News from November 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man was sentenced today to seven years and six months in prison for his involvement in distributing fentanyl in 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - A Council Bluffs man, Domingo Ace Vasquez, III, age 42, was sentenced on Nov. 19, 2021, by United States District Court Senior Judge Robert W. Pratt to forty-two months in prison for Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm. His term of imprisonment is to be followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge in Chicago has sentenced a man to a year in prison for manufacturing and selling a purported weight-loss product containing the unapproved additive 2,4-Dinitrophenol, known as DNP.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: FAIRBANKS - A Fairbanks man was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison and three years of supervised release by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Ralph R. Beistline for stalking and attempting to arrange a murder for hire.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - Cowan Hill, 44, has been sentenced to 151 months in federal prison for carjacking’s and for brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph C. Murphy Jr., announced the sentence today.
By Press release submission | Nov 22, 2021
A Passaic County, New Jersey, man was charged for illegally possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug distribution, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA -Lucio Javier Escobedo Fernandez, a Mexican national, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By Glenn Minnis | Nov 22, 2021
A federal court in Florida has ordered a Tampa-area pharmacy shuttered after the government alleged that opioids were repeatedly distributed there in violation of the Controlled Substances Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Stephen M. Alford, 62, of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, pled guilty today to one count of wire fraud related to his attempt to illegally obtain $25 million, purportedly in exchange for securing a Presidential Pardon. The plea was announced by Jason R. Coody, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: From hundreds of feet in the desert air, the birds’-eye view of a drone can read the letters on a technician’s T-shirt - and after receiving the drone’s survey data, so can the scientists who sit hundreds of miles away at the Department of Energy (DOE) Legacy Management Office’s (LM) office in Grand Junction, Colorado.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the investment of $32 million in grants awarded to 167 meat and poultry slaughter and processing facilities to support expanded capacity and efficiency through the Meat and Poultry Inspection Readiness Grant (MPIRG) program.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: Newly unsealed indictment targets 24 defendants for human trafficking.
By Press release submission | Nov 22, 2021
Nnamdi Marcellus MgBodile has been sentenced to prison for bank fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit bank fraud after being convicted at trial. For years, MgBodile opened and directed others to open fraudulent business bank accounts that received millions of dollars from various online frauds.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - An eastern South Dakota man pleaded not guilty Nov. 22, to charges of his being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: A 9-month-old Child, and Three Adult Victims Overdosed on Fentanyl and Heroin Distributed by the Trimmer and His Girlfriend.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber has sentenced Richard James Bassett, Jr. (47, Fort Myers) to 18 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and for violating the conditions of supervised release from a prior federal drug conviction. Bassett had pleaded guilty on July 16, 2021.
By Press release submission | Nov 22, 2021
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Responsible Appliance Disposal (RAD) Program celebrated its 15th anniversary and recognized partners during its second annual RAD Leadership Awards Ceremony.
By Press release submission | Nov 22, 2021
120 teams from 105 universities competed to test their cyber defense skills and protect a hydropower company from simulated cyber challenges.
By Press release submission | Nov 22, 2021
Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo issued the following statement following House passage of President Biden’s Build Back Better Act:
