News from October 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - A Mexican national pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to his role as operator of a human smuggling stash house in Phoenix, following a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Nogales.

By State Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA -- A resident of New Jersey has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months’ imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release on his conviction for conspiring to distribute more than 5 kilograms of cocaine and quantities of heroin and fentanyl, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.

By DOE Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Mark Gilbertson is set to retire from federal service at the end of October following 40 years of public and private sector experience.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA -- A resident of New Jersey has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months’ imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release on his conviction for conspiring to distribute more than 5 kilograms of cocaine and quantities of heroin and fentanyl, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.

By DOL Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirmed that the health care policies in the House Democrats’ reckless $4.3 trillion tax and spending reconciliation bill will push Americans off the health plans they have and like and onto government-controlled coverage, at a steep expense to American taxpayers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A Port Arthur man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking crimes in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today.

By State Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Representatives Gregory W. Meeks and Michael McCaul led a letter to President Biden in support of the White House’s plans to welcome His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew this month. The bipartisan letter was addressed to the President with 180 additional co-signers.

By Homeland Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, at a Senate Finance Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, pressed Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus, the nominee to be Commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP),...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ga. - A Columbus resident who nearly ran over arresting police officers, leading them on a short chase before crashing his car into a tree, was sentenced to federal prison for possessing a stolen firearm.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: Defendant Accused of Spraying Officers with Pepper Spray and Throwing Metal Rod at Them.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: Defendants conspired to traffic cocaine and heroin from Mexico to Springfield area.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Rhamel G. Pate, age 40, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for distributing cocaine base in Schenectady, as well as for possessing firearms in furtherance of his drug crimes.

By State Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: The scheme involved the transportation of meth from Mexico to Texas to Iowa for distribution in Iowa and South Dakota.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the Harrisburg Police Bureau announced a joint initiative (Operation Scarecrow - Harrisburg) that targets individuals who illegally purchase and...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Ponemah man pleaded guilty today to second degree murder after violently assaulting a woman on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, announced Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk.

By State Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The EM Nevada Program ’s environmental program services contractor has developed a new small-grants program to support science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programming at schools near the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS).
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: MOOSE, WY- For public safety, Grand Teton National Park officials, in coordination with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, euthanized a highly food-conditioned, four-year-old female grizzly bear on Saturday, October 16. This action was taken after the bear received...