Source: United States Department of Justice
Christopher Beckham, 35, of Nashville, Tennessee, pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court to violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Beckham was indicted in April 2018 after an investigation into an incident that occurred on Oct. 24, 2017.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
A Canadian national was sentenced to 32 months in prison for conspiracy to bring undocumented immigrants to the United States for private financial gain in connection with his role in a scheme to smuggle undocumented immigrants from Sri Lanka through the Caribbean and into the United States.
Source: United States Navy
SAN DIEGO – Naval Aircrewman (Helicopter) Petty Officer First Class Cale Foy, assigned to the “Merlins” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 3, was among the first rescuers on the scene aiding over 30 passengers who were tossed into the ocean after the boat transporting them capsized near the rocky shoreline by Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego on May 2.
Source: United States Navy
North Atlantic Ocean – Exercise At-Sea Demo/Formidable Shield (ASD/FS) 2021, a live-fire integrated air and missile defense (IAMD) exercise conducted by Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO on behalf of U.S. Sixth Fleet, kicked off today, May 15, 2021 at the U.K. Ministry of Defence’s Hebrides Range in the vicinity of the Western Isles of Scotland.
Source: United States Department of Justice News
The president and owner of Oil Chem Inc. was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for violating the Clean Water Act stemming from illegal discharges of landfill leachate — totaling more than 47 million gallons — into the city of Flint sanitary sewer system over an eight and a half year period.