News from January 2021
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2021
News Release: Bishop, Calif. - Effective Jan. 6, the Bureau of Land Management Bishop Field Office is easing seasonal fire restrictions on all BLM-managed public lands extending from the southern Owens Valley in Inyo County, north to Topaz Lake and the Nevada border in Mono County. The year-round statewide Fire Prevention Order remains in effect.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Westbrook man was sentenced today in federal court for distributing images of child sexual exploitation, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2021
News Release: For Being A Felon In Possession Of A Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2021
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Sharon L. Gleason sentenced Michael Don Robertson, 68, a former Anchorage psychiatrist, to 12 months home confinement and 5 years of probation for conspiracy to commit controlled substance fraud and one count...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 6, 2021
News Release: DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), NASCAR, the Daytona International Speedway, state and local first responders, law enforcement officials, and local businesses held a tabletop exercise today to test response plans around hypothetical public safety incidents on the day of the DAYTONA 500.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Christopher Lamont Stimpson, Jr., 22, and Wilbert Curtis Trey Artis, III, 29, both of Greensboro, North Carolina, were arrested and charged by Indictment with robbery which interferes with interstate commerce...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2021
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman joined local and federal law enforcement leaders today for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the grand opening of the Cleveland Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) Strike Force facility. The new facility will allow police, federal investigators and both state and federal prosecutors to collaborate and share resources on investigations into criminal organizations at one central location.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2021
News Release: WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - A man who pleaded guilty to obtaining healthcare benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs through fraud was sentenced yesterday, announced Matthew G.T. Martin, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS-A Billings woman who admitted illegally possessing a handgun she threw out of a stolen vehicle during a law enforcement pursuit was sentenced today to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2021
News Release: Sage Creek Rim Road is closed due to a landslide. More cracks are forming indicating the potential of more slides in the area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2021
News Release: New Haven - “This morning, an individual was shot and killed on Enfield Street in Hartford during an exchange of gunfire with members of an FBI-led joint task force who were on the scene to arrest another individual on a federal criminal complaint. The Connecticut State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Inspection Division are jointly investigating this matter in coordination with the New Haven State’s Attorney’s Office and the U.S. Attorney’s Office.".
By DOE Newswire | Jan 6, 2021
Release: Policy Recommendations Support America’s Renewed Leadership in Space
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2021
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRANDON SPENCE, also known as “Spun," 33, of Hartford, was arrested today on a criminal complaint charging him with violating the conditions of his federal supervised release.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 6, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following statement after meeting yesterday with former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, President-elect Joe Biden's nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Energy. Senator Carper's statement on the announcement of Governor Granholm's nomination can be found here.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former Mesa Airlines employee was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison for conspiring to fraudulently obtain nearly 2,000 free flights for himself and others on Spirit Airlines and to manufacture counterfeit Mesa employee identification badges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2021
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Columbus man has agreed to plead guilty in a case involving the murder of a husband and wife in a local Internet café.
By State Newswire | Jan 6, 2021
News Release: Washington-House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory Meeks and Lead Republican Michael McCaul released the following statement in response to today’s violence in the U.S. Capitol Building...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - The former bookkeeper of a New Bedford-based seafood company has been charged and has agreed to plead guilty in connection with embezzling nearly $600,000 from her employer.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 6, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Houston announced Wednesday the results of a recent enforcement action targeting criminal aliens who are alleged to have illegally reentered the United States after having previously been removed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2021
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Columbus man has agreed to plead guilty in a case involving the murder of a husband and wife in a local Internet café.
