News from February 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jonathan David Cochran, of Barrackville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 34 months of incarceration for a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A disbarred lawyer was sentenced today to 180 months in federal prison for stealing more than $4 million from his clients through a variety of means, including collecting fees for work he never performed. The case is the result of an extensive investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) and the State Bar of California.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Charles Cornelius Smith (36, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Smith faces up to 30 years in federal prison on the conspiracy charge, and a 2-year mandatory minimum term of imprisonment on the aggravated...
By State Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
Release: The United States welcomes the verdict in the case against former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander, Dominic Ongwen, for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC). This is a significant step for justice and accountability for atrocities committed by the LRA. We hope that this verdict brings some measure of peace to the many victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Philip Leo Campanirio, 54, of Westport, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in federal court to bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Ivan Cano-Elvira, 34, an illegal alien from Mexico, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Taylor B. McNeel to possession of a firearm by an illegal alien, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca, Diane Witte, Field Office Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.4 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, to expand services and support for entrepreneurs across the state of Wyoming. This EDA grant, to be matched with $600,000 in local investment, is expected to create 368 jobs and generate $1 million in private investment.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: The House Appropriations Committee today organized for the 117th Congress by adopting Committee Rules and Subcommittee Jurisdictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Law enforcement officials seized more than 73 pounds of cocaine, 32 pounds of heroin, eight pounds of methamphetamine, nine firearms and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash this week in relation to federal charges pending against three Columbus men.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Caught after law enforcement executed a search warrant at his residence for an immigration violation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Gregory Dow, 61, of Lancaster County, PA, was sentenced to 15 years, eight months in prison, a lifetime of supervised release, and ordered to pay $16,000 in restitution by United States District Judge Edward G. Smith for sexually abusing four minor children in an orphanage which the defendant and his wife operated in the Republic of Kenya.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson, and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig announced a Passaic County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for conspiring to distribute fentanyl and distributing fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, man who was previously employed by the New Jersey Department of Child Protection and Permanency (NJDCP&P) today admitted producing images of child sexual abuse, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Wavy Curtis Shain, 38, of La Grange, Kentucky was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for conspiring to commit mail fraud. Shain pleaded guilty to the charge in September 2020. U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff also ordered Shain to pay $23,373.92 in restitution and imposed a $40,000.00 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Representative Yvette Herrell (R-N.M.), and Committee Republicans sent a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas requesting all documents and communications related to President...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.5 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Delaware Division of Small Business, Dover, Delaware, to establish and administer a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) that will provide critical gap financing to businesses adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic across Delaware. This EDA grant is expected to help create 1,500 jobs and retain 500 jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: ROCKFORD -A Rockford, Ill. man was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge John Z. Lee on a federal drug trafficking charge. ROMEO TRAMMELL, 32, was sentenced to 132 months in federal prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release. Trammell pleaded guilty to the charge on Sept. 4, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JEFFREY TAVAREZ, 22, of Waterbury, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his role in a heroin and fentanyl trafficking ring.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: The northern border between the U.S. and Canada serves as an important conduit for trade and travel into the country. However, safeguarding and securing this vital point of entry presents unique challenges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Thirteen individuals are charged with trafficking cocaine in the San Antonio area, announced U.S. Attorney Gregg N. Sofer and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple, Houston Division.
