News from January 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Windham woman waived indictment and pleaded guilty today in federal court to two counts of wire fraud stemming from her scheme to defraud Taiwanese exchange students studying in Maine, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TX - Beginning February 1st, the National Park Service (NPS) will temporarily close select areas in the Chisos Mountains to protect nesting falcons.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: DALLAS - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) announced Wednesday the fiscal year (FY) 2020 immigration statistics for the Dallas Field Office. ERO Dallas is responsible for overseeing an area of responsibility (AOR) that includes the state of Oklahoma and 128 counties in North Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Va.- Leon St. Clair, a Grundy, Virginia man who engaged in the business of selling firearms without a license, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to two years of probation, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar and Ashan M. Benedict, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Washington Field Division announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Jermica Jerri Dominick Brooks (37, Orlando) a/k/a “Jermica Jerri Dominick Sykes" to six years and nine months in federal prison for two separate wire fraud schemes and aggravated identity theft. The court also ordered Brooks to forfeit more than $25,000, which is traceable to benefits she had received as a result of the offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on President-elect Biden’s COVID relief plan...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Rancho San Pedro street gang member who oversaw the group’s daily operations, arranged sales of oxycodone and heroin, and reported to incarcerated Mexican Mafia members about the gang’s activities, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Hagatña, Guam - SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant Jesse Mendiola Blas, age 58, from Yona, Guam, was sentenced in the United States District Court of Guam to 37 months imprisonment for Extortion Under Color of...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C., Jan. 14, 2021 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer today announced the appointment of 67 members to serve on seven agricultural trade advisory committees.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Toyota Admits Conduct and Accepts Responsibility in Consent Decree; Agrees to Injunctive Relief and $180 Million Penalty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Defendant Used Online Alias to Threaten Women and Minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Two men from Redford Charter Township were charged in a criminal complaint for their alleged role in an ongoing fraud scheme, involving mail thefts in multiple cities throughout southeast Michigan over the past year, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for heroin trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Muskogee County residents Colton Delain Edwards, age 19, and Jakeyvious Dune Lee Key, age 19, each entered guilty pleas to Attempted Robbery In Indian Country, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2111, 1151, 1153, and 2, punishable by up to 15 years’ imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: AGBINGDON, Va.- Michael Houser, a Bristol, Virginia man who was convicted of federal gun offenses occurring in both the Western District of Virginia and Western District of North Carolina, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to 30 months in prison, Acting United States Attorney...
By State Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul championed two pieces of legislation that were signed into law by the president this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Dermot F. Shea, the Police Commissioner of the City of New York, and John B. DeVito, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF"), announced ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today released the results of their bipartisan investigation into the skyrocketing price of insulin, which they launched nearly two years ago.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - David Richard Chavez, 57, of Bernalillo County, New Mexico, pleaded guilty in federal court today to possession of an unregistered destructive device and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Cherilyn Patrice Humphery, 46, of Jackson, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Tom S. Lee, to 60 months in federal prison and 3 years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Michelle A. Sutphin with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Smith was also ordered to pay a $1,500 fine.
