News from February 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that STIEVE FERNANDEZ, 35, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to a conspiracy charge stemming from a lottery scam that defrauded an elderly Connecticut victim of nearly $1.2 million.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS - Keeping with the agency’s multiple use mission, the Bureau of Land Management Southern Nevada District will hold a virtual information forum to involve the public in the early stages of a proposed Recreation Area Management Plan for the Cottonwood Valley trails area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: Almost 2,700 image files found on cell phone.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Acting U.S. Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon issued the following statement regarding the deaths of FBI Special Agents Dan Alfin and Laura Schwartzenberger on Feb. 2, 2021, in Sunrise, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston gang member pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to a cocaine conspiracy and firearm possession.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm and for making a threatening phone call that caused disruption at the Springfield National Airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Watertown, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: Defendant Attempted to Steal Nearly $223,000 in Unemployment Benefits.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today praised the Biden administration’s swift release of $1.3 billion in Community Development Block Grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to help Puerto Rico rebuild infrastructure destroyed by Hurricane Maria and the removal...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON- A member of the Proud Boys, a nationalist organization, was arrested today and charged in federal court in the District of Columbia with obstructing or impeding an official proceeding, among other charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Tina Rose Yoho, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 46 months of incarceration for a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
Release: President Biden pledged to keep the American people safe from nuclear threats by restoring U.S. leadership on arms control and nonproliferation. Today, the United States took the first step toward making good on that pledge when it extended the New START Treaty with the Russian Federation for five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: CEO Sentenced for $150 Million Health Care Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A former Inca, or first-in-command, of the North Shore Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") pleaded guilty today to racketeering charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Jonathan D. Larsen, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO - To protect the health of those who live, work, and visit national parks and National Park Service (NPS) facilities, and in support of President Biden’s Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing, NPS is immediately implementing a mask requirement for employees, visitors, partners and contractors.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - The National Park Service (NPS) has announced the Old Courthouse at Gateway Arch National Park will undergo renovations beginning in late 2021. The renovations are part of the final component of the $380-million CityArchRiver project, which has resulted in the revitalization of the Gateway...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Charleston, West Virginia, has been sentenced in federal court to four years imprisonment, followed by three years supervised release on his convictions related to two bank robberies, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
Release: MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has installed new acrylic shields at the security checkpoint at Morgantown Municipal Airport as part of the agency’s continued efforts to implement initiatives to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kaylen Edwards, 22, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by complaint with being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charge carries carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, and a $250,000 fine.
