News from January 2021
By State Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: A Tulsa man was sentenced today in federal court for trying to stop a victim from testifying against him, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that United States District Judge Terry F. Moorer sentenced defendant Mitchell Finney, 52, a former deputy of the Clarke County Sheriff’s Office, to three years of probation for deprivation of rights under color of law. Finney was convicted of that offense on October 7, 2020, following a jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - The mastermind behind an extensive drug trafficking ring entered a guilty plea this week, and four other defendants either entered pleas or were sentenced recently to substantial terms in prison for distributing large amounts of fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine in Newport News and North Carolina.
By EPA 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: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza has sentenced Raymond Lee Kelly (53, Cocoa) to 19 years and 7 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Because of his extensive criminal record, which includes drug trafficking, resisting arrest with violence, battery ...
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: For Producing Child Pornography. HAMMOND-Antonio M. Blunt, 41, of Hobart, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Philip P. Simon following his guilty plea to a production of child pornography charge, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Bell. Blunt was sentenced to 180 months (15 years)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Richard Stanton, 34, of Hope, Maine pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to multiple charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Two men were sentenced in United States District Court for trafficking methamphetamine, Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Quincee Zohnnie, 24, of Shiprock, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, appeared in federal court on Jan. 28 on one count of assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. Zohnnie was ordered detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Richard Stanton, 34, of Hope, Maine pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to multiple charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Rafael Sanchez, Jr., 41, of Hanford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to seven years and three months in prison for orchestrating a large-scale firearms trafficking ring, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Joseph Ransome, 51, of Indian Trail, N.C., pleaded guilty to wire fraud today, for defrauding the COVID-19 Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefit program, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - The mastermind behind an extensive drug trafficking ring entered a guilty plea this week, and four other defendants either entered pleas or were sentenced recently to substantial terms in prison for distributing large amounts of fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine in Newport News and North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities have arrested an Inglewood man on a federal narcotics trafficking charge following an investigation that determined he ordered bulk quantities of at least one chemical used to make PCP and a search that led to the discovery over 2 kilograms of the drug, the Justice Department announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today announced the promotion of Naomi Miguel to staff director of the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States (SCIP) and Ariana Romeo to professional staffer at the Subcommittee. Miguel had been a professional staffer and Romeo had been a policy aide.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced today that United States District Judge Terry F. Moorer sentenced defendant Stanley Young, a/k/a “New York," a/k/a “Shoota," 32, of Selma, Alabama, to imprisonment for 17 years for committing an armed bank robbery. As part of the sentence, the judge ordered that Young undergo five years of supervised release, pay $47,423 in restitution, and pay a $200 mandatory special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: Justice Department Seeks to Shut Down Louisiana Tax Return Preparers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: Federal law enforcement officials announced today that eight individuals were charged for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed at least 10 kilograms of cocaine and other drugs in the Lorain, Elyria and Cleveland areas. The charges were unsealed in two separate indictments. Seven defendants have been arrested and one, Mohammad HAMID, remains a fugitive.
