News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: MIAMI - With opioid overdose deaths increasing during the pandemic, the Drug Enforcement Administration is holding its 20th Take Back Day on Saturday, April 24th. DEA’s October 2020 Take Back Day brought in a record-high amount of expired, unused prescription medications, with the public turning in close...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: A man who left a halfway house while still serving a federal term of imprisonment was sentenced on April 16, 2021, to another six months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On April 16, 2021, United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger sentenced Joseph Mikel Cerwick, age 33, of Urbandale, to 144 months in prison for Receipt of Child Pornography announced Acting United States Attorney Richard D. Westphal. Cerwick was ordered to serve eight years of supervised release to follow his prison term, pay $9,000 in restitution, and comply with sex offender registry requirements upon his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia joins communities nationwide in commemorating the 40th anniversary of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW) from April 18-24, 2021. This year’s theme, Support Victims. Build Trust. Engage Communities, emphasizes the importance of leveraging community support to help victims of crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Julian N. Waddell, of Durbin, West Virginia, has admitted to firearms charges, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Ramsey E. Covington, Acting Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, today announced that ROBERT T. COLGAN, 60, of Norwalk, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden to a federal tax offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that GUSTAVO L. VILA, a disbarred lawyer in New York, was sentenced today in White Plains federal court to 51 months in prison for stealing approximately $1 million that the Department of Justice’s 9/11 Victim Compensation...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Keith Morris, 33, of Charleston, pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of firearms and possession with intent to distribute 40 grams of fentanyl. Morris was charged in a Superseding Indictment returned by a federal grand jury in November 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - An Arkansas man pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally damaging and removing more than two dozen trees from a national forest.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DIONTE WILSON, 25, of East Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 33 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Cheikh Ahmet Tidiane Cisse, age 45, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to three years and a day in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release for theft of government property and aggravated identity theft, in connection...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Portsmouth woman pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with a scheme to defraud veterans.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Full Committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA), and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Bob Latta (R-OH) wrote to the National Telecommunications...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: DENVER - A Colorado man was convicted of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine April 19.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Full Committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA), and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Bob Latta (R-OH) wrote to the National Telecommunications...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A man who trafficked firearms and re-sold them to Chicago gang members has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Full Committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA), and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Bob Latta (R-OH) wrote to the National Telecommunications...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Acting U.S. Attorney William T. Stetzer joins the Department of Justice and communities nationwide in observing National Crime Victims’ Rights Week and.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott will be chairing a Full Committee hearing titled, “Rural Broadband - Examining Internet Connectivity Needs and Opportunities in Rural America" on Tuesday, April 20th at 10:00 am.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
Release: Competitors Represent the Next Generation of Energy-Savvy Architects and Engineers Who Will Build Our Clean Energy Future
