News from March 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 9, 2021
Release: Congressman Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Chair of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's oversight hearing on the FDA’s Foreign Drug Inspections Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2021
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: An Augusta man has been sentenced to nearly 10 years in federal prison for a scheme that distributed methamphetamine in the Augusta area.
By State Newswire | Mar 9, 2021
Release: Today marks 14 years since Iran abducted beloved husband, father, grandfather and former FBI agent Robert “Bob" Levinson. In December, the United States sanctioned two high-ranking officials of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security who were involved in the abduction, detention and likely death of Bob Levinson. However, this case is not closed.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 9, 2021
News Release: UNION CITY, Tenn. - A two-day joint undercover operation, aimed at individuals seeking commercial sex acts with minors, resulted in the arrest of five Tennessee and Kentucky residents.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - To support Department of Homeland Security (DHS) research and development (R&D) technology needs, the DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) released its annual announcement of the LRBAA. This announcement calls out 23 topics, including eleven new topics, two updated topics, and ten...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2021
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Chatham County man who admitted deliberately setting the May 3, 2020, fire that destroyed the city of Savannah’s Code Enforcement Office has been sentenced to federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2021
News Release: OAKLAND - Rocky Lee Music was sentenced to five years in prison for carjacking, announced Acting United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and FBI Special Agent in Charge Craig D. Fair. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland has seized “usaregenermedicals.com," which purported to sell and distribute REGEN-COV2, an antibody drug cocktail approved for the treatment of COVID-19 virus. However, the website was fraudulent and instead appears to have...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2021
News Release: The Defendant Paid an Individual Overseas to Live Stream the Sexual Abuse of Children.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DANIEL SCOTT, 32, of Norwich, pleaded guilty today to one count of making interstate threats.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 9, 2021
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - They are three weeks into an eight-week maintenance outage, and crews are making steady progress to help keep the vital national mission of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) moving forward.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2021
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jean Green-Alvarez, 34, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to being felon in possession of a firearm. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Estel Henry Cook, Jr., age 56, of North East, Maryland, to 95 months in federal prison, followed by 25 years of supervised release, for possession of child pornography. Jude Bennett ordered Cook to pay $3,000 in restitution. Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2021
News Release: Defendant was advisor to Massachusetts Latin Kings Leadership.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 57 months’ imprisonment followed by six years of supervised release on his conviction for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2021
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 52-year-old man has been ordered to federal prison after he admitted to one count of money laundering, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2021
News Release: Dr. Hugo A. Rojas, owner of Hugo A. Rojas, M.D., P.A., and Family Clinics of San Antonio, has agreed to pay $350,000.00 under a civil settlement to resolve allegations he violated certain provisions of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and the False Claims Act (FCA), announced U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel Comeaux, Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2021
News Release: Scott Robinson also Ordered to Forfeit Over $3,000,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2021
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Former San Francisco public official Sandra Zuniga, charged in an information filed yesterday with conspiracy to commit money laundering, agreed in a plea agreement filed today to plead guilty and to cooperate with federal investigators in the corruption investigation into San Francisco...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2021
News Release: Hot Springs, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Mark Joseph Geurin, age 32, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, was sentenced to 130 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. The Honorable Chief Judge Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Hot Springs.
