News from October 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Giovanni Gort (32, Tampa) has pleaded guilty to two counts of armed robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison for each armed robbery count and a minimum mandatory penalty of 7 years’ imprisonment for the firearm offense, to be served consecutive to the armed robbery counts. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: ROCKFORD - A man has been convicted of federal robbery and firearm charges in connection with a series of violent retail store robberies in Rockford.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: KEYSTONE, SD - Beginning on Oct. 28, the Lincoln Borglum Visitor Center and Information Center will open at 8:00 a.m. and close at 6:00 p.m. The Lincoln Borglum Visitor Center and Information Center will transition to winter hours on November 7, opening at 8:00 a.m. and closing at 5:00 p.m. The Sculpture will continue to be lit at dusk until 9:00 p.m.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) led a bicameral letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack and U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, urging them to carefully reassess a vaccine mandate for firefighters...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Manison Largo, 42, of Church Rock, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, pleaded guilty on Oct.19 in federal court to abusive sexual contact with a child. Largo will remain in custody pending sentencing, which has not been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell has sentenced Sergio Antonio Hood (37, Tampa) to 21 years and 10 months in federal prison for possessing ammunition as a convicted felon, obstruction of justice, and attempted witness tampering. Hood is an Armed Career Criminal, which carries...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, joined Washington Post Live to discuss how he is leading efforts to fight back against cyber-attacks that disrupt lives and livelihoods and hold foreign adversaries and...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Kenyari Devaughnte Brewton (26, Ocala), a former deputy with the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office, has pleaded guilty to two federal felonies: (1) making a materially false statement during the purchase of a firearm and (2) causing a federal firearms licensee to maintain false information...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
Release: Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), Chair of the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on United States Global COVID-19 Response: Actions Taken & Future Needs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that a jury returned guilty verdicts yesterday against OLUWASEUN ADELEKAN, a/k/a “Sean Adelekan," and TEMITOPE OMOTAYO for conspiracies to commit wire fraud and money laundering, and aggravated identity theft. U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska presided over the one-week trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Oct. 27, 2021, Brandon Orr, a/k/a “B Orr," age 29, of York, was sentenced to 224 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner for conspiring to distribute over a kilogram of heroin laced with fentanyl and five kilograms of cocaine while on federal supervision for a prior 2015 drug conviction.
By State Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
Release: More information about Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is available on the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Country Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A federal grand jury returned a six-count Superseding Indictment charging ten defendants from Westmoreland, Allegheny, and Lawrence Counties in Pennsylvania with violating the federal narcotics and firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Troy Lee Neal, age 42, of Elkton, Maryland, to eight years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and possession with the intent to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: MISSOULA--The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that during an arraignment on Oct. 14, Dora Sandra Gomez, also known as Bella Gomez, 64, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging her false information and hoaxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Richard Allan Howell, of Moorefield, West Virginia, has admitted to his role in a drug distribution operation, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee Republican Leader Greg Murphy, M.D. (R-NC) delivered the following remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a subcommittee hearing to examine the policies and priorities of the Office of Federal Student Aid...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: MONROE, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a federal jury in Monroe, Louisiana, returned a guilty verdict yesterday afternoon convicting Steven Marcus Kelley, 48, of West Monroe, Louisiana, in connection with a murder-for-hire plot. United States District Judge Terry A. Doughty presided over the two-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Daripsy Sanchez, an inmate at the Secure Female Facility at Federal Correctional Institution Hazelton in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 15 months for an assault charge, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Murdered Victim for Life Insurance Benefits, Then Scattered Her Remains in a Park in Brooklyn.
