hong Kong from June 2020 through February 2021 (“covered period").
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On March 23, 2021, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment charging 56 violent gang members from the municipalities of San Juan, Carolina and Trujillo Alto, with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, possession with intent to distribute...
By State Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
Release: We are pleased to announce that the United States received the $335 million provided by Sudan to compensate victims of the 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the USS Cole in 2000 as well as the 2008 killing of USAID employee John Granville.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A former member of the New Bedford Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") pleaded guilty yesterday to racketeering and drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On Wednesday, March 25, 2021, United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger sentenced Rachel Ann Danielson, age 42, of St. Paul, Minnesota, to 144 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine announced acting United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Sean P. Costello of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Jose Alberto Seguy, 24, of Brownsville, Texas, was sentenced today for his participation in the transportation of approximately 32 kilograms of methamphetamine ice and five kilograms of heroin from Texas to Atlanta...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: This afternoon, a 33-year-old male from Denver, Colorado took an approximate 50-foot fall near Many Parks Curve along Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park. The fall occurred on a rock outcropping between the upper and lower parking areas at Many Parks Curve. The man’s body was transferred to the Larimer County Coroner’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States District Judge Wendy W. Berger today sentenced Joaquin Nabi Olsson (46, Stockholm, Sweden) to 15 years and 8 months in federal prison for using the internet and social media to entice and persuade a minor to engage in sexual activity. Olsson was also ordered to serve a 5-year term of supervised release and was ordered to register as a sex offender. He was arrested on July 20, 2019, and has been detained since his arrest.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the historic investment in home- and community-based services for people with disabilities and older Americans-and the workers who provide this care-included in President Biden’s American Jobs Plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Aaron Acevedo, 27, of Syracuse, New York pled guilty in federal court today to possessing with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon, Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New York Division, and Chief Kenton Buckner, City of Syracuse Police Department.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK - A Long Island superstructure, foundation and concrete company will pay $135,612 in penalties stemming from the collapse of an approximately 30-foot deep trench in Oyster Bay that led to the deaths of two workers.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: Norfolk, Virginia - Today, Governor Ralph Northam visited the FEMA-supported Community Vaccination Center located at the Military Circle Mall to announce the official opening of the mass vaccination site. Together with the Virginia Department Emergency Management, the Virginia Department of Health, volunteer organizations and 135 sailors, the goal is to vaccinate about 3,000 residents a day from the Hampton Roads area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Multiple death threats, including repeated threats to FBI agents and a former United States Attorney, earned a Dewitt man 40 years in federal prison. Clayton Jackson, 35, whose legal address is in Minnesota but who was living in Dewitt when the original threats were made, received the 480-month sentence from United States District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright on Wednesday.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) joined U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) andGov. Kristi Noem to learn about the natural resources issues facing South Dakota.
