News from January 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Randy Tremfer, age 44, of Syracuse, New York, pled guilty today in federal court in Binghamton to one count of transportation of child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and Kevin M. Kelly, Special Agent in Charge of the Buffalo Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: Fire managers from Rocky Mountain National Park plan to take advantage of any upcoming wet or winter weather conditions to burn piles of slash generated from several fuels reduction projects and hazard tree removals. Slash from these projects has been cut and piled by park fire crews and contractors during the last two years and are now dry enough to burn.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Khaled Miah, 27, a resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and former student at the University of Pittsburgh, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with one count of making interstate threatening communications, one count of influencing, impeding or retaliating against a Federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MANUEL SANTIAGO, also known as “Pete" and “Green-eyed Pete," 51, last residing in West Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine, and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands encourages everyone to join her this Saturday, January 9th, by saluting our law enforcement officers and showing support on Law Enforcement Appreciation Day. “Local and federal law enforcement officers...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Adrian Funderburk, 37, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute cocaine, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 22-year-old Houston man has entered a guilty plea to theft from an interstate cargo shipment, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former Newark police officer was sentenced today to 108 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corporation (NWCDC) and giving kickbacks to its former executive director, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Dominique Revell Dungey, of Martins Ferry, Ohio, and Denico Anderson, of Columbus, Ohio, have admitted to their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man charged with Distribution of a Controlled Substance Resulting in Death pled guilty and was sentenced on January 5, 2021, by District Judge Lawrence L. Piersol.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A former Indian Health Services doctor who worked on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation and admitted using his job to prescribe a diabetes drug from a pharmacy in exchange for kickbacks was sentenced today to three months in prison, two years of supervised release and fined $10,000, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota and the FBI’s Minneapolis Field Office condemn the violence and terror that took place at our Nation’s Capitol and surrounding area. This was a reprehensible affront to our institution of democracy. We are committed to upholding the rule of law and will hold accountable any individual who traveled from the District of Minnesota to commit illegal, violent acts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: Meth, brass knuckles with built-in knife found in search of camper.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - Another alleged associate of one of the most serious transnational organized criminal organizations will make his initial appearance in U.S. federal court today on charges of distributing kilogram quantities of cocaine from Colombia, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Peter DeFazio, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, today released the following statement after Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao announced her resignation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Gary Dewayne Martin (31, Fort McCoy, FL) has pleaded guilty to possessing an unregistered firearm silencer. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement regarding new guidance the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued yesterday allowing for the deductibility of expenses paid for with a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: FARGO, N.D., - On January 7, Drew Wrigley, U.S. Attorney for the District of North Dakota, announced charges against 26 defendants involved in Operation Blue Prairie, a drug pipeline connecting individuals in Detroit, Michigan, to the Spirit Lake, Turtle Mountain and Fort Berthold Indian Reservations...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 22-year-old Houston man pleaded guilty to theft from an interstate cargo shipment Thursday in the Southern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: Poolesville, Md. - On Thursday, Jan. 7, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park will close the Edwards Ferry (Lock 25) Bridge to vehicle traffic. The bridge will remain open to bicyclists and pedestrians. During a recent inspection, engineers discovered the bridge‘s steel is in a state of...
