News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: Erie, Pa. - A former resident of Albion, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By State Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul and Chairman Gregory W. Meeks issued the following statement ahead of the upcoming Albanian national elections.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On April 22, 2021, United District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger sentenced Tanner Jo Halverson-Weese, age 36, of Marshalltown, to 211 months in prison for Possession With Intent to Distribute 50 Grams or More of Methamphetamine and Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. - Matthew Hutchings, 26, was sentenced, Tuesday, by Northern District of California Federal Judge Beth Labson Freeman to 120 months of incarceration for possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute. This sentencing is the result of a joint Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) San Jose and University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) Police Department investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Singaporean national was charged today in New York with crimes related to his alleged leadership role in a scheme to use an oil tanker to violate U.S. and U.N. sanctions imposed against North Korea for facilitation of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Fitchburg man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for trafficking fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Va.- - A Whitewood, Virginia man pleaded guilty today to distributing child pornography using a means or facility of interstate commerce.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A joint FBI and DEA federal narcotics investigation has resulted in the conviction of 23 federal defendants in Utah, taking out a large-scale methamphetamine distribution organization in Salt Lake County run by members of eight street gangs and supplied by a Mexican drug cartel.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Daniel Arnold, 50, was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in federal prison after pleading guilty on November 4, 2020, to one count of failing to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). Jason R. Coody, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the sentence.
By State Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - A Parkersburg man pleaded guilty today to a federal firearms offense that was charged in an indictment in February 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: GREENSBORO - A North Carolina man was sentenced on April 22, 2021, to 63 months in prison for perpetrating three fraud schemes between March and July 2020 connected to the COVID-19 pandemic, through which he defrauded consumers and the federal government’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan program (EIDL), created to assist small business owners during the pandemic.
By State Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - Maria Candelaria Zambrano Zavala, 26, of Bloomington, and Humberto Rangel-Torres, 50, pleaded guilty this week to sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: Defendant Planned to Travel to Syria to Wage Violent Jihad.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: LURAY, VA - Shenandoah National Park personnel are conducting a search for a missing person. Ty Sauer, 18 of New Jersey was last seen on the evening of April 22 near mile 35 on Skyline Drive.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: National Crime Victims’ Rights Week is April 18-24.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Wednesday, April 21, a Texas couple was arrested for assaulting two Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers, as well as other crimes, during the U.S. Capitol breach on Jan. 6 that disrupted a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress in the process of affirming Presidential election results.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: Defendant spent months communicating online regarding sexual abuse of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A third member of the Proud Boys was arrested on April 21 pursuant to a superseding indictment that charges him, along with two other members of the Proud Boys, with conspiracy and other offenses related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 that disrupted a joint session of the U.S.
