News from November 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2021
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina partnered with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), Federal Bureau of Investigation Safe Streets Unit (FBI), Wilmington Police Department’s Gang and Narcotics Units, the New Hanover...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Black Hawk, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Criminal Contempt.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 12, 2021
News Release: DURANGO, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation invites members of the press and public to a virtual meeting where negotiations will continue for a transferred works contract with the Navajo Nation and the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority for operational, maintenance, and replacement of federally-owned Cutter Lateral features of the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project, located near Bloomfield, New Mexico.
By State Newswire | Nov 12, 2021
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2021
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Debby Dutton appeared today in federal court in Houston, Texas, to face the charge filed in San Francisco federal court of interference with an aircraft flight by assault upon a flight attendant, announced Acting United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2021
News Release: A Mexican national was extradited from Brazil to the United States on Nov. 10 to face international drug trafficking charges. Jose Gonzalez-Valencia, aka Jafett Arias-Becerra, aka La Chepa, aka Camaron, and aka Santy, 46, arrived in the United States on Wednesday and made his initial court appearance yesterday in Washington, D.C. Superior Court. He is detained pending his appearance on Friday afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robin M. Meriweather in D.C. District Court.
By David Beasley | Nov 12, 2021
The recent trade agreement between the United States and the European Union is "being praised by both sides" and by businesses, the workforce, and environmentalists, the U.S. Commerce Department said in a statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2021
News Release: Cleveland, OH - On Friday July 11, 1969, Theodore John Conrad walked into his job at the Society National Bank at 127 Public Square in Cleveland as an ordinary bank teller. He walked out at the end of the day with $215,000 (equivalent to over $1.7 million in 2021) in a paper bag and vanished. Conrad, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2021
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A federal grand jury in Beaumont has returned a three-count indictment charging nine individuals in drug trafficking conspiracy in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Felon in Possession of a Firearm was sentenced on November 4, 2021, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2021
News Release: FORT WAYNE -United States District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty sentenced a fourth member of “2500," a Fort Wayne street gang, for committing violent crimes in aid of racketeering, announced United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson. These charged violent crimes were committed during 2500’s “beef," or ongoing dispute, with a rival Fort Wayne street gang. In committing these crimes, 2500 members were assisted by “Grit Gang," a street gang based in Bloomington, Indiana.
By State Newswire | Nov 12, 2021
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Trina Thomas | Nov 12, 2021
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Oct. 29 announced the recent award of $360,000 that they had given to the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) invites the public to comment on a Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for Huntsville International Airport (HSV) to serve as a reentry site for horizontally landed commercial reentry vehicles. The Draft EA also addresses a proposal by Sierra Space Corporation to land its Dream Chaser vehicle at the site up to eight times between 2023 and 2027.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 12, 2021
News Release: Brady: Democrats’ Tax Rates Punish Job Creators in America.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2021
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Diego Fernando Cardona Lozano (46, Cali, Colombia), also known as “El Doctor" and “Pomada," to 17 years and 6 months in federal prison for conspiring to import cocaine into the United States and conspiring to commit international money laundering. The court also ordered Cardona Lozano to forfeit approximately $1.4 million, which are traceable to proceeds of the offense.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 12, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that David Lopez, doing business as Texas Best Produce, satisfied a reparation order in the amount of $47,880 issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) involving unpaid produce transactions.
By Glenn Minnis | Nov 12, 2021
Penske Logistics LLC has been bestowed with a SmartWay Excellence Award from the Environmental Protection Agency as “a true industry leader in freight supply chain environmental performance and energy efficiency.”
By Interior Newswire | Nov 12, 2021
News Release: KANAB, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management Kanab Field Office will transition to a winter schedule for the Coyote Buttes North (The Wave) and Coyote Buttes South in-person lotteries beginning Nov. 19, 2021. As such, weekend and Monday permits will be issued on the preceding Friday at 8:30 a.m. MST. The lottery location takes place at the Kanab Center, 180 East 100 North, Kanab, Utah 84741. Lottery parking is located at the rear, east-end of the building.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - With health care providers facing financial uncertainty in the wake of the COVID pandemic, Ways and Means Republicans are calling on Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) to hold a hearing to examine payment changes that could impact health care professionals and patients’ access to care.
