News from January 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Rhode Island man was sentenced yesterday 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: Gulfport, Miss. - Lawrence Lavoy Jackson, 36, of Pascagoula, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 45 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Jackson was also ordered to pay a $3,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Marine Corps Civilian Employee Pleads Guilty to Assaulting His Spouse.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester couple was arrested today and charged in connection with fraudulently applying for business loans under the CARES Act, and then spending the money on personal expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A former Regional Officer for the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") pleaded guilty today to racketeering charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Made false statements on applications for more than $1 million in COVID-19 relief funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Alfred Morgan, 35, of Aniak, has been indicted for Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
Release: MADISON, Wis. - Two state-of-the-art advanced technology Computed Tomography (CT) checkpoint scanners that provide 3-D imaging have been installed and are in use at the Transportation Security Administration checkpoints at the Dane County Regional Airport (MSN).
By DOE Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after President Biden signed ten executive orders to contain the COVID-19 crisis...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - Camelia Revels, a former case manager at HOPE Atlanta, and Katrise Jones, a property agent, have pleaded guilty to a criminal information charging them with conspiring to steal approximately $124,000 in federal funds intended to help homeless veterans.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) urged the Biden Administration to immediately delay the effective dates of harmful “midnight regulations" that the Trump Administration hastily finished as part of their last-ditch effort to impart their will on the American...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Lawrence Lavoy Jackson, 36, of Pascagoula, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 45 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Jackson was also ordered to pay a $3,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Immediately following his inauguration, President Joe Biden signed Executive Orders that take critical first steps to address the climate crisis, create good union jobs, and advance environmental justice, while reversing the previous administration’s harmful policies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that Holly Urlahs, also known as Holly Anderson, 32, of Elkview, was sentenced to two years in federal prison for bank fraud and forging a judge’s signature. Urlahs will also serve a three year term of supervised release upon completion of her prison sentence.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - An Orange County man was sentenced Jan. 21, 2021, to 292 months in federal prison for travelling out of state to sexually abuse minors - including a 6-year-old girl - and for inducing minors to send him sexually explicit videos of themselves.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) today issued the following statement after announcing the Republican subcommittee leaders and subcommittee rosters for the 117th Congress.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray requesting a comprehensive investigation into the role that the social media site Parler played in the assault on the Capitol on January 6.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Tribal Ranger’s actions justified as self-defense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal criminal complaint has been filed in Maryland charging Cody Wolf Gideon Mohr, age 27, of Columbia, Maryland, on the federal charges of making Internet threats to destroy a building by use of explosive. The criminal complaint was signed on Jan. 20, 2021, and Mohr was arrested late that day.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Bryron Shontell McFadden, 41 and Roberta Ruth Sielak, 30, of Utqiagvik, Alaska, were indicted on drug trafficking charges, conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and attempt to possess controlled substances with intent to distribute.
