News from February 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A key participant in a telemarketing fraud scheme that preyed on the trust of individuals has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - The owner of several bogus charitable organizations in Georgia was charged and has agreed to plead guilty to filing false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A suburban Chicago man has been arrested for allegedly illegally possessing a loaded handgun and dealing crack cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - On Monday Feb. 15, Grand Canyon National Park will begin repairing a leak in the Transcanyon Pipeline (TCP) at Phantom Ranch. As part of this repair, the TCP will be turned off and trail closures will be in place to allow crews to fix the existing pipeline. The project is expected to continue through Thursday, February 18. Repair operations will last each day from approximately 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Richard Bracey was sentenced to 18 months in prison for conspiring to launder drug-trafficking proceeds between 2017 and 2019, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: Soto, who had a previous drug conviction, was discovered with meth and cocaine hidden in a can with a false bottom.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and New York Police Department Commissioner Dermot Shea, announced that RICKEY JOHNSON, a/k/a “Nigel Dawn Defarren," was arrested last night based on a criminal Complaint filed in Manhattan federal court charging JOHNSON with making...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: Visitors to Glen Canyon National Recreation Area are advised that due to low water levels the main launch ramp at Bullfrog Marina will close on Feb. 12, 2021. The north launch ramp at Bullfrog Marina remains open and available to all boaters. In addition, a launch location adjacent to the eastern side of the main launch ramp will be available beginning Feb. 12, 2021 for vessels up to 20 feet in length.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Voluntary Manslaughter was sentenced on February 8, 2021, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Mother Lode Field Office is temporarily restricting target shooting on public land along Hogan Dam Road located south of the New Hogan Lake in Calaveras County. This two-week emergency closure is necessary to allow U.S. Army Corps of Engineers crews to safely survey the area and is in effect from Feb. 15 until March 1, 2021.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today announced the Natural Resources Committee will hold its organizing meeting for the 117th Congress at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, Feb. 18. The event, which will be livestreamed at.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that Troy Covington, 20, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Beckley, was sentenced to 12 months in prison, to run consecutively to the sentence he currently is serving, for possessing a weapon at the facility. He also was sentenced to three years of supervised release following his imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Torrey Tythoneus White of High Springs, Florida, has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to numerous drug trafficking and firearm charges. Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the sentence, which was handed down on Monday.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND - A Portland man was arrested following a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) investigation that revealed he purchased and downloaded child pornography from the dark web between Sept.-Oct. 2020. HSI Portland executed a search warrant at Alexander Wiese’s residence in Portland and arrested...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued additional school reopening guidance...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: BALTIMORE - A federal criminal complaint has been filed charging three men on the federal charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a scheme to allegedly sell purported COVID-19 vaccines. The criminal complaint was filed on February 9, 2021 and was unsealed today upon the defendants’ arrests. Charged in the criminal complaint are...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announced today that George Thomas Griffiths, Jr. (41, Ponte Vedra Beach) has been arrested and charged by federal criminal complaint with distributing child pornography. Griffiths faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 5 years, and up to...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Wolf Point woman who admitted entering a hotel and beating up the desk clerk during a robbery was sentenced on Thursday to 30 months in prison and to two years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: Homestead and Ochopee, Fla.-The National Park Service (NPS) announces the beginning of the prescribed fire season in the South Florida National Parks and Preserve. During the 2021 prescribed fire season, our Fire & Aviation Management program plans to conduct 23 prescribed fire treatments located in Everglades and Biscayne National Parks and Big Cypress National Preserve. Operations are expected to begin mid-February.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: A Drumright man today admitted in federal court that he stole $401, 146 worth of funds and oil and gas products from his former employer, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
