News from February 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, during a joint oversight hearing to examine the security failures that led to a breach of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, questioned the former Chief of the U.S. Capitol...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
Release: NEW YORK. - Newark Liberty International, John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia Airports all earned the high honor of making it into the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Top 10 list of good catches detected at airports in 2020 with TSA officers at Newark landing the top good catch of 2020. TSA released the list in an on-line video it posted on the agency’s YouTube page.
By State Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
Release: The United States is deeply troubled by the arrest of opposition leader Nika Melia and other members of the opposition in Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury has indicted a suburban Chicago man for allegedly trafficking fentanyl, cocaine, and heroin, and illegally possessing loaded handguns.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) collaborated with the Phoenix Police Department, Mesa Police Department, Tempe Police Department, Chandler Police Department, and the Arizona Attorney General’s Office for Operation Broken Hearts. The week long sting operation began in early February resulted in nearly 40 arrests of suspected child predators.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr sentenced Luis Analberto Pineda-Anchecta, 38, a Honduran national, to 240 months in prison and five years of supervised release on kidnapping charges, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By State Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), Chairman Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), and Representatives Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Jim Langevin (D-RI), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), and Bill Keating (D-MA) reintroduced the Cyber Diplomacy Act of 2021. This bill will ensure the State Department opens the Office of International Cyberspace Policy to advocate our democratic ideals in the global cyberspace.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Cincinnati man, Alex Collins, 37, was sentenced on Tuesday to 36 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: Thomas Baxter Used a False Identity to Defraud the Social Security Administration.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) during today’s hearing titled, “Building...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair and Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee Chair Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's CDC Member Roundtable on COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that, on Feb. 18, 2021, Tristan Jamal Grant, aka “Goo" 35, of Anchorage, was indicted by a federal grand jury for Escape by Prisoner in Custody and Failure to Appear. Julissa Carter, aka “Red", 32, of Anchorage was charged by criminal complaint Feb. 19, 2021 for Assisting an Escape by Prisoner in Custody and Aiding and Abetting Grant’s Failure to Appear.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: DENVER - A Wyoming man who admitted producing multiple child pornography videos was sentenced Feb. 16 to 30 years in prison followed by a life term of supervised release.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
Release: Feb. 23, 2021 - As part of its ongoing efforts to ease the economic burden on millions of Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Department of Education-in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)-issued guidance to postsecondary institutions to inform them about temporarily expanded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) eligibility for students in need.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two San Fernando Valley men were arraigned today on a federal grand jury indictment alleging they were part of a prolific document trafficking ring that created and sold counterfeit U.S. passport cards, Social Security cards, driver’s licenses and other documents, the result of a probe by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Los Angeles and the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office.
By State Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s confirmation as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (UN):
By DOE Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing entitled, ““Pathway to Protection: Expanding Availability of COVID-19 Vaccines"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Edward Lee Thomas, 48, of Perkinston, Mississippi, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to serve the statutory maximum of 600 months in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for producing images of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: El Dorado, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Patrick Wayne Watson, age 24, now of Conway, Arkansas, and Kennan Dane O’Bier, age 24, now of Nash, Texas, were sentenced in Federal Court for their roles in a Mail Fraud...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: EM has joined forces with the DOE Office of Legacy Management (LM) to expand the EM National Laboratory Network to support the missions of both program offices: legacy nuclear waste cleanup and long-term stewardship of closure sites.
