News from January 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Homestead, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to 12 years of incarceration and 6 years of supervised release on his conviction of possession with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 62-year-old Vidor, Texas woman has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Judge Ronnie L. White sentenced W.T. Cortez Lakes to 77 months in prison today. The 34-year-old St. Louis, Missouri resident pleaded guilty to one count of threatening to assault or murder federal officers and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig announced a Passaic County, New Jersey, man today admitted conspiring to distribute heroin and to distributing a quantity of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: Sarah A. Delashmit, 36, of Highland, Illinois, was sentenced this week to 18 months in.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) today wrote Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) regarding her request for the FBI to investigate Parler for its role in the Capitol attack while ignoring the role other social...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) today welcomed the Republican Members recommended by the House Republican Steering Committee to serve on Transportation and Infrastructure in the 117th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Billy. J. Williams, U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, released the following statement on racist and threatening letters sent to Portland area community leaders and activists.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Robert James Hanna, 38, of Elk Grove, was sentenced today to eight years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: Alleged Leaders of Gangster Disciples Indicted on Federal Racketeering Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: CINCINNATI - A Miami, Fla. man pleaded guilty to conspiring in a racketeering enterprise to defraud individuals through moving companies located throughout the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: DAYTON - A Dayton man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Dayton today to conspiring with others to steal more than 50 firearms from Target World in Sharonville in June 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: Madam President, it is a pleasure tonight to be making the case for Dr. Janet Yellen, former chair of the federal reserve, to be the next Secretary of the Treasury. It is an awfully easy case to make. Chair Janet Yellen deserves to be in the U.S. Senate confirmation hall of fame. She has already been...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Hashim Hussein, a citizen of Kuwait, was sentenced today to 12 months and one day of incarceration for selling cocaine near West Virginia University, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A former captain in the Kansas City, Missouri, Fire Department was sentenced in federal court today for illegally selling dozens of firearms over a five-year period, and to selling firearms to convicted felons.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Armando Arizmendi-Garcia, 24, Bianey Gonzalez-Arizmendi, 28, and Oscar Daniel Martinez-Nunez, 21, have been charged with conspiring to distribute over 30 pounds of crystal methamphetamine. The three defendants are Mexican nationals. Two of the defendants made their initial appearances...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: Defendant agrees to federal prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Andrew Nathan Hernandez, 18, of Bakersfield, was arrested today for aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - The owner of a commercial and residential painting business on Nantucket was charged today with an income diversion and payroll tax scheme resulting in a tax loss that exceeded $2 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Three Colombian nationals pleaded guilty today to possessing with the intent to distribute nearly 1,500 kilograms of cocaine when they were interdicted in an unregistered vessel on the Pacific Ocean.
