News from October 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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
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.
By State Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
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.

By DOL Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
There were seven press releases published by the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in September 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Defendant distributed more than 100,000 pressed fentanyl pills.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
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.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: East St. Louis, Ill. - A man from the Metro East will spend more than three years in prison for.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
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.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
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.
By State Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
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.
By State Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
There were 137 press releases published by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in September 2021.