News from October 2021
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Buffalo Field Office plans to burn slash piles this fall and winter on BLM-administered lands in the Bighorn Mountains and Campbell County.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: A Tulsa man pleaded guilty Friday to taking part in an attempted robbery and home invasion that ended in the deaths of his accomplice and the resident, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: Defendant Apprehended and Prosecuted as Part of “Operation Black Sails," A Coordinated Drug Investigation of Federal, Local, and Guatemalan Law Enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Ralph St. Croix, a.k.a. “Stretch," age 38, most recently of Schenectady, New York, formerly of Long Island, pled guilty today to distribution of heroin and fentanyl, and to the possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: U.S. school enrollment dropped by 2.9 million from 2019 to 2020, with enrollment among the under-35 population dipping to its lowest level (52.4% of the total population) in over 20 years, according to data tables released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. The tables examine school enrollment at all levels during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, based on statistics from the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Rocky Mount man was arrested yesterday on drug trafficking and firearm charges. An indictment was handed down and an arrest warrant issued on April 7, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Zumari Wilson, 37, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha for conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and felon in possession of a firearm. Chief United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Wilson to a...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Scott Allen Greenwalt, of Moorefield, West Virginia, and Tonda Marie Hixenbaugh, of Petersburg, West Virginia, were indicted today on drug charges, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following joint statement today after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its analysis of the Build Back Better Act’s potential to increase health care coverage for millions of Americans...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Shane Terhune has been sentenced for selling heroin to a young couple in July 2018, having admitted that his act of distribution resulted in the overdose death of the woman. This sentence follows the August 2021 sentencing of Cornelius Brown, who received a five-year term of imprisonment...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG, Pa. - The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania/FEMA Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) for Northampton County opens today at 1:00 p.m. at the Northampton County EOC, 100 Gracedale Ave., Nazareth.
By State Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: SEATTLE - The Drug Enforcement Administration will host its 21st National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, October 23 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event offers free and anonymous disposal of unneeded medications at more than 4,000 local drop-off locations nationwide.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is pleased to announce the selection of Cindy Ledbetter as the new Field Manager for the Fillmore Field Office. Cindy is currently serving in a temporary assignment as Acting Fillmore Field Manager and will hold the position permanently starting on October 24.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A Fayette County man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A Guatemalan national who operated an international drug trafficking ring received a life sentence, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: Defendant Also Pleads Guilty in Separate Domestic Violence Shooting.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: A man who illegally possessed firearms pled guilty Oct. 18, 2021, in federal court in Sioux City.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Austin Jay Robinson, of Belington, West Virginia, was indicted today on drug charges, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that a Pennsylvania man was arrested on charges of fraudulently obtaining hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of merchandise from a national chain of home improvement stores. The charges are based on an indictment returned by a grand jury for the District of Delaware for wire fraud and access device fraud.
