News from November 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A former Kansas City-area man, who claimed self-defense after fatally shooting another man during a drug deal, was sentenced in federal court today for drug trafficking and for illegally possessing 52 firearms he stole from a local pawn shop.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a Wakpala, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) has awarded a subcontract worth about $3.3 million to Kennewick, Washington-based Apollo Mechanical to advance important risk-reduction work at the Reduction-Oxidation Plant (REDOX ), a contaminated former plutonium processing facility on the Hanford Site’s Central Plateau.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
Release: On Nov. 15, 2021, the government of Vietnam issued Decree 101/2021/ND-CP, revising its most-favored nation (MFN) tariff rates for corn, wheat and frozen pork. The decree eliminates the MFN tariff on all classes of wheat, lowers the duty on corn from five percent to two percent, and lowers the duty on frozen pork from 15 percent to 10 percent.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Tanner Joel Hernandez-Fields, 21, of Fresno, pleaded guilty Monday to receipt and distribution of child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) continues to make the interdiction of wildlife trafficking a global priority by protecting wildlife from poachers and the transnational criminal organizations who profit from illegal trade. Most recently, ...
By State Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - An Aurora, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing firearms after leading law enforcement officers on a high-speed chase from Bolivar, Mo., to Springfield, Mo.
By State Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
Release: I look forward to deepening our cooperation to promote economic prosperity, security, human rights, and democracy in the region.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment charging CHRISTOPHER MICHAELSON, 37, of Guilford, with receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Laquan De’Shay Jones (23, Apopka) to seven years in federal prison for possessing fentanyl with the intent to distribute it and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The court also ordered Jones to forfeit the firearm and ammunition that he was carrying as part of the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Mercer County, New Jersey, man with six prior felony convictions was sentenced today to 100 months in prison for firearms and distribution of controlled substances offenses, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By State Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Background. Under the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) of 1998, the President is required to annually review the status of religious freedom in every country in the world and designate each country the government of which has engaged in or tolerated “particularly severe violations of religious...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Kiara Haynes, age 36, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to two counts of aiding and abetting the use and discharge of a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime and crime of violence, causing the death of Jennifer Jeffrey and her seven-year-old child. Haynes has been detained since her arrest in Texas on June 18, 2021, on a related federal criminal complaint.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Three women from South Florida have been sentenced to federal prison for participating in a scheme that defrauded the California Employment Development Department (EDD) by filing fraudulent claims for unemployment benefits in the names of California identity theft victims, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Two Jamaican citizens who participated in lottery scams that defrauded U.S citizens, primarily senior citizens in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and several other states, of more than a half-million dollars, have been sentenced to federal prison, announced Acting United States Attorney Richard B. Myrus.
By Press Release | Nov 16, 2021
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a consent decision against Kenneth Mezurek, doing business as Mezurek Livestock (Mezurek) of Grafton, Ohio, on Oct. 26, 2021, for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By State Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
Release: Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights Uzra Zeya will travel to Belgium and Lithuania from November 17-20, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Duquesne, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 66 months’ imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release on his conviction for narcotics trafficking and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Blanca Quintero (619) 546-7118 and Vivian Sapthavee (619) 546-7696.
