News from October 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Johnathan Shane Blakeley, 27, of Vallejo, pleaded guilty today to unlawfully possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony crime, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-On Sept. 15, 2021, a coordinated law enforcement operation targeting the leader and several associates of a Lane County drug trafficking cell led to the seizure of 384 pounds of methamphetamine, the largest single methamphetamine seizure in Oregon State history and valued at over a million dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - A Clinton man, Joshua Del Chandler, was sentenced on Monday, October 4, 2021 by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 210 months in prison for Receipt and Distribution of Child Pornography. Chandler was ordered to serve seven years of supervised release to follow his prison term and pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund and $11,000 in restitution.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HAWAIʻI - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park announces flight operations for October 2021.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: HONOLULU - A Waianae man was sentenced in federal court today to 18 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for leading a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy on the islands of Oahu and Hawaii.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded more than $479 million in airport infrastructure grants to 123 projects at airports across all 50 states, American Samoa and Puerto Rico. View an interactive map with all the awards.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Defendant is a fugitive; FBI is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: NASHVILLE - A federal indictment unsealed today charged former supervisory corrections officer Kenan Lister, 42, of Clarksville, Tennessee, with federal civil rights and obstruction offenses, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Mary Jane Stewart for the Middle District of Tennessee and Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: As Part of His Plea Agreement, Also Admits Producing Nude Images of Four Other Minor Victims-With Most of the Images Being Taken When the Victims Were Less Than Five Years Old.
By State Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the administration’s declassification of the number of active and inactive warheads in the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile:
By State Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Southwest Area Type 1 Incident Management Team 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Pawtucket man who sold a kilogram of cocaine to another person while under law enforcement surveillance was sentenced on Monday to six-and-a-half years in federal prison, announced Acting United States Attorney Richard B. Myrus.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of New Castle, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court on a charge of fraud, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: GULF BREEZE, Fla. - The Fort Pickens Area of Gulf Islands National Seashore will close today, October 5 at 1 p.m. through Thursday, October 7, due to flooding of Fort Pickens Road and campground.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Edgar Eugene Hatten, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was indicted today on a drug charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - One month after the federal disaster declaration for the remnants of Hurricane Ida, more than $175.8 million in federal funds have been provided to New Jersey to aid in their recovery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that BRENT BORLAND, the owner and principal of a New York-based investment fund known as Belize Infrastructure Fund I LLC (“Belize Fund"), was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 84 months in prison...
By State Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chairman and chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to take immediate action to increase staffing at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, and, if the Russian Government does not cooperate, to expel 300 Russian diplomats.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Like the gold at Fort Knox and the Hope Diamond, Hanford’s “valuables" were once housed in one of the most secure facilities in the nation. A top-secret room within a top-secret facility at the sprawling top-secret Hanford Site, a vault in the 231-Z Building protected the site’s plutonium during the first decade of national defense operations.
