News from May 2021
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: EL PASO - A federal judge today sentenced 25-year-old El Paso resident Javier Ivan Rubio Morales to 30 years in federal prison for production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man pleaded guilty on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 in federal court in Boston in connection with his illegal possession of ammunition.
By Commerce Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $620,000 grant to the city of Santa Cruz, California, to make critical infrastructure improvements needed to expand usable business space in the city. This EDA grant, to be matched with $155,000 in local investment, is expected to create 75 jobs and generate $6 million in private investment.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to ten years of imprisonment followed by four years of supervised release for his conviction for charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to four years of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction of violating federal firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Michigan State Police, Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division announced today that $16,391,100 in federal funding has been made available to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services for costs related to their COVID-19 response under the federal disaster declaration of March 27, 2020.
By Homeland Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Norfolk, Virginia - FEMA will be departing from the Military Circle Mall Community Vaccination Center site on May 22, 2021 and handing operations over to the Virginia Department of Health. Since the center has opened the vaccination team has administered more than 80,000 doses of vaccine. One of the...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Two Camden County, New Jersey, residents were charged for their role in fraudulently obtaining federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) totaling $1.4 million, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office reached an agreement today with New England Orthopedic Surgeons (NEOS) in Springfield, Mass. to resolve allegations that the practice violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by turning away patients who were also being treated for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD).
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Thurmont, Md. - Due to increased security measures, portions of Catoctin Mountain Park will be closed at approximately 6 a.m. on Saturday, May 22. Closures are scheduled to continue through approximately 8 p.m. on Sunday, May 23, 2021.
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The United States Park Police (USPP) Chief Pamela Smith is in San Francisco to oversee the implementation of the body-worn camera program for officers assigned to the San Francisco Field Office. All officers will be equipped with body-worn cameras starting May 23, 2021. By the end of the calendar year, every USPP officer with public-facing contact at the rank of captain and below will be assigned a body-worn camera.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: East St. Louis, Ill. - A Collinsville man pled guilty today to a Federal Grand Jury Indictment charging him with distributing methamphetamine in East St. Louis, Illinois.
By Homeland Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor in support of H.R. 3237, the Emergency Security Supplemental to Respond to January 6th.
By State Newswire | May 20, 2021
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, thank you very much, and I recognize that we’re the only thing standing between us and the signing ceremony, so we’ll try to be brief.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Continued to deal even after contact with law enforcement.
By DOL Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Following a briefing from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Education and Labor Committee Republican Members, led by Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Department of Health and Human Services ...
By State Newswire | May 20, 2021
Release: Today, we recognize the strength and diversity of the Cuban people and their many contributions to the world.
By Commerce Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In honor of Endangered Species Day on May 21, Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today introduced their respective versions of the Extinction Prevention Act of 2021, which provides much-needed funding for some of the most imperiled wildlife species...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Mississippi - Lon Edward Preston, Jr., of Harrison County, Mississippi pleaded guilty today to knowingly possessing a firearm after having been previously been committed to a mental institution, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca of the Southern District of Mississippi and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF".)
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: SEATTLE - A 34-year-old resident of Puyallup, Washington, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to possession of heroin and methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Defendant Jeremy Gongas faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison when sentenced by U.S. District Judge Benjamin H. Settle on Sept. 13, 2021.
