News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: Indianapolis - Acting U.S. Attorney John E. Childress announced today that Dorian LaCourse, 65, of Milford, Ohio, was indicted by a federal grand jury for his role in a scheme to use his position as Chief of Police for the Addyston Police Department in Addyston, Ohio, to help two federally licensed firearms ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - Bernard M. Jones, 35, has been sentenced to 132 months in federal prison for aggravated assault of a federal employee and discharge of a firearm. Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph C. Murphy Jr., announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A criminal complaint has been filed charging Jeffrey Dean Lecates, age 52, of Salisbury, Maryland, on the federal charges of being a felon in possession of ammunition and of dealing of firearms without a license. Lecates was arrested and had his initial appearance in U.S. District Court on March 24, 2021. He was ordered to be detained pending a detention hearing scheduled for March 31, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Lamar Middleton was sentenced to 33 months in prison for conspiring to launder drug-trafficking proceeds between 2017 and 2019, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: Community Vaccination Centers will Transition to Providing Johnson & Johnson Vaccines April 1
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
Release: I am disturbed that human rights defense lawyer Shahla Humbatova of Azerbaijan was disbarred from the Azerbaijani bar on the eve of International Women’s Day, a year after receiving the Secretary of State’s International Woman of Courage (IWOC) award. Her work, and the work of other human rights defenders in Azerbaijan, should be celebrated, not punished, and we call on those responsible to expedite her reinstatement to the Azerbaijani bar.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Mercer County pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of tax evasion, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - March 26, 2021.
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
Release: Thank you, Ambassador Lapenn. Let me first thank all of our convening partners for this event. And I want to thank all of the participants here today - from governments, multilateral organizations, civil society organizations, and the private sector - for the vital work you are doing on the Ebola response...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A COVID-19 vaccination site will be established at the Military Circle Mall in Norfolk, Va., on March 31, 2021. This vaccination site is a partnership between the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Health and Human Services (HHS), Virginia...
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
Release: The Department of State Antiterrorism Assistance Program (ATA) plans to facilitate the first-ever West Africa Joint Operations (WAJO) regional exercise in late March 2021, designed to connect counterterrorism investigators with their judicial counterparts in three nations.
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
Release: Thank you, Ambassador Lapenn. Let me first thank all of our convening partners for this event. And I want to thank all of the participants here today - from governments, multilateral organizations, civil society organizations, and the private sector - for the vital work you are doing on the Ebola response...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - After demanding a federal jury trial last year and having pled guilty to bank robbery before the completion of proof in the case, Arnold Eden, 54 has now been sentenced to 72 months in federal prison. Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph C. Murphy Jr., announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: Allegedly Inflated or Invented Fees or Taxes and Created Forged or Altered Settlement Documents, Bank Statements, and Checks.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - On March 24, 2021, United States District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo sentenced COREY JOHNSON, age 30, a resident of New Orleans, to 87 months in the Bureau of Prisons for conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute a quantity of heroin and cocaine base, in violation...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: LEAVENWORTH, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation today released the final environmental impact statement for the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery Surface Water Intake Fish Screens and Fish Passage Project. Reclamation analyzed the effects of construction activities to rehabilitate, replace, and modernize the hatchery's water intake and delivery system on Icicle Creek.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A repeat offender arrested during an investigation into the distribution of heroin in Middle Georgia entered a guilty plea in federal court this week, said Peter D. Leary, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Max Rookstool, 18, of Grand Island, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln by Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard for possession of child pornography. Rookstool was sentenced to 10 years in prison and will serve 12 years on supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: Fraud included over 220 Identity Theft Victims, More Than $1 Million in Fraudulently Obtained Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program Benefits, Six Fraudulent Car Loans, and an Attempted Fraudulent COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan Application.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A Sherman, Texas man was sentenced to federal prison today for drug trafficking and firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.
