News from October 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: Defendant Accused of Grabbing Police Baton, Attacking Officer in a Violent Struggle That Knocked Officer to Ground.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Saint Francis, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on Oct. 18, 2021, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management is processing an application submitted by the U.S. Forest Service for the Secretary of the Interior to extend the withdrawal described in Public Land Order No. 7549, The Lemhi Pass National Historic Landmark, subject to valid existing rights. In 2002, PLO...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A Letcher County Middle School teacher was convicted late Wednesday, by a federal jury sitting in London, of producing child pornography and cyberstalking a student.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3.7 million grant to the city of Winona, Mississippi, for the installation of a 250,000-gallon water tank, creating economic resiliency while facilitating...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: Madison, Wis. - Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Justin Miner, 37, Fitchburg, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 8 years in federal prison for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Miner pleaded guilty to this charge on August 4, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: North Carolina Tax Preparer Sentenced for False Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: Francis Arthur and his Co-conspirators Used the Proceeds of a Fraud Scheme to Purchase High End Automobiles.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: Leonard C. Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ELIEZER PEREZ, also known as “Ka-King," 42, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing oxycodone from his New Britain grocery store.
By State Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
Release: Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Molly Phee will travel to Paris, France October 22 and 23. She recently traveled to Ghana and Burkina Faso, her first visit to Africa in her current role. The Assistant Secretary and an interagency group will draw from her recent trip to discuss current and future cooperation with French counterparts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Dennis Sryniawski, 48, of Bellevue, Nebraska, was sentenced on Oct. 20, 2021 by United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher to twelve months and one day in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system. Sryniawski must also pay a $10,000.00 fine.
By State Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
Release: The United States remains seriously concerned at the continued erosion of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including political participation, in Hong Kong. We note in particular the increase in politically-motivated prosecutions, including through the National Security Law, targeting Hong Kong’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: The man who supplied cocaine for a major Richmond County drug trafficking operation, and another man who admitted to a firearms offense related to the operation, have been sentenced to federal prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, convened a hearing with federal inspectors general to discuss bipartisan legislation he authored that would provide federal watchdogs with protections to strengthen independent oversight...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A federal jury in Providence on Wednesday convicted a Warwick man on charges that he acted as an unlicensed federal firearms dealer when he purchased and took possession of sixteen firearms over a period of sixteen months in two states and then sold the firearms to other individuals. The jury also found that he made false statements in order to purchase the firearms, claiming, untruthfully, that he was not an unlawful user of a controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - Jaime Cruz Duarte, Rito Armando Torres Gutierrez, and Antonio Penaloza Torres have been charged with federal offenses including conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Richmond, Kentucky man, Lavone Dixon, 36, was sentenced to 312 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, for possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data from the sixth phase of the Small Business Pulse Survey (SBPS). Data collection began August 16. Results will be released weekly August 26 to October 21. New content in the SBPS Phase 6 covers difficulties hiring employees, new workplace norms, changes in...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that the Grand Jury in the District of Nebraska has returned a two-count indictment against Matt Tibbels, 58, of Lincoln. The Indictment charges Tibbels with committing child exploitation crimes between Aug. 31, 2020 and October 5, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Florida man who admitted to trafficking methamphetamine in Great Falls and to transporting $80,000 in stolen ATVs and other property in a cross-country crime spree that ended in Missouri was sentenced today to 11 years and four months in prison and to be followed by four years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
