News from February 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: Bismarck - United States Attorney Drew Wrigley announced that U.S. District Court Chief Judge Daniel Hovland has sentenced Terrell Armstrong, a/k/a Louis, a/k/a Looney, age 26 of Inver Grove Heights, MN, to 22 years in federal prison for Conspiracy to Distribute and Possession with Intent to Distribute Controlled Substances. Judge Hovland also sentenced Armstrong to five years of supervised release, to follow his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TREMAINE DOWDELL, 27, of Norwich, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton to 57 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for a federal firearm offense stemming from an assault and shooting in New London in 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - On Feb. 3, 2021, United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose sentenced Elizabeth Villanueva, age 36, of Lenox to 46 months in prison for possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine announced Acting United States Attorney Richard D. Westphal. Villanueva...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) delivered the following remarks at a business meeting to consider the nomination of the Honorable Jennifer Granholm to be the secretary of energy. Barrasso voted to oppose Granholm’s nomination.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 50-year-old executive is headed to prison for falsely telling patients they had mere months to live and increasing revenue by enrolling them in hospice programs for which they were not qualified nor needed.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Independence, Missouri, business owner has been sentenced in federal court for his role in a conspiracy to commit arson against a rival business as well as a residence, and for illegally possessing a firearm.
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: GREENSBORO, N.C. - United States Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin announced today that the Middle District of North Carolina collected $9,991,198.58 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2020. Of this amount, $3,442,905.31 was collected in criminal actions and $6,548,293.27 was collected in civil actions.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL Supporting Independent Media in Moldova. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0007577. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 19.345. Type of Solicitation:...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Antonio Barraza, 31, of Albuquerque, appeared in federal court on Jan. 22 on a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Barraza will remain detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: Caught after an altercation with law enforcement during a traffic stop.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK - The United States filed a forfeiture complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that all oil aboard a Liberian-flagged vessel, the M/T Achilleas (Achilleas), is subject to forfeiture based on U.S. terrorism forfeiture laws. This investigation was led by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York and the FBI’s Minneapolis office.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today gave virtual opening remarks for a panel on China, Hong Kong, and Democracy during Florida International University’s State of the World 2021 conference.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), the Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, outlined his key priorities as he takes on a new leadership role in the 117th Congress. Peters, who previously served as the committee’s Ranking Member, will continue to...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that a federal grand jury, sitting in Burlington, returned an indictment charging Dorian Johnson (a.k.a. “Jon"), 27, of Bloomfield, Connecticut with distributing cocaine base within 1,000 feet of the Brewster Pierce Memorial...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: One Defendant Remains at Large. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced that, yesterday morning, law enforcement arrested nine residents of Muskegon, Michigan on multiple federal drug trafficking charges, including selling methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl, and crack cocaine. Approximately...
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the Biden Administration’s extension of the New START Treaty for five years:
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - One resident of Pittsburgh, PA, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating various federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that a Palmer man was sentenced to serve 24 months in prison for Wire Fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union.
