News from May 2021
By Interior Newswire | May 6, 2021
News Release: Liberty & Ellis Islands, NY/NJ - Due to the extended impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on visitation and the resultant changes to the conditions upon which the business opportunity described in the solicitation was based, the National Park Service (NPS) has canceled the concession contract solicitation for food and beverage and retail services at the Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island (CC-STLI004-20).
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Moises Alexis Reyes-Canales, a/k/a Sicopita, age 23, of Annapolis, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise and to using, carrying, and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, in connection with his MS-13 gang activities, including a murder and two attempted murders.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Quincy man was arrested on May 3, 2021 and charged with receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Camdenton, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine in southwest Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2021
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - - Jared Collins (27, Wesley Chapel) has pleaded guilty to distributing fentanyl to an individual, resulting in that individual’s death. He faces a minimum mandatory sentence of 20 years, and up to life, in federal prison. A sentencing hearing has not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A California man was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for his role in a drug distribution conspiracy connected to the seizure of fentanyl and heroin at a New Jersey rest stop last year, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2021
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart stated today that a Federal Grand Jury has returned a 17-count indictment charging Earl Wayne Ravenell, 46, of Summerville, for preparing false income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for being a felon in possession of two firearms, and for distributing heroin and cocaine base, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 6, 2021
News Release: All visitors planning to overnight on any rock climbing routes in Yosemite National Park will be required to obtain an overnight wilderness climbing permit beginning on May 21, 2021. This pilot program is being implemented to better understand how park visitors use Yosemite’s big walls and to help improve climbing wilderness ethics and reduce negative human impacts associated with overnight big wall use.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2021
News Release: DETROIT - A Novi man was charged in a criminal complaint with aggravated identity theft, mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering in a scheme to defraud the State of Michigan’s (SOM) Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA), announced Acting United States Attorney Saima Mohsin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2021
News Release: LYNCHBURG, Va. - A Forest, Virginia, man, who owned and operated Lighthouse Properties of Virginia Inc., [LHP], pleaded guilty yesterday in connection with an embezzlement scheme in excess of $550,000.
By Homeland Newswire | May 6, 2021
Release: Congressman Matt Cartwright (D-PA), Chairman of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Request for The Department of Commerce.
By State Newswire | May 6, 2021
Release: MS KVIEN: Hello. Good afternoon, everyone. I’m Kristina Kvien. I’m the charge d’affaires here at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv. And it is my enormous pleasure to have with me today our Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
By Homeland Newswire | May 6, 2021
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - FEMA has approved a grant of $1,461,450 for the State of Florida to help Miami-Dade County defray the cost of repairs to the Venetian Causeway after Hurricane Irma in 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | May 6, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) opened today’s House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on “America’s Black Maternal Health Crisis" by emphasizing maternal mortality in America is unacceptable and must be addressed.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2021
News Release: An Allen Park resident was arrested today in connection with a federal criminal complaint charging him with obtaining unemployment benefits authorized by the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act by means of false and fraudulent pretenses and representations, by using the personally identifiable information of others that he had unlawfully obtained, announced Acting United States Attorney Saima S. Mohsin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Tuesday, May 4, 2021, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Chad Michael Oxley, age 38, of Davenport, to 144 months in prison for Receiving Child Pornography announced Acting United States Attorney Richard D. Westphal. Oxley was ordered to serve seven years of supervised release to follow his prison term as well as pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund and $9,000.00 to the victims of his crime.
By Homeland Newswire | May 6, 2021
Release: Congressman Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Chair of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on USDA Rural Development Mission Area.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Four Union County, New Jersey, men were charged for their roles in conspiracies to distribute and possess with intent to distribute narcotics, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig and Acting Union County Prosecutor Lyndsay V. Ruotolo announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2021
News Release: An Arlington mother-son duo who shipped methamphetamine through the U.S. Mail has been sentenced to a combined 18 years in federal prison, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Prerak Shah.
