News from February 2021
By State Newswire | Feb 1, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - A 43-year-old local man has been sentenced to nearly 42 years for the robberies of multiple phone and others stores during Christmas week in 2017, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2021
News Release: EL PASO - Today in El Paso, federal authorities filed two criminal complaints charging five individuals for smuggling an estimated $5.4 million worth of marijuana and methamphetamine and 77 illegal aliens, announced U.S. Attorney Gregg N. Sofer, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2021
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton today sentenced Layce Owens (43, Michigan) to 12 months and a day in federal prison for failing to register as a sex offender in Florida. Owens had pleaded guilty on Oct. 28, 2020.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 1, 2021
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - The mastermind behind an extensive drug trafficking ring entered a guilty plea this week, and four other defendants either entered pleas or were sentenced recently to substantial terms in prison for distributing large amounts of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine in Newport News, Virginia, and North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2021
News Release: DAYTON - A Dayton man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court here today to unlawfully possessing a pipe bomb.
By State Newswire | Feb 1, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Lead Republican Michael McCaul and Chairman Gregory W. Meeks of the House Foreign Affairs Committee released a joint statement following the second straight weekend of protests in Russia that saw tens of thousands of peaceful protesters take to the streets across the country to demand...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Randy Matthew Peraza, 48, of Needles, California, was sentenced on Jan. 27 in federal court to three years in prison for bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Sandra Roberto, 42, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, pleaded guilty in federal court on Jan. 29 to wire fraud and fraudulent tax returns stemming from an embezzlement scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2021
News Release: WHEELING - U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced today that the Northern District of West Virginia collected $52,693,826.90 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2020. Of this amount, $443,308.84 was collected in criminal actions and $52,250,518.10 was collected in civil actions.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2021
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - A canyoneer died in an accident in Death Valley National Park on Saturday, January 30.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2021
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Martin Hogan, 52, of Montreal, Quebec, CA, with conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, and international money laundering conspiracy. The charges carry a maximum of 30 years in prison, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2021
News Release: Government seeks civil forfeiture of five properties and 40 financial accounts and investments.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2021
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment on Jan. 26, 2021, charging the owner and operator of a Wilmington daycare center with one count of wire fraud, one count of theft of government money, and three counts of tax evasion.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2021
News Release: KOUNTZE, Texas - Big Thicket National Preserve is looking for volunteers on Presidents' Day, Monday, February 15th, for a second longleaf pine tree planting event. During a normal Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service event, volunteers will plant 16,000 trees, and this year volunteers planted nearly 5,000 trees. Resource managers are hoping volunteers will be able to plant 8,000 longleaf pine trees on Presidents' Day.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Buffalo Field Office is planning a broadcast burn when conditions are safe on BLM and private lands in north central Campbell County.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2021
News Release: Hospital Researcher Sentenced to Prison for Conspiring to Steal Trade Secrets, Sell Them in China.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2021
News Release: Individuals Impacted by Lack of Access Eligible to Participate.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2021
News Release: A Denton man has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for child sex trafficking, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2021
News Release: BOISE - Scott Alexander Laney, 38, of Boise, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 42 months in federal prison for health care fraud and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Laney to serve three years of supervised release following his prison sentence, pay restitution totaling $29,795.49, and a fine of $2,500. Laney was convicted on October 5, 2020, following a bench trial.
