News from February 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: A man who distributed methamphetamine and was in possession of multiple firearms was sentenced today to more than ten years in federal prison.
By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
Release: QUESTION: Joining us now here in The Situation Room, the new Secretary of State, Antony Blinken. Mr. Secretary, congratulations. Thanks so much for joining us. I know you’ve got a lot on your plate; we’re grateful to you for taking a few moments to discuss these issues with us. I know you’ve already...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: DETROIT - A 58-year-old Bahamian national in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) passed away, Feb. 5, at the Calhoun County Jail in Battle Creek, Michigan. The preliminary cause of death was reported by emergency medical officials to be caused by a medical emergency.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - An Orange County man was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison for selling narcotics and illegally brokering the sale of firearms - including several “ghost guns" - following an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Los Angeles, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Costa Mesa Police Dept.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after Education and Labor Committee Democrats unveiled their piece of the budget reconciliation scheme...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Hassayampa Field Office proposes to conduct remediation of approximately 217 acres of public lands in the White Tank Mountains / Miller Road area near Buckeye, AZ. The BLM has released a draft environmental assessment (EA) and is inviting public review.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that STEPHEN DANIEL DEFIORE age 36, a resident of Brandon, Florida, was charged today in a one-count Bill of Information with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 371 and 1343, for his role in a SIM Swap scam that targeted at least nineteen people, including a New Orleans-area physician. DEFIORE is the second member of the conspiracy to be charged.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Marlandow Johnson, 45, of Jackson, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to 27 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - U.S. Attorney Bill Powell, Vice Chair for the Executive Board of the Appalachia High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (AHIDTA), and AHIDTA Executive Director Vic Brown are proud to announce the AHIDTA Outstanding Task Force Officer of the Year Award recipient for 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Cambria County, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty today in federal court to a charge of production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a felony information charging ISAIAH LESLIE GOODMAN, 33, of Maple Grove, Minn., with one count of mail fraud. GOODMAN will make his initial appearance before a Magistrate Judge in U.S. District Court at a later date.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) announced the Committee will consider nine legislative proposals under the budget reconciliation instructions this week as the next step in delivering COVID-19 relief to the American people. Beginning on Wednesday,...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Acting U.S. Attorney Raj Parekh announced today that the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) collected approximately $242,000,000 in criminal, civil, and asset forfeiture actions in Fiscal Year 2020 on behalf of private and government victims.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: WELLFLEET, Mass - The spring Eastern wild turkey hunt will take place in Massachusetts starting April 26. This is the tenth season that spring turkey hunting will be permitted in Cape Cod National Seashore. The 2021 national seashore turkey hunting season is April 26 through May 15, which is the first three weeks of the state’s four-week turkey season. The spring youth turkey hunt is April 24.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: Great Basin National Park is pleased to announce that a new partnership between the Great Basin National Park Foundation and the University of Nevada, Reno art department is facilitating the launch of a new regional Artist-in-Residence program at the Park.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure will hold a Full Committee markup on Wednesday, Feb. 10, at 11:00AM EST to consider the following measures...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: SAN DIEGO, CA - Jonathan Madison of San Diego pleaded guilty in federal court this morning to sex trafficking of children, admitting that he knowingly recruited, advertised, and solicited teenage girls and women to engage in commercial sex acts. Madison also admitted that he videotaped himself having sexual intercourse with an underage girl and later transmitted the video to her by cell phone.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: SPOKANE, Wash., - Today, Todd Earl Bridges, age 38, a resident of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced to 180 month term of imprisonment for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of actual (pure) methamphetamine. United States District Judge Rosanna Malouf Peterson also ordered a 5 year term of court supervision after he is released from federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Allen Lewis, 26, of Torreon, New Mexico, was sentenced in federal court in Albuquerque on Feb. 4 to 12 years and five months in prison for involuntary manslaughter, assault resulting in serious bodily injury of a minor, and assault resulting in serious bodily injury in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: Harrisburg, PA - Today, United States Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Zaequan Amir Black, a 20-year old Harrisburg man.
