News from January 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2021
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Honeywell has sentenced Tavares Speaight (25, Tampa) to two years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The court also ordered Speaight to forfeit the firearm and ammunition used in the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2021
News Release: Tyler, TX - The U.S. Marshals Joint East Texas Fugitive Task Force (JETFTF) brought 813 felony fugitives to justice during 2020, bringing the arrest total to 20,305 since its inception back in 2004. These arrests resulted in 1,204 felony warrants being cleared in 2020, adding to the total of 26,774 warrants closed since the JETFTF was formed. Many of the fugitives the JETFTF apprehends are wanted on more than one state and/or federal arrest warrant.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2021
News Release: As part of an ongoing investigation into gang-related drug trafficking and related violence in Bridgeport, a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging four Bridgeport men with conspiring to engage in a pattern of racketeering activity, including drug trafficking, murder and attempted murder.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Government Operations Subcommittee Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) today called out President Biden for rescinding the Trump Administration’s executive order creating a new Schedule F for federal employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announces the sentencing of TERRENCE NEALY, age 33, of Rockville Centre, New York, by U.S. District Judge Martin L.C. Feldman. On Jan. 20, 2021, Judge Feldman sentenced NEALY to 33 months in prison pursuant to his prior guilty plea to one count of conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2021
News Release: Elvin Lugo-Cales, 47, of Orlando, Florida, and Johnny Collado, 30, of Bronx, New York, pleaded.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Sasha Rand, 34, of Farmington, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison on Thursday for fentanyl trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2021
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - An Oldham County man was sentenced Wednesday in United States District Court by United States District Judge Benjamin J. Beaton to 132 months (11 years) in prison for charges of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, possession of firearms by a prohibited person, and conspiracy to launder drug proceeds, announced Acting United States Attorney Michael A. Bennett.
By State Newswire | Jan 22, 2021
News Release: Dear Mr. President: As you take office as our 46th President, we are acutely aware of the slate of critical global challenges facing the United States and our allies that will require immediate and sustained attention from the White House and executive branch agencies. As you chart out initial priorities...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Janet Olatimbo Akindipe, 62, of Laurel, Maryland, was sentenced today to 13 months in prison for defrauding the D.C. Medicaid program out of more than a quarter million dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2021
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Yesterday, Tacal Charles Hart, 35, of Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Scott H. Rash to ten years in prison for possession of ammunition by a convicted felon. Hart previously pleaded guilty on Feb. 18, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2021
News Release: CONCORD, NH - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Sasha Rand, 34, of Farmington, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for fentanyl trafficking.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 22, 2021
News Release: Berlin, MD - Congratulations to the 2020 Assateague Island National Seashore Superintendent’s Award recipients Kelly Taylor and Logan Tucker. 2020 was a year full of unique challenges and this year’s Superintendent’s Award was given to two employees who have provided outstanding support to park visitors...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2021
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge William F. Jung has sentenced William Johnson (31, Holiday) to 12 years and 7 months in federal prison for participating in a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 400 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl and for possessing 400 grams or more of fentanyl with the intent to distribute it.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A member of the San Fernando Valley-based Vineland Boys street gang pleaded guilty today to five felonies, including the attempted murder of three rival gangsters, drug trafficking and illegal firearms sales, including a “ghost gun."
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 22, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) played a key role in supporting security measures for the 59th Presidential Inauguration. In the days leading up to Jan. 20, hundreds of TSA personnel from across the country deployed to the National Capital Region to assist with physical...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Camp Springs, Maryland man was sentenced today to 140 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, which led to the seizure of over $1 million in cash, approximately 45 kilograms of cocaine, over $240,000 worth of jewelry, four firearms, and body armor-piercing ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Clarence Michael Ransom, 53, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, was sentenced on Jan. 20 to 35 years in federal prison for attempted production of child pornography, international parental kidnapping and failure to report international travel as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Calabasas-based real estate developer has been indicted in a bankruptcy fraud case that also alleges he laundered funds through shell companies in order to hide them from his creditors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2021
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Yesterday, Daniel Escalante, 43, of Tucson, Arizona was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Rosemary Marquez to 15 years in prison. Escalante previously pleaded guilty on Aug. 28, 2019, to one count of kidnapping, three counts of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, and one count of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
