News from October 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DONOVAN DIRON JOHNSON (“JOHNSON"), age 27, of Thibodaux, Louisiana was sentenced to imprisonment on Sept. 29, 2021 in federal court before U.S. District Court Judge Jay C. Zainey for being a person convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence found in possession of a firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(9).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: A Kansas woman was sentenced Monday in federal court for partnering with two others in a sex trafficking ring that prostituted a 16-year-old in Tulsa, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that an Illinois man pleaded guilty Friday, Oct. 1, 2021 to conspiring with others to launder, or attempting to launder, between $550,000 and $1,500,000 from internet-based fraud schemes. Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly accepted the plea.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden man today admitted to possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: WINNEMUCCA Nev. - On or around Oct. 11, 2021, the Humboldt River and Tuscarora Field Offices (HRTFO) will begin a wild horse gather on the Owyhee Complex located approximately 30 miles northeast of Paradise Valley in Humboldt and Elko Counties, Nevada. The Owyhee Complex encompasses over approximately...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Morgan Wency Ventura Sanchez, 24, of Fresno, was sentenced today to six years and six months in prison for possessing hundreds of fentanyl pills with intent to distribute them and illegally possessing a firearm in furtherance of the offense, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A Riverside County man with a three-decade history of crimes was sentenced this afternoon to 110 months in federal prison for a month-long robbery spree of pharmacies in the Inland Empire while wearing medical masks.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: Harpers Ferry, W. Va. - This October, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park (NHP) and the Harpers Ferry Park Association will host Kathleen Ernst as an Artist-in-Residence. Ernst aims to research historic floods, Virginius Island as a thriving industrial village, Island Park and B&O Railroad tourism, and the impact of Jim Crow and segregation during her time in Harpers Ferry.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: Roswell, N.M. - Beginning the week of Oct. 4, 2021, and continuing through the rest of the month, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will conduct prescribed fire operations approximately ten miles northeast of Ruidoso and six miles southeast of Capitan in Lincoln County. The 600-acre Eastwell slash pile unit is located within the Fort Stanton-Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Chinese national who participated in a multimillion-dollar scheme to manufacture, ship and market counterfeit laptop computer batteries and other electronics made in China was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site will offer special programs during the park’s anniversary month in October. Authorized on Oct. 17, 1968, the park celebrates 53 years this fall. A Community Poetry Reading will be held at the amphitheater on Oct. 17, followed by a Sing-along. A virtual writing workshop will be hosted via Zoom on October 20.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - Today, a South Florida federal district judge sentenced a Vero Beach drug dealer who drove around town with fentanyl, a loaded semi-automatic firearm, and tens of thousands of dollars in cash to 106 months in federal prison.
By State Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
Release: I congratulate Kishida Fumio on his election by the Diet as the next Prime Minister of Japan. I had the opportunity to work with Kishida-san when he was Japan’s Foreign Minister and I was the Deputy Secretary of State. I am grateful for the prime minister’s friendship and his commitment to advancing the shared priorities of our two countries.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- This week kicks off the first event in the annual Alliances for Climate Action virtual series with key speakers including FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy. This year’s annual event will be co-hosted...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Point Pleasant man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for attempted sex trafficking of a minor. Dale Randall McCarthy, Jr., 51, pleaded guilty to the offense in May 2021.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: Brady: Inflation on Track for Highest in 40 Years, Crushing American Families & Small Businesses.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: Trenton, N.J. - As survivors move through the recovery process, help is just a phone call, a mouse click or a tap on the FEMA app away. The Disaster Recovery Center in Warren County will close permanently on Friday, Oct. 8 at 5 p.m.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: SOUTHWEST AREA TYPE 1 INCIDENT TEAM 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County, New Jersey, man today admitted defrauding a victim of almost $2 million in connection with a fraudulent investment scheme, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the House Education and Labor Committee Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) Comptroller General Gene Dodaro to ensure ‘Buy America’ requirements for school meals are being followed.
