News from November 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - Fifty-one-year-old Kevin Dewayne Kirby was sentenced yesterday in federal district court in Ft. Lauderdale to 57 months in federal prison for laundering over $500,000 connected to two wire fraud scams.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
Release: The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, in partnership with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), opened two newly constructed 50,000-square-foot security checkpoint buildings Tuesday at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Russell Ramseur, age 44, of Largo, Maryland, to seven years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute at least one kilogram of heroin and for possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: Defendant Assembled Illegal Firearms for Mexican Cartels.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced that Zachary John Kennedy, a/k/a “Zeus" of Muskegon, Michigan, was sentenced to 210 months’ imprisonment, followed by five years’ supervised release, by U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Yellowstone National Park asks for public comment on revised Commercial Use Authorization (CUA) and service-related operating plans that will guide commercial services in the park for the next five years.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation today announced the completed contract negotiation between the United States and the Orland Unit Water Users Association for the repayment of costs expended for Safety of Dams modifications on Stony Gorge in Glenn County in Northern California.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - A San Antonio man was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jay A. Liestman, 49, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James Peterson to 15 years in federal prison for transporting child pornography. This term of imprisonment will be followed by 20 years of supervised release. Liestman pleaded guilty to this charge on April 2, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: DNA evidence tied defendant’s poaching ring to ten stolen maple “music wood" trees.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to trafficking fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Acting U.S. Attorney William T. Stetzer announced today that Dallas Devon Leak, 28, of Wadesboro, N.C. was sentenced to 100 months in prison and two years of supervised release for a federal firearms offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Fredrick Morgan, II, 42 years old, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, and fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA -Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Kyle McLemore, 44, of Philadelphia, PA, was arrested and charged by Indictment with one count of mail fraud and two counts of theft of public money. In February 1999, the defendant was convicted on state charges of...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - A Marion, Virginia man pleaded guilty last week to possession with the intent to distribute the deadly drug fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Beckley man pleaded guilty to a federal gun crime.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: ALPINE, Texas - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents arrested a Las Cruces, New Mexico, man Tuesday in Brewster (Texas) County on federal criminal charges related to his alleged involvement in human smuggling.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The Department of Justice filed an agreement today in Newark federal court to resolve its lawsuit against the Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation (PATH) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: Biggest Criminal Fraud Scheme in the History of the Eastern District of California.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entered into a stipulation agreement with O’Neill Livestock Inc. (O’Neill) of Neoga, Ill., on Sept. 16, 2021, for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act. Under the terms of the stipulation agreement, O’Neill waived its rights to a hearing and was fined a civil penalty of $1,250.
