News from January 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: Received $20,000 from the Sale of Three Kilograms of Cocaine Seized During a Drug Raid and Not Turned In as Evidence.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
Release: PHILADELPHIA-Transportation Security Administration officers at Philadelphia International Airport stopped a handgun from getting through the checkpoint on Monday, Jan. 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced today that a four-count indictment charging Gage Predojev, age 22, and Justin Duma, age 22, both of Akron, Ohio, with drug trafficking and firearm offenses was unsealed following the arrest of the defendants.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The EM Office of River Protection (ORP) and contractor Bechtel National, Inc. continue to make progress in their mission to process and stabilize millions of gallons of radioactive and chemical waste currently stored at the Hanford Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal superseding indictment against JOSHOAMEI DEANGELO RICHARDSON, 19, JAMES BROCK WILLIAMS, JR., 20, ISAIAH STACY ALSTAD, 22, CLIFTON GERMAINE WALKER, JR., 23, JORDAN SYDNEY SHAMAH RHODES, 22, and ERIC TROY BALLARD, JR., 18, for conspiracy, firearms violations, and carjacking. All six defendants have been ordered to remain in custody pending further proceedings.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK -Elijah Torres, age 30, of Schenectady, New York, was charged earlier this month with unlawfully possessing a loaded 9mm pistol as a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A Lake County man has been charged in federal court with attempted carjacking for allegedly trying to violently carjack a vehicle at a north suburban golf course last summer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: Member of White Supremacist Prison Gang Guilty of Violent Crime in Aid of Racketeering.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: Today, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), the Republican Leader of the House Committee on Education and Labor, and Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI), the co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Education Innovation and Opportunity, announced their House Resolution celebrating this week as National School Choice Week.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: Today, Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Chairman Bobby L. Rush of the Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Energy, Chair Kathy Castor of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, and Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney of the Committee on Oversight...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is pleased to announce it has begun a special resource study of the Ocmulgee River Corridor to evaluate its potential for designation as a national park unit. The NPS invites the public to comment. On March 12, 2019 the President signed Public Law 116-9; the John D. Dingell...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: For Receiving Child Pornography. HAMMOND - Brian Kunze, 32, of Valparaiso, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Philip P. Simon following his guilty plea to receiving child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Bell. Mr. Kunze was sentenced to 144 months (12 years) in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Charles Clint Gaines, Jr., of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 2, at 11 a.m. (EST) on COVID-19 vaccine distribution and administration. The hearing is entitled, “No Time to Lose: Solutions to Increase COVID-19 Vaccinations in the States."
By DOE Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: The presidents of two EM cleanup contractors have each won a national award for their commitment to safety.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement supporting President Joe Biden’s executive order signaling a renewed federal respect for tribal sovereignty, strengthening the government-to-government relationship between the federal government and American Indian and Alaska Native tribes, furthering self-determination, and advancing racial justice for tribal communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Brookings, South Dakota, man convicted of Distribution and Receipt of Child Pornography was sentenced on Jan. 25, 2021, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: SAN JOSE - Jerry Ji Guo was sentenced today for his role is a scheme to defraud his clients of cash and cryptocurrency in connection with an initial coin offering, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Craig D. Fair. Guo was ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Richard Black, 23, of Litchfield, pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday to distributing fentanyl and possessing fentanyl with intent to distribute, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - A Weldon man was sentenced today to 154 months in prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute a Quantity of Heroin, a Quantity of Cocaine Base (Crack) and a Quantity of Marijuana, and Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
