News from September 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Rumaldo Peshlakai, 40, of Tsayatoh, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, appeared in federal court today for a preliminary hearing on a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Peshlakai will remain in custody pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that BRANDON WARD, age 34, a resident of Covington, Louisiana, was sentenced to 240 months imprisonment by United States District Judge Eldon E. Fallon after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment charging him with distribution of images...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Dejuan Bernard Williams, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced today to 60 months of incarceration for a drug charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: DETROIT - The deadline for survivors of the June 25 -26 severe storms and flooding to register with FEMA for individual disaster assistance has been extended to Friday, Nov. 12, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - A Boerne man was sentenced yesterday to 135 months in prison and ordered to pay $7,424,927.10 in restitution for running a Ponzi scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 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 $2 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Northern Maine Development Commission, Caribou, Maine, to capitalize and administer a Revolving...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) gave the following statement after the Biden administration announced updated rules on surprise out-of-network medical billing...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Republic, Missouri, man who led law enforcement officers on a high-speed chase pleaded guilty in federal court today to possessing methamphetamine to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Today, 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 | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - United States District Judge Ronnie L. White sentenced Lloyd Wings to 252 months in prison today. The St. Louis, Missouri resident pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit armed robbery, six counts of armed robbery and two counts of using a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Great Falls woman who admitted to dealing methamphetamine and heroin in the community was sentenced today to 38 months in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: DETROIT - Today, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development Alejandra Y. Castillo announced that 50 organizations - including nonprofits, institutions of higher education, state government agencies, and other entrepreneurship-focused organizations - from 26 states will receive grants totaling $36.5 million to support programs that fuel innovation and tech-based economic development.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - Visit the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center this Saturday to learn about Wyoming’s rich and complicated paleontological past and its connection to one of the most famous figures in American history, Andrew Carnegie.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOHN MATTHEWS, also known as “Jay" and “Gotti," 36, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 136 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Grier Woodall, age 43, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Sept. 29, 2021, to 27 months’ imprisonment to be followed by a 6-year term of supervised release, by United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - Ryan Ashley Williams, 36, was sentenced today to 128 months in prison for federal firearm and drug crimes.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: Kula, Maui - After three decades of speaking up for native plants, Botanist Patti Welton officially retired from the Integrated Resource Management Division in Haleakalā National Park on Sept. 24, 2021. Patti spent her National Park Service career inventorying and monitoring plant species, controlling invasive weeds, and restoring native ecosystems.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Jermaine Collier of St. Louis, Missouri, appeared before United States District Court Judge Ronnie L. White on Sept. 28, 2021. Collier previously pleaded guilty in July and was sentenced to 84 months in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: HOT SPRINGS, ARK. - Aaron Edward Briggs, 28, formerly of Morgan City, Louisiana, was sentenced yesterday to thirty (30) years in prison without the possibility of parole on one count of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor via the Production of Child Pornography. The Honorable Chief Judge Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the U.S. District Court in Hot Springs.
By State Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
Release: QUESTION: Well, Secretary Blinken, thank you so much for spending time with us. I really appreciate it.
