News published on Federal Newswire in October 2021

News from October 2021


Leader of Drug Conspiracy Sentenced to 27 Years in Federal Prison

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.


News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Today, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland announced convictions in six federal cases involving firearms and fentanyl that are being prosecuted in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. These six cases were brought pursuant to initiatives of the U.S. Attorney’s Office designed to reduce gun violence and to stop the sale of fentanyl in Baltimore.


Justice Department Awards Nearly $4.2 Million in Grants to State of Louisiana

News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Ellison C. Travis announced that the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance and Bureau of Statistics have awarded $4,192,789 collectively to the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and the Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance.


Release: MR PRICE: Hey, good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining us for this call previewing the Secretary’s upcoming trip to France. As you know, we officially announced it this morning.


Department of Justice and DEA Announce Seizures of Historic Amounts of Deadly Fentanyl-Laced Fake Pills in Public Safety Surge to Protect U.S. Communities

News Release: COLUMBIA - 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.


How many press releases were published by Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in September 2021?

There were seven press releases published by the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in September 2021.


News Release: Defendant distributed more than 100,000 pressed fentanyl pills.


Baltimore Serial Armed Robber Pleads Guilty to Robbing 35 Businesses and Brandishing a Firearm In Relation to a Violent Crime

News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Darnell Gerald Gaither, Jr., age 27, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to affecting commerce by robbery and brandishing a firearm in relation to a violent crime, specifically in relation to 35 armed robberies committed throughout Baltimore County, Maryland.


News Release: Defendant Admits to Concealing More Than $1 Billion in Assets when Renouncing U.S. Citizenship and Agrees to Pay More Than $500 Million Penalty.


Finding of No Significant Impact Approved for the Strawberry Creek Restoration Project

News Release: BAKER, NEVADA - The National Park Service has approved the Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) and Non-Impairment Determination for the Strawberry Creek Restoration Project in Great Basin National Park, NV. This completes the environmental compliance process for this project.


News Release: East St. Louis, Ill. - A man from the Metro East will spend more than three years in prison for.


News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - KEVIN MARTIN, age 28, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced on Sept. 30, 2021 by United States District Judge Carl J. Barbier to 70 months incarceration in the Bureau of Prisons, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.


News Release: A felon and known gang member previously convicted of multiple drug and larceny crimes pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court for illegally possessing firearms, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.


BLM fire crews planning two prescribed burns northwest of Cañon City

News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. -The Bureau of Land Management is preparing to conduct prescribed burn in the Deer Haven area, approximately 15 miles northwest of Cañon City, south of High Park Road, and west of County Road 69 in northern Fremont County. Prescribed burn will also occur at the Waugh Mountain, located approximately 26 miles northwest of Cañon City and 20 miles northeast of Salida, two miles south of Fremont County Road 2.


Release: More information about Singapore is available on the Singapore country page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.


News Release: ABINGDON, Va.- A Wise County, Virginia man was sentenced this week to 135 months in prison for conspiring with others to traffic methamphetamine from Georgia into Lee and Wise counties for redistribution.


News Release: Washington, DC - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Chairman Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) have released the following statement ahead of this weekend’s elections in Georgia.


San Mateo Man Sentenced To More Than 11 Years In Prison For Receiving Child Pornography

News Release: Defendant Convinced Four Minor Girls To Make And Send Images And Videos Of Themselves Engaged In Sexual Conduct, And Attempted To Entice At Least Two More.


McLaughlin Man Indicted for Burglary, Intentional Damage to Property, Trespass, and Stalking

News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Third Degree Burglary, Intentional Damage to Property, Criminal Trespass, and Stalking.


September 2021: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives publishes 137 press releases

There were 137 press releases published by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in September 2021.