News from May 2021
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - One resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: REGION I - In support of Massachusetts’ efforts to safely house residents during the pandemic, FEMA recently granted the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) $6,945,280 to reimburse operators of three Boston area shelters which undertook emergency actions to keep clients safe during the pandemic.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued this statement following her vote to establish an independent, bipartisan 9/11-type commission to examine the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Anton P. Bogdanov, a citizen of Russia, was sentenced by United States Chief District Judge Margo K. Brodie to 60 months’ imprisonment for wire fraud conspiracy and computer intrusions in connection with a scheme in which he and others hacked into private...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two New Jersey men were sentenced today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine in the Bayshore area of Monmouth and Middlesex counties, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: Oxford, Miss. - A Starkville physician was sentenced today to three years of probation for receiving misbranded drugs in interstate commerce and distributing them with the intent to defraud his patients. In addition to the term of probation, the defendant was ordered to forfeit $105,322.53, to pay a fine of $95,000 and to pay restitution in the amount of $377,545.20.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Lashawn T. Clayburn, 19, of Pine Lawn, Missouri, pleaded guilty to one count of carjacking resulting in death and one count of discharge of a firearm in furtherance of a carjacking resulting in death. Clayburn appeared, today, before United States District Court Henry E. Autrey.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Oversight and Reform Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), and Government Operations Subcommittee Chairman Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.) issued the following statements...
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: FAIRBANKS, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will celebrate American Hiking Society’s National Trails Day® and the 50th anniversary of the Pinnell Mountain National Recreation Trail with two volunteer trail projects June 5-6 and June 26. The public is invited to join BLM staff for one or multiple days to repair damaged sections of the trail near Eagle Summit on the Steese Highway.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Willie L. Hill, 47, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha for being a felon in possession of a firearm. United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Hill to a term of incarceration of 37 months. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from prison, he will begin a 3-year term of supervised release.
By Homeland Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Special agents from the Phoenix office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), with assistance from the Mesa Police Department (MPD) arrested an alleged child sexual predator on May 13. The defendant faces multiple counts of state child sexual exploitation.
By Homeland Newswire | May 19, 2021
Release: DALLAS, TX. - The Transportation Security Administration security checkpoint experience will look much different to passengers who have not flown since the start of the pandemic, and individuals flying out of Dallas Love Field Airport this spring and summer should be prepared for those changes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Donald Dougherty, 55, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to two years in prison, one year of supervised release, and was ordered to pay approximately $358,000 in restitution and a $125,000 fine by United States District Judge Michael M. Baylson for filing a false income tax return and theft from an employee benefit plan.
By Homeland Newswire | May 19, 2021
Release: RENO, Nevada - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is hiring Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) to work at Reno-Tahoe International Airport (RNO). There are 15 full-time and 15 part-time positions currently available at RNO. Starting salary is $16.51 per hour.
By State Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Representatives Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Albio Sires, Chair of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Michael McCaul, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican, and Mark Green, Ranking Member of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee,...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on May 18, 2021, a federal grand jury handed down an indictment alleging that Joshua A. Gama (age: 35) of Bridgeton, Missouri, distributed child pornography in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252A(a)(2)(A).
By DOL Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee Burgess Owens (R-UT) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a hearing on supporting students experiencing foster care and homelessness...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Tony Davis pleaded guilty in federal court today, admitting that he supplied fentanyl that led to the fatal overdose of Jacqueline Galvan, a 41-year-old San Diego woman, on Oct. 24, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: 80 pounds of meth stored at one defendant’s residence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, MD - A criminal complaint has been filed charging the manager of a pain clinic, her boyfriend, and several customers with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, including oxycodone and oxymorphone. The defendants charged in the criminal complaint are...
