News from October 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Brendan Farver, 26, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Poplar Bluff, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for smuggling more than a kilogram of fentanyl in his luggage aboard a train that stopped in Kansas City, Mo., from Los Angeles, Calif., bound for St. Louis, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston woman pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston for illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition.
By State Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Tucson, AZ - Saguaro National Park was assisted by Pima County Sherriff’s Office and Arizona Department of Public Safety in recovering the remains of a 19 year old woman from Washington state found near the Grass Shack Campground on the afternoon of September 29.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime Chair Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), along with Subcommittee Members David N. Cicilline (D-RI), Burgess Owens (R-UT), and Thomas Massie (R-KY), introduced the bipartisan Terry Technical ...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Three Mobile Disaster Recovery Centers (MDRCs) will open in Tehama County beginning Oct. 3, operated by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The MDRC will offer information on available resources to homeowners, renters and business owners who sustained damage to their property from the California wildfires.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: In Exchange for Bribes, Two NYPD Officers Steered Damaged Vehicles to a Tow Truck Company Operated by a Former NYPD Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: GREENSBORO - Yesterday, at a press conference, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco and DEA Administrator Anne Milgram announced a significant law enforcement surge to protect American communities from the flood of fentanyl and fentanyl-laced pills across the United States. Illicit fentanyl, a synthetic opioid found in most of the fake pills that were seized, is the primary driver of the recent increase in U.S. overdose deaths.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Jemez Springs, NM - The National Park Service (NPS) is planning a prescribed fire in the southwest corner of Valles Caldera National Preserve later this fall to reduce hazardous fuels, improve wildlife habitat, and create healthier and more resilient ecosystems.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - After the government spent three days presenting witnesses and evidence to a jury, George Wilson, III entered a plea of guilty in federal court to firearms charges, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today. Wilson’s trial had commenced on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
There were 21 press releases published by the House Committee on Homeland Security in September 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that ZACHARY VERDIN, age 29, of Marrero, Louisiana, was charged with three counts of Bank Robbery in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2113(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Today, the Drug Enforcement Administration issued a Public Safety Alert warning Americans of the alarming increase in the lethality and availability of fake prescription pills containing fentanyl and methamphetamine. DEA’s Public Safety Alert, the first in six years, seeks to raise public...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Kyle Paine, 27, of Langhorne, PA, was convicted by a federal jury at trial of multiple child exploitation offenses which arose from an undercover investigation into the defendant’s online communications.
By State Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recently welcomed seven new committee interns for the fall term.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Joe L. Fletcher III, 33, of Akron, with one count of escape.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Joe L. Fletcher III, 33, of Akron, with one count of escape.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Dermot Shea, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced the unsealing...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Gettysburg National Military Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site will conduct lethal removal of white-tailed deer as part of the White-tailed Deer Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement between October 2021 through March 2022. This action addresses over-browsing of native vegetation and...
