News from January 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: Defendant Set Fire to Victim’s Car to Induce Protection Payment.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - Next month, the National Park Service (NPS) will begin seeking the public’s input on a study designed to guide preservation of North Carolina’s historic Pinehurst Village, a nationally-significant golf resort and community established in 1895.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ZOHEB A. DEURA, 34, of Derby, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to three years of probation, the first nine months of which Deura must serve in home confinement, for stealing mail while he was a U.S. Postal Service employee. Judge Dooley also ordered Deura to pay a $20,000 fine.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr., (D-NJ), House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), and House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA), issued the following...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr., (D-NJ), House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), and House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA), issued the following...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Methuen man was indicted on Monday, Jan. 11 by a federal grand jury on charges of armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: U.S. Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of ABDELHAMID AL-MADIOUM, 24, to one count of providing and attempting to provide material support and resources, namely personnel and services, to ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization. AL-MADIOUM entered his guilty plea today before Judge Ann D. Montgomery in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sentencing is currently scheduled for May 26, 2021 at 1:30 pm.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Engineers with EM contractor Fluor Idaho are working with Idaho State University to conduct radiation testing on components to be used to remove a granulated high-level radioactive waste called calcine from a storage bin at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Christopher Bryant, 47, of Fort Stanton, New Mexico, pleaded guilty on Jan. 12 to possession of child pornography. Bryant will remain in custody pending sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - The U.S. Marshals arrested 16 people Tuesday as the result of a federal grand jury indictment returned January 6, 2021, charging them with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - The U.S. Marshals arrested 16 people Tuesday as the result of a federal grand jury indictment returned January 6, 2021, charging them with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Battle Mountain District, Tonopah Field Office is asking the public to review and provide comment on a draft environmental assessment for Beach Mining LLC’s proposed Goldfield Basin Project, a placer gold mine located in Lida Valley, approximately 15 miles south of Goldfield, Nevada. The 30-day comment period will run from Jan. 13, 2021 until Feb. 12, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former director of medical and scientific affairs at a New Jersey pharmaceutical company was arrested today on charges of stealing and illegally transmitting trade secrets, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - United States Attorney Brian J. Kuester today announced the results of the October, November, and December 2020 Federal Grand Juries. The combined grand jury sessions returned 41 unsealed and 11 sealed indictments on crimes ranging from kidnapping, federal firearms offenses, robbery, drug trafficking/distribution, child exploitation, aggravated sexual assaults in Indian Country, manslaughter, and murder in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: SPOKANE, Wash., - Joshua Isaac Stine, age 34, a resident of Ephrata, Washington, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Court Judge Wm. Fremming Nielsen to a 240 month term of imprisonment, to be followed by a 10 year term of court supervision after he is released from federal prison. Stine...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-A Roland man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity after exchanging messages with an undercover investigator.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - The U.S. Attorneys representing the four districts in Texas have announced intent to prosecute any crimes committed at the state capitol or otherwise in violation of federal law ahead of upcoming presidential inauguration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Fred Federici issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Trevon Richards, 31, of St. Thomas, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller and entered a guilty plea yesterday to one count charging him with possession with intent to distribute less than 50 kilograms of marijuana, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 841(a)(1), U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: Defendant Had Posted Threatening Statements About Killing a U.S. Senator-Elect and His Intent to Travel to Washington, D.C. with Firearms to Engage in Violence.
