News from October 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: East St. Louis, Ill. - A convicted felon from the Metro East is headed to prison for nearly six.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Chadbourn man was sentenced today by Judge James C. Dever to a total of 81 months for Possession of a Firearm by a Felon and Possessing a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime. On June 23, 2021, Lukim Lamont Pittman pled guilty to the charges.
By State Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
Release: On behalf of the United States Government and the American people, I extend best wishes to the people of Nigeria on the 61st anniversary of their independence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - 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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Smith also assaulted two inmates in the jail while awaiting his sentencing.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: The Olympic Interagency Fire Management Program and park road crew have planned and prepared for prescribed burns of five woody debris piles beginning Monday, October 4th. The debris piles are located in the Sol Duc, Elwha, Hoh, Mora, and Quinault maintenance areas of Olympic National Park. Road clearing operations in Olympic National Park generate large amounts of debris and pile burning is the most convenient and cost-effective method of disposal.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Officers Seized Four Loaded Firearms, Large Amounts of Drugs, Cash.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Two McIntosh County men indicted as part of a major drug trafficking operation have been sentenced to federal prison for charges including armed robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a Stephan, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Brandishing of a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence was sentenced on Sept. 21, 2021, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a four-count indictment charging Mamadou Gando Balde a/k/a Thierno O. Ba, 51, a citizen of the West African nation of Guinea currently residing in Lackawanna, NY, with attempted unlawful procurement...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Beckley man pleaded guilty today to a federal gun charge. James David Morris, Jr., 42, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Chief Engineer and Greek Ship Owner and Operator Charged with Concealing Deliberate Pollution and Failing to Report a Hazardous Condition.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG -The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that “The Prescription Center," located in Scranton, Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay the United States $57,073 in civil penalties for allegedly failing to comply with recordkeeping requirements of the Controlled Substances Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Ruben Ivan Fuller, 44, of Port Saint Joe, Florida, has been sentenced to thirty years in federal prison after previously pleading guilty to drug and firearm charges. Jason R. Coody, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that a federal grand jury returned a seven-count indictment charging Aaron J. Gaines, age 39, whose last known address was in Akron, Ohio, with interference with commerce by robbery, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, attempted carjacking, carjacking and felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on Sept. 20, 2021, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), today announced that the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.6 million grant to the Harrison County Commission ...
By State Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
There were three press releases or notices published by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs in September 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- Acting U.S. Attorney M. Rhett DeHart announced today that Lamar Louis Johnson, a/k/a “McJag," 39, of Mount Pleasant, was sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for his role in suppling cocaine to a drug trafficking organization that operated in the Dorchester Terrace neighborhood of North Charleston.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HAWAI‘I - Captivating images and video of the new lava lake eruption on Kīlauea volcano are going viral, but they often do not represent what visitors can safely see when they visit Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.
