News from October 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - An East Moline, Illinois man, Christopher Ray Hicks, was sentenced on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021, by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to 180 months in prison for Conspiracy to Distribute 50 Grams or More of Methamphetamine. Hicks was ordered to serve five years of supervised release to follow his prison term and pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL CASTILLO, a/k/a “Squirrel," was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl to 276 months in prison for the March 10, 2011 murder of Hector Arias in the Bronx, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ROBERT LEMKE pled guilty to making threatening interstate communications to a New York City-based family member of a journalist (the “Journalist"), citing the Journalist’s statements about the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. LEMKE pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine pled guilty Oct. 12, 2021, in federal court in Sioux City.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT -The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Oct. 14, 2021, Jelani Lee, of Durham, North Carolina was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury for methamphetamine distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Ellison C. Travis announced that the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) has awarded $272,998 collectively to the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office, Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office, and Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office. These awards will be used to support...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) Atomic Legacy Cabin (ALC) in Grand Junction, Colorado, will celebrate Nuclear Science Week, Oct. 18-22. Because ALC staffers have had great success reaching middle-school students in past years, they want to bring that same experience to fifth-grade students in 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that LASHAUMBA RANDOLPH was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for providing fake titles and other fraudulent vehicle documentation used to defraud car buyers as part of a national stolen car ring involving...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. Oct. 15, 2021 - Following successful fire suppression operations and a period of favorable weather, the majority of Kings Canyon National Park and some wilderness areas of Sequoia National Park will reopen for public use on Monday, October 18. All developed areas of Sequoia National Park remain closed.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Clint Johnson today announced the results of the October 2021 Federal Grand Jury B.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Spokane - Helmut Ewe Borchert, age 62, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced today after having pleaded guilty on July 15, 2021, to Possession with Intent to Distribute 500 Grams or More of a Mixture or Substance Containing a Detectable Amount of Methamphetamine. United States District Judge Thomas O. Rice sentenced Borchert to a 12-year term of imprisonment, to be followed by a 5-year term of court supervision after he is released from federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicole Bredariol (619) 546-8419 and Assistant U.S. Attorney Joshua Mellor (619) 546-9733.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: BUSHKILL, PA: The National Park Service bridge repair project on US Route 209 has necessitated the closure of a section of the McDade Trail between the Bushkill Access and Bushkill Village trailheads to ensure public safety. The contractor is currently working on the Bushkill bridge approaches and bridge...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Wolf Point man accused of attacking a man in the head with a bat on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation admitted to an assault charge today, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: A Tulsa man who possessed a revolver and shotgun to protect himself and the marijuana he was illegally distributing pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Raleigh, N.C. - A Raeford, NC woman was sentenced today to 12 months and a day imprisonment and ordered to pay $90,003 in restitution for committing wire fraud involving an elderly veteran in her care. On July 6, 2021, McNeill pled guilty to the charge.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Lassen Volcanic National Park will make use of forecasted precipitation to complete prescribed burning within the park.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Committee Member Rep. Ayanna Pressley, sent a letter to Ambassador Susan Rice, Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Acting Director Shalanda...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: ALTURAS, Calif. -- The Bureau of Land Management has completed gathering excess wild horses from the Surprise Complex of herd management areas in northwest Nevada. In the effort, 1,216 wild horses were gathered as part of the effort to return populations to sustainable levels. The BLM released 68 mares and 90 stallions back to the range to maintain viable populations in the herd management areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Seattle - A 22-year-old Mount Vernon, Washington, man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 100 months in prison and 4 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas W. Brown. Defendant Jiovanni Nunez supplied counterfeit oxycodone...
