News from February 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr. announced today that Donnell Salethian Woodard, a/k/a “Tank," age 33, of Columbia, South Carolina, was sentenced today in federal court to 25 years imprisonment after pleading guilty in September 2019 to conspiracy to sex traffic minors and benefiting from sex trafficking of minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Sentences. Chief Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl sentenced KENNETH VANCE WALLOWINGBULL, 42, of Montana on Feb. 12, 2021 for assault by strangulation. Wallowingbull was arrested in Billings, Montana. He received eighteen months of imprisonment, to be followed by thirty-six months of...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Missoula man who admitted aiming a laser beam at an airplane as it was approaching the Great Falls airport was sentenced today, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Xavier Lee, a/k/a “X," age 41, of Elkton, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to the federal charge of sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Matthew Brehm (619) 546-8983.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Judge Stephen R. Clark sentenced Lewis Brown to 135 months in prison today. The 44-year-old Florissant, Missouri resident pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $4.1 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to help the state of Louisiana prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: A group of Brown University researchers, funded by the Shared Beringian Heritage Program, are tracking evidence that supports a new but disputed theory about when and how human beings first arrived on the American continent. Brown professor Yongsong Huang and his team of researchers believe they have...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO), Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Garret Graves (R-LA) are requesting the U.S. Government Accountability...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
Release: Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Chair of the Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on Strategies for Energy and Climate Innovation.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
Release: NEW YORK - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is looking to fill more than one hundred full- and part-time positions at John F. Kennedy International, Newark-Liberty International and LaGuardia Airports during the course of the next several months. It’s part of a national effort to hire 6,000 TSA officers to be prepared for projected summer travel volumes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Wetter sold meth to an undercover officer in Spirit Lake near Memorial Park.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the Senate Parliamentarian’s announcement that the $15 minimum wage provision is not appropriate for inclusion in President Biden’s reconciliation package, the American Rescue Package.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today hailed the announcement that incoming U.S. Park Police Chief Pamela Smith will require officers to wear body cameras as a means of enhancing accountability and increasing public trust in the agency. The issue was the centerpiece of a Sept. 29, 2020, hearing in the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations titled Police Cameras at the Department of the Interior: Inconsistencies, Failures, and Consequences.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: To Subornation Of Perjury. SOUTH BEND - Ronya Phillips, age 47, of Goshen, Indiana, entered a guilty plea before United States District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty for two counts of subornation of perjury, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Bell. According to documents in this case, Ms. Phillips was formerly...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Torres-Perez, a convicted drug felon, was caught transporting 20 pounds of methamphetamine from California to northwest Iowa.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - Linda Williams, 52, of Memphis, Tennessee, an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax examiner, was indicted for defrauding the IRS by filing false tax returns for various tax payers in the Memphis area. Williams claimed over $500,000 in false deductions for these citizens. Many of these citizens were unaware of the false deductions discovered on their tax returns. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney, announced the indictment today.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is launching recruitment efforts nationwide to fill over 6,000 Transportation Security Officer (TSO) positions by summer 2021. Locally, TSA is looking to fill positions at Des Moines International Airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - Three individuals have been charged with arson for allegedly setting fire to a Chicago Transit Authority van during a period of civil unrest last spring.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Two men pleaded guilty this week to illegally excavating approximately 1,500 artifacts from federal land, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
