News from February 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Judge Stephen R. Clark sentenced Roman Frenchie to 60 months in prison today. The 22-year-old Overland, Missouri resident pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Va.- Brian Parks, the former owner of a North Carolina sports supplement company that introduced an unapproved drug into interstate commerce, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to 12 months and one day in federal prison, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar and Assistant Commissioner for Criminal Investigations Catherine A. Hermsen, FDA Office of Criminal Investigations, announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: Today, following a release from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), Livestock and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee Chairman Jim Costa of California applauded the agency’s move to protect unpaid livestock sellers through a Dealer Statutory Trust...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: I. Illegal Reentry After Deportation (8 U.S.C. 1326).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Feb. 16, 2021, Jesse K. Bell (age: 32) of Neenah, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 38 months’ imprisonment for possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: Defendant Agreed to Give Cash Payments to College Facilities Director In Exchange for the Awarding of a Contract.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Shola Yusuf Adediji a/k/a Michael Kopeck, 37, of Los Angeles, CA, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and wire fraud. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today announced the vice chairs and subcommittee chairs for the 117th Congress. The positions were chosen by the Democratic members of the Committee during their recently concluded organizing meeting.
By State Newswire | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Lead Republican Michael McCaul released the following statement following the tragic attacks in Iraq on February 15th.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey woman admitted to unlawfully possessing stolen mail in Hunterdon and Monmouth Counties, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: Mark W. Pletcher (619) 546-9714 and Andrew J. Galvin (619) 546-9721.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man has been arrested and charged in federal court with carjacking after he allegedly took a vehicle from a victim in Orland Park and fired a shot at a police officer who was pursuing him.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Roger Dale Bolen, of Moundsville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 63 months of incarceration for a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: A west Texas man pleaded guilty today to abducting a 9-year-old girl from a birthday party, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today welcomed Shawn Bishop to be Chief Health Advisor on the Senate Finance Committee Majority staff.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: Spokane Man Sentenced in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JASON FIGUEROA, also known as “Hood" and “Hoodie," 31, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley to 87 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for crack cocaine distribution and firearm possession offenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 17, 2021
Release: CHICAGO -Transportation Security Administration officers at Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) stopped three handguns in separate and unrelated incidents from Saturday, Feb. 13 through Tuesday, Feb. 16.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI") announced that JOSEPH CIMINO, the founder of an Orange County-based tequila company...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Judge E. Richard Webber sentenced Tara Sabatini to 30 months in prison today. The 45-year-old St. Charles, Missouri resident pleaded guilty, in October, to one count of wire fraud.
