News from January 2021
By State Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
Release: The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), a leading international organization in the field of tall buildings and urban sustainability, honored the U.S. Embassy in London as a 2020 Award of Excellence Winner in the Best Tall Building Under 100 Meters category.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the Biden Administration announcing today that masks will be required on public modes of transportation, including on planes, trains, buses, and at airports...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Alexandra F. Foster (619) 546-6735.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CARLOS BARNES, also known as “Buddha," 29, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer to 57 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing two firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Defendant committed offense while serving federal supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that Terry Alan Blackmon, Jr., 34, of Michigan, was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Roger Keeling, 54, of Fairbanks has been indicted by a federal grand jury for stalking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: DETROIT - United States Attorney Matthew Schneider submitted his resignation letter to President Biden yesterday shortly after the President was sworn into office. Schneider’s last day as the United States Attorney will be Feb. 1, 2021. After his resignation, he will immediately join a private law firm based in Detroit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Bradley Kruger, 20, of Fairbanks, has been indicted for Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Rhode Island man was sentenced in federal court in Boston in connection with his fentanyl and fentanyl analogue distribution activities in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Weisbly conspired to distribute 70 pounds of methamphetamine across California, Iowa and South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Providence, R.I. man pleaded guilty today to illegal possession of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Cleveland, Ohio - Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced today that a federal indictment charging Adrian Joseph-Todd, age 25, of Okemos, Michigan, with one count of possession with intent to distribute tetrahydrocannabinols was unsealed this week following the arrest of the defendant.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jonathan Singletary a/k/a Freeze, 38, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of obstructing an official proceeding, was sentenced to serve 62 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Miami, Fl. -- Sergei Nkorina, a 55-year-old American citizen indicted in the Southern District of Florida on kidnapping charges, arrived in Miami last night on a flight from Spain pursuant to a request from the U.S. government to extradite the fugitive.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Man Pleads Guilty to COVID-19 Relief Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to fentanyl trafficking.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is accepting comment on an environmental assessment (EA) that addresses the environmental impacts of releasing the insects Bikasha collaris and Gadirtha fusca to biologically control the invasive Chinese tallow tree (Triadica sebifera) in the contiguous United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Jan. 20, 2021, a federal grand jury returned an eight-count indictment charging William Cintrón Rivera, a.k.a. “El Kid"/“Kid" with the theft of 54 guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Kevin C. Bui, of Fort Walton Beach, was sentenced yesterday to 78 months in federal prison following his August conviction on drug and money laundering conspiracy charges. Bui and four co-conspirators trafficked thousands of pounds of marijuana into North Florida from California...
