News from February 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Joseph Garth, of Bellaire, Ohio, has admitted to his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months’ imprisonment on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - 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 approximately 70 positions at John Glenn Columbus International Airport and 10 positions at Rickenbacker International Airport.
By State Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that two Huntington men were sentenced to federal prison by United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. - Marijuana and methamphetamine were the top two drugs seized by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) investigators in Nebraska in 2020, with 2.5 kilograms of fentanyl, or the equivalent of one-and-a-half million lethal doses, also making its presence known across the state.
By State Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
Release: Today, a U.S. delegation attended the spring session of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee Meeting (AHLC). The AHLC serves as an important opportunity for the international community to support economic development for Palestinians, with an eye towards improving the situation in Gaza. During the discussion,...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: BISMARCK: Earlier today in brief letter to President Biden, United States Attorney Drew Wrigley resigned his office, effective Feb. 28, 2021. Wrigley is the 19th Presidentially appointed United States Attorney in North Dakota history, and has been serving since being confirmed by the United States Senate in April of 2019. He previously served as the 17th United States Attorney, from 2001-2009.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and AVANGRID, a sustainable energy company providing services in 24 states, conducted a virtual tabletop exercise to test and identify the safety procedures AVANGRID has implemented since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and identify additional procedures necessary to ensure employee safety operations and business continuity in the out years.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 23, 2021 - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) testified before the House Committee on Rules on H.R. 803, the Protecting America’s Wilderness and Public Lands Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced today that sitting Cleveland City Council member Kenneth JOHNSON, age 74, of Cleveland, was arrested this morning by law enforcement agents with the Cleveland Division of the FBI after a federal grand jury handed down a fifteen-count indictment charging JOHNSON with violations related to federal program theft. Two additional defendants were also charged in the indictment.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Subcommittee on Government Operations Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) opened today’s hearing on the federal workforce by outlining several of the effective reform efforts President Trump established to improve the federal bureaucracy and make it more accountable to the American people. In his remarks, Hice chastised Democrats for seeking to undo President Trump’s reform efforts and emphasized morale improved in the federal workforce under President Trump.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Cincinnati man, Keith A. Shaffer, 34, was sentenced on Tuesday to 30 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today pressed a group of officials responsible for security of the U.S. Capitol complex and surrounding area for answers on the January 6th attack. Peters pushed for information about breakdowns in intelligence gathering, security preparations and the delayed response during the first oversight hearing on the Capitol attack.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Larby Amirouche with conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, bank fraud, making false statements to banks and conspiracy to commit money laundering. These charges are brought in connection with a series of internet marketing schemes...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: A Tulsa man who repeatedly violated a protective order and strangled his former girlfriend was sentenced today in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that Jay James Fields, 38, was sentenced to a total of 57 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin and violating his supervised release.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Washington Dulles International Airport made it into the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) list of Top 10 List of unusual good catches detected at airports in 2020. TSA released the list in an on-line video it posted on the agency’s YouTube account.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah - Fire managers for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Arizona Strip District are planning to use prescribed fire to burn cut vegetation and slash debris in an area located 30 miles south of Fredonia, Arizona in the Kanab Creek drainage. Prescribed burning will begin early March 2021...
