News from January 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Christopher T. Engle, of Bunker Hill, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 41 months of incarceration for wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that Tyrice Perkins, 24, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Beckley, was sentenced to 12 months in prison for possessing a weapon at the correctional facility. This sentence is to run consecutively to the sentence he currently is serving. He also was sentenced to three years of supervised release following his imprisonment.
By State Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC-Today, Representatives Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Michael McCaul, the Committee’s Ranking Member, released a joint statement praising the decision by Kelu Chao, acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) to name three highly-qualified...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: St. Marys, GA- Cumberland Island National Seashore will carry out a prescribed burn tomorrow, Tuesday, January 26th of a debris pile located on the southern end of the island at a location known locally as Raccoon Key. The operation will be conducted weather permitting. Impacts are expected to be minimal though visitors may see and smell some smoke when near the area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that Jordan Dewayne Jeffrey, 24, of Akron, Ohio, was sentenced to 52 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: MESA, Ariz. - A local area man was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Jan. 7, for sex trafficking three women, including one minor, in a probe spearheaded by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Mesa Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: Defendant caught on surveillance coordinating with black-clad group to disable exit doors, place combustibles near building to start fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: Altered records provided to investigators of a fatal crash of a company driver.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Speaker Nancy Pelosi today announced that the House Committee on Homeland Security and other House Committees have reached an agreement on a Memorandum of Understanding on jurisdictional issues regarding the Department of Homeland Security...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced that Kahlid Blyden appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller and entered a plea of guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute marijuana, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 841(a)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jeffrey Costillo, 33, Blaine, Minnesota, and Denise Kraimer, 27, Columbia Heights, Minnesota, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley for conspiring to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A former PG&E employee was sentenced today to 22 months in prison and ordered to pay $1,476,295 in restitution for a conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and receiving kickback payments from a Stockton transportation company owned by his cousin, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: Texas Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles City Councilmember Mitchell Englander was sentenced this morning to 14 months in federal prison for his conduct surrounding his obstruction of a public corruption investigation into his acceptance of gifts - including $15,000 in cash - from a businessman during trips to Las Vegas and Palm Springs in 2017.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: I am honored to present the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) 2021 Strategic Plan-a guiding document that is very much indicative of how we’ve both changed and evolved at S&T since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to this global event, our...
By State Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: Christopher Le Mon serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at the U.S. Department of State, where he oversees DRL’s work on Near Eastern Affairs, Security and Human Rights, and International Labor Affairs. Previously, from 2017 to 2021, he was Washington Director for Crisis Action, an international human rights advocacy NGO.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man today admitted conspiring to distribute heroin and to distributing a quantity of heroin, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Dominican national that led a conspiracy that imported at least ten kilograms of heroin and five kilograms of cocaine from California, and who conspired with others to work at his direction to store, process, and package the drugs in an apartment he rented in West Warwick to be used as a stash house, has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - Thirteen Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials from across Upstate New York played a vital role in supporting security measures for the 59th Presidential Inauguration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: MIAMI, Florida -- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations (IRS-CI), Miami Field Office, are warning taxpayers about a new wave of COVID-19-related scams as the agency delivers the second round of Economic Impact Payments.
