News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An inmate at Allegheny County Jail, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of possessing contraband while in prison, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Fayette County man pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of firearms. Jonathan Fields, 38, was indicted by a federal grand jury in August 2020, and charged with two counts of being a felon in possession of ammunition and one count of being a felon in possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - Olivia Ware, a former candidate for Mayor of the City of Conyers, has been arraigned on federal charges of bank fraud and money laundering stemming from a scheme to use a company she started to steal over $323,000 from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Brandon Garcia, 22, of Jersey City, NJ, was sentenced to 14 years and nine months (or 177 months) in prison, and 4 years of supervised release by United States District Court Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl for the armed robbery of a Speedway gas station and convenience store in Allentown, PA on March 28, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Jose Morely Chocron Laundered More Than $500,000; Admits to Operating an Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - A coalition of congressional leaders from the Senate Committee on Finance and the House Committee on Oversight and Reform today urged the Biden administration to finalize a rule to reform the organ procurement system in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Florence man, John P. Darnell, 65, was sentenced on Friday to 248 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, for conspiring with others to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By State Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Ahead of Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya appearing at her first public hearing before the U.S. Congress, Representatives McCaul and Meeks, the Lead Republican and Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Representatives Keating and Fitzpatrick, the Chair...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - The owner of several bogus charitable organizations in Georgia pleaded guilty today to filing false tax returns.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered the following remarks at a full committee hearing on transportation technologies.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Wendell Mario Roy (39, Taylor, MI), a/k/a Chico, to 10 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl and conspiracy to commit money laundering. He was also ordered to serve a 5-year term of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The National Park Service (NPS) has selected Hanako Wakatsuki to serve as the first superintendent of Honouliuli National Historic Site in Honolulu, Hawaii. Wakatsuki has been the acting Chief of Interpretation and Education at Pearl Harbor National Memorial since October 2020 and acting site manager at Honouliuli National Historic Site since November 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: An Iraqi national has appeared in U.S. District Court in Savannah after his indictment on charges related to the attempted smuggling of firearms to Iraq.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Lucia Rose DiEmidio, 28, a former background investigator who did work under contract for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), pled guilty today to a charge stemming from her falsification of work on background investigations of federal employees and contractors, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Steve Garduno was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for methamphetamine trafficking, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - On Saturday, March 13, a pilot supporting park wildlife studies saw the first grizzly bear of 2021. From the air, the pilot watched the bear interact with wolves at a carcass in the northern part of the park. This is the first sighting of a grizzly bear in the park this year, although tracks have been seen on several occasions in the last two weeks.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: HONOLULU - Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) assisted Maui Police in an undercover operation that busted several child predators over the weekend. The sting that began March 12, included officers, special agents and analysts who posed as minors on the internet and targeted those intending to meet children for sexual activity. Seven people were arrested for Violations of Electronic Enticement of a Minor, by the time the operation concluded Sunday.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Lee County resident was sentenced today in federal court in Greensboro for knowingly possessing a firearm after previously being convicted of a felony, announced Acting United States Attorney Sandra J. Hairston of the Middle District of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following remarks at a hearing entitled, “Made in America: Effect of the U.S. Tax Code on Domestic Manufacturing.".
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Damien Hayes, 24, of Natchez, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III to 18 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for possessing a stolen firearm, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
