News from November 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $500,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the county of Medina, Texas, to improve broadband access.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Juan Aguirre, 30, of Albuquerque, appeared in federal court on Nov. 17 on charges of carjacking, attempted carjacking and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Aguirre will remain in custody pending a detention hearing scheduled for Nov. 19.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Event Includes a Live Demonstration of the Upgraded Facility, Highlighting Broadcast Radio’s Critical Role in Nation’s Emergency Alert and Warning System
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today the unsealing of the indictment of EMMANUEL UGBAJA (“UGBAJA"), age 53, of Duluth, Georgia. UGBAJA was charged in a three-count federal indictment with one (1) count of Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1956 and two (2) counts of Money Laundering in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1957.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Jesus Lepe, 44, of Fresno, charging him with two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Greenbelt, Md., - Edwin Kerry Smith, age 43, of Silver Spring, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance and admitted that heroin he distributed to one victim resulted in the victim’s fatal overdose.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Nov. 16, 2021, Keith Parson, age 49, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for drug trafficking offenses.
By Savannah Howe | Nov 18, 2021
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department reports that freshwater mussels are one of the most at-risk types of animal in all of the U.S., and six more species have reached critically low population numbers in Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: $125,000 Awarded to Law Enforcement Agency in the District of Delaware.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Bernardino County man was sentenced today to 36 months in federal prison for operating an unlicensed business that exchanged at least $13 million in Bitcoin and cash, often for drug traffickers.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Austin Hack, 24, of Lafayette, has been sentenced by United States District Judge Michael J. Juneau to 26 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, on firearms charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.1 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Board of Control for Southern Regional Education to develop local food supply chains in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Chair of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and Committee Member Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz sent a letter to the President of the University of Florida (UF) requesting information about the university’s conflicts-of-interest policies following concerning reports that UF has prevented professors from exercising their First Amendment rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Jose Luis Santana, 43, of Shafter, charging him with possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and heroin, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice today announced more than $139 million in grant funding through the department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring Program (CHP). The awards provide direct funding to 183 law enforcement agencies across the nation, allowing those agencies to hire 1,066 additional full-time law enforcement professionals. In the Northern District of Iowa, two cities were awarded funding totaling $250,000.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: NEWS RELEASE. Aliante Trailhead Parking Now Open at Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument. Date: Nov. 13, 2021. National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. TULE SPRINGS FOSSIL BEDS NATIONAL MONUMENT News Release. Nov. 13, 2021. Release No.: 2021-05. Contact: tusk_information@nps.gov...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Michael J. McClure, 44, of DeFuniak Springs, and Jeffrey W. Boone, Jr., 32, of Shalimar, pled guilty this past week to federal charges related to the production and distribution of child pornography, announced Jason R. Coody, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. Though the two cases are similar in nature, the federal indictments were independently handed down by a grand jury in Pensacola earlier this year.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on the Environment Ranking Member Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) released the following statements after sending a letter to Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney requesting Democrats convene a hearing with White...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERTO MUNIZ, 37, of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, was sentenced today via videoconference by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine from Puerto Rico to Connecticut through the U.S. Mail.
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
Release: State-sponsored actors, including Iranian groups, have engaged in covert and deceptive activities to disseminate disinformation through websites and social media designed to undermine Americans’ faith in U.S. elections.
