News from January 2021
By DOE Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) today announced additional senior staff for the Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Jose Carlos Cisneros-Legarda, 22 of Albuquerque, made his initial appearance in federal court on Jan. 28 where he was charged with possession with intent to distribute heroin, possessing a firearm during the commission of a drug trafficking crime and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Cisneros-Legarda will remain detained pending a preliminary hearing scheduled for Feb. 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Luis Angel Rodriguez, 27, of La Mesa, New Mexico, made his initial appearance in federal court today where he was charged with knowingly derailing a train. Rodriguez will remain detained pending a preliminary hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced today that a federal grand jury sitting in Cleveland returned a three-count indictment charging Dewayne Taylor, age 31, of Harrisburg, PA, with forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding or interfering with federal law enforcement officer; using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence; and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced on Friday a seven-count indictment charging New Orleans Police Detective CHANTELLE DAVIS, New Orleans Police Officer LYNEA SANDERS, and five other former United States Army reservists with stealing more than $100,000 from the United States Department of the Army by claiming reimbursement for the performance of military funeral honors ceremonies that never happened.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and New Haven Police Chief Otoniel Reyes today announced that, on Jan. 19, 2021, a federal grand jury in New Haven returned...
By State Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS - A Lame Deer man on Jan. 28 admitted to assaulting a woman on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: Kelly Thornton (619) 546-9726. NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - Jan. 29, 2020. SAN DIEGO - Several federal prosecutors have received awards from the San Diego Drug Enforcement Administration for exemplary service and dedication to the mission of the DEA in San Diego and Imperial counties. The recipients -...
By State Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
Release: Total count of independent states: 195.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: DALLAS - An investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Dallas and the North Texas Trafficking Task Force led to the arrest of a 33-year-old Dallas man for human trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Bernardino County man was charged today with running an unlicensed company that exchanged tens of millions of dollars in Bitcoin and cash.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Highmore, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor announced today that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued stronger worker safety guidance to help employers and workers implement a coronavirus prevention program and better identify risks which could lead to exposure and contraction. Last week, President Biden directed OSHA to release clear guidance for employers to help keep workers safe from COVID-19 exposure.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: One defendant involved in Durham courthouse shooting; another led officers on a vehicle and foot chase.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: The Department of Justice today commemorates the 10th annual National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month and declares a continued commitment to combatting human trafficking in all its forms. The fight against human trafficking remains one of the department’s highest priorities, and the department will remain relentless in its efforts to bring traffickers to justice and seek justice for survivors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EVERSLEY BARRETT, a tax preparer and owner of a tax preparation business named Eversley Tax, in New Windsor, New York, was sentenced yesterday in White Plains federal court to six months in prison after previously...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS - A Cody, Wyoming, man who admitted violating a protective order by stalking and harassing a Laurel woman and her family was sentenced today to 37 months in prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $3,600 in restitution, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C.- House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Republican Subcommittee Leader for Energy Fred Upton (R-MI), and Republican Subcommittee Leader for the Environment and Climate Change David McKinley (R-WV) issued the following joint statement regarding President Biden’s climate agenda.
