News from September 2021

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Marquis Jamal Buckley, 27, of Prentiss, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Taylor B. McNeel to serve 87 months in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons, followed by three years of supervised release, for selling firearms to a convicted felon, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: A man who led Dubuque, Iowa, police on a high‑speed chase that ended with his car on its hood and his gun, heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine in the snow, pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell announced today that President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. made additional federal emergency aid available for the state of Louisiana for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged as a result of Hurricane Ida.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: The defendant distributed his recordings online to others seeking ‘homemade’ child pornography.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - In a series of pleas, six members of the Nine Trey Gangsters (NTG) national criminal organization pleaded guilty to Racketeer Influenced and Corruption Organization (RICO) conspiracy charges.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: Facilities denied admission to patients prescribed Opioid Use Disorder treatment.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - William Eugene Wright, IV, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 156 months of incarceration for a child pornography charge, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."-Aristotle, Greek Philosopher.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: Six Members of Nine Trey Gangster Bloods Gang Plead Guilty to RICO Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - Joan Chenoweth, of Tolono, Illinois, was sentenced to 52 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, on Sept. 27, 2021, for embezzlement of over $600,000 from her former employer, Illini Contractor Supply, and her failure to pay federal income tax.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - Carlos Jones, 20, has been sentenced to 90 months in federal prison for his role in a carjacking, committing the carjacking and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph C. Murphy Jr., announced the sentenced today.

By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Mark Takano, Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, released new documents showing that Ike Perlmutter, Marc Sherman, and Dr. Bruce Moskowitz, associates of former President...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - Charles Boyett Mitchell, Jr., 35, of Princeton, pleaded guilty today to distribution of a quantity of cocaine.

By State Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
Release: Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Jonathan Pershing will travel to Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa; Windhoek, Namibia; Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo; and Dakar, Senegal from September 27 to October 8, 2021. In addition, Deputy Special Envoy Pershing...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - After a four-day federal jury trial in June 2021, Antonio Johnson 44, Travis Jackson 37, and Shalundra Johnson, 39 were found guilty of kidnapping and multiple bank robberies. Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph C. Murphy Jr., announced the sentencing today.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: The New York City Department of Education Will Monitor Potentially Harmful Emissions from Oil-Fired Boilers, Convert or Replace Seven Large Boilers and Pay a $1 Million Civil Penalty to the United States.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Antonio Junior Guerrero, of Ranson, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: Devon Energy Companies Agree to Pay $6.15 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations for Underpaying Royalties on Gas from Federal Lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - Carlos Jones, 20, has been sentenced to 90 months in federal prison for his role in a carjacking, committing the carjacking and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph C. Murphy Jr., announced the sentenced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: Today, the Drug Enforcement Administration issued a Public Safety Alert warning Americans of the alarming increase in the lethality and availability of fake prescription pills containing fentanyl and methamphetamine. DEA’s Public Safety Alert, the first in six years, seeks to raise public awareness of...