News from January 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Ingvue Buchanan, 57, Jamestown, NY, who was convicted of being a felon-in-possession of a firearm, was sentenced, by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr., to serve 36 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Maine man was charged yesterday in federal court in Boston for travelling to have sex with a minor and child pornography offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Wally Roy Carter, 61, of Kotzebue, Alaska, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for sex trafficking of a minor. Carter was arrested on Thursday, Dec. 17, and has remained incarcerated since his arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Mark Coleman, 57, a former Jackson Police Officer, pled guilty today before United States District Judge Tom S. Lee to obstruction of a federal investigation by destroying and concealing text messages and images of a minor female, announced Acting United States Attorney Darren LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Michelle Sutphin with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: In a typical year, beginning on March 1, visitors to Rocky Mountain National Park could make their wilderness campsite reservation request in person through a lottery system or online. Due to current public health guidance related to Covid-19, there will not be any in-person Wilderness Campsite Reservation...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today called out Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) for demanding dozens of private businesses to surveil their guests and customers and suggesting even temporarily shutting down their business as a result of the violence...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), filed an amicus brief today in the case of Competitive Enterprise Institute, et al. v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), et al., which is currently pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Orange County man was sentenced today 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 DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Defendant admitted to his involvement in assault of gang members.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), filed an amicus brief today in the case of Competitive Enterprise Institute, et al. v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), et al., which is currently pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: The National Park Service is announcing a 30-day public review on a written determination to allow bicycle use on the newly constructed Arches Visitor Center Connector Trail, which connects the Arches National Park visitor center to the Moab Canyon Pathway.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Catherine D. Perry sentenced James Lamont Fields to 120 months in prison today. The 23-year-old St. Louis resident pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and one count of felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Stephen Yochim, 48, of Albuquerque, made his initial appearance on Jan. 19 in federal court where he was charged with transmitting threatening interstate communications. A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Jan. 26.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
Release: Tarak Shah to Serve as Chief of Staff, David G. Huizenga to Serve as Acting Secretary
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Utah-based cocaine trafficker was sentenced today in federal court in Boston after previously being convicted by a federal jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Concord, NH - The United States Marshals Service is very pleased to announce the arrest of a violent fugitive, Darien James Young. Young, 27 years-of-age, whose last known address was in Somersworth, NH was arrested around noon today in Dover, New Hampshire.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
News Release: HARRISONBURG, Va.- A Front Royal, Virginia man, who in the fall of 2017 distributed two fatal, fentanyl-laced doses of heroin, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Harrisonburg to a drug charge that carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years in prison, and the possibility of a life sentence...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
News Release: Fort Lauderdale, FL. - Two defendants were sentenced last week in federal court for their roles in an international firearms trafficking ring. On Monday, Jan. 11, 2021, Naomi Natal Haynes, 41, a citizen of Canada and United States legal resident, was sentenced to 84 months in prison by United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Angel Romeu, age 37, of St. Clair, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Jan. 15, 2021 to 127 months’ imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, for conspiracy to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced Hugo Gomez, age 34, of Laredo, Texas, to 240 months in federal prison following his convictions for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, possession of a firearm ...
