News from January 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - The U.S. Attorneys representing the four districts in Texas have announced their intent to prosecute any crimes committed at the state capitol or otherwise in violation of federal law ahead of upcoming presidential inauguration.
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Representative Michael McCaul (R-Texas), lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today released the following statement ahead of tomorrow’s general election in Uganda. In recent ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted assaulting and carjacking at knifepoint a U.S. Postal Service employee, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment charging Lucas E. Izagas Figueroa with illegal importation of firearms, conspiracy to import and possess illegally imported firearms, illegal possession of machineguns, smuggling goods into the United States, and conspiracy...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: EM recently awarded performance-based fees payments to 10 of its contractors at sites across the DOE complex, including Hanford, Portsmouth, Paducah, Savannah River, and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - An Elk Grove Village man has been sentenced to 16 years in federal prison for trying to kill a postal carrier on New Year’s Eve 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Marshal Tyreece Miller announces the arrest of Anton Dyer and Lecarlos Spearman for Attempted First Degree Murder in unrelated crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: Restaurant Chain Manager Pleads Guilty to Employment Tax Fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Tucson Field Office will perform roof repairs on two historic structures at the Empire Ranch Headquarters in the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area (LCNCA). As part of this work, the BLM will construct temporary fencing around the structures to protect the public. The work will begin by the end of the month.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - William Brown, Ronald Williams, and McLane Ricardo Haddocks III have been sentenced for trafficking and conspiring to trafficking fentanyl and heroin. The three were long-time Florida drug dealers, and both Brown and Williams had been released from prison only a few months before resuming their criminal conduct in Atlanta, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: Woman Charged in For-Profit Visa Fraud and Alien Smuggling Scheme.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Deputy Energy Secretary Mark W. Menezes and Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar visited the Hanford Site last week to mark the completion of construction on facilities at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) needed to start treating radioactive waste from large underground tanks through the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) approach.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management has released a draft environmental impact statement and plan amendment for the three plans that underlie the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP). The public comment period will end on April 15, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Alexander Uhey-Medina, 32, of Denver, Colorado, was sentenced to five years (60 months) in federal prison for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The sentence will be followed by three years of supervised release.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
Release: The government of Ethiopia has asked USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to authorize the importation of sage (Salvia officinalis) for consumption into the continental United States. APHIS has drafted a pest risk assessment that describes potential pests associated with the commodity.APHIS ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alton James Johnson, 43, of Yuba City, California, pleaded guilty in federal court on Jan. 12 to assaulting two flight attendants while he was a passenger.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers caught a Morris County, New Jersey, man with a handgun at a security checkpoint in Terminal A at Newark Liberty International Airport on Tuesday, Jan. 12, marking the first gun stopped at one of the airport checkpoints this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: Two Canadian Citizens Charged With Illegal Possession Of Firearms United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal criminal complaint against DAYNE ADRIAN SITLADEEN, 29, and MUZAMIL ADEN ADDOW, 29, charging them with being unlawful aliens in possession of firearms. SITLADEEN and ADDOW are currently in federal custody and will make their initial appearances later this week before a Magistrate Judge in U.S. District Court.
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: As seen on the CSIS website :
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: Appellate Court Agrees with Government that Supervised Injection Sites are Illegal under Federal Law; Reverses District Court Ruling.
