News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on March 23, 2021, JAVANTI COLER, age 25, a resident of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, was sentenced to serve 57 months in the custody of the United States Bureau of Prisons. When he is released from prison, he will be on supervised release for a period of three years. COLER pled guilty back on December 8, 2020 to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: Every American Will Shoulder Burden of President Biden’s Recovery-Killing Tax Grab.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Gainesville, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for coercing a minor victim to engage in illicit sexual activity.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) released the following statement after receiving a briefing from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) regarding the business reform plan released earlier this week...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - Three individuals were charged today in connection with a drug trafficking conspiracy involving cocaine, cocaine base, fentanyl and methamphetamine supplied by sources in Massachusetts and spanning into Maine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: TULSA, Okla.- Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson has released the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A coordinated law enforcement effort has resulted in the arrest of multiple individuals for conspiring to distribute narcotics and firearm violations, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: An Arizona man who held up an Army National Guard convoy at gunpoint on Monday has been federally charged, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: REGION 1 - The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded $1,256,800 to the New Hampshire Department of Safety for creating and maintaining an alternate care site at Langley Hall on the campus of NHTI - Concord’s Community College.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Hanalei Aipoalani, 42, of Waianae, Hawaii, pled guilty in federal court today to embezzling more than $500,000 from AmeriCorps and to agreeing to accept a bribe for the administration of grants under the CARES Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Acting U.S. Attorney William T. Stetzer announced that Gevon Marquise King and Michael Dwane Williams were sentenced to prison late yesterday for selling stolen firearms and related firearm offenses. U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell sentenced King, 35, of Hickory, N.C., to 144 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered Williams, 22, also of Hickory, to serve 72 months in prison and two years under court supervision.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - An Elkhorn City, Ky., man was indicted Thursday, on charges of bank fraud and filing false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: CHEYENNE - Acting United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today the unsealing of an indictment, under U.S. District Court Docket Number 21-CR-29-S, charging CHRISTOPHER KENT PODLESNIK, 51, of Laramie, Wyoming, with seven counts of transmitting threats in interstate commerce. In the indictment, a federal grand jury charged Podlesnik with leaving voicemail messages threatening various elected officials on Jan. 28, 2021, including members of Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: Historic level of enforcement action during national health emergency continues.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: Defendants conspired to transport large quantities of controlled substances from Massachusetts to Maine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that Sonia Tabizada, 36, of San Jacinto, California, was sentenced to 15 months and 13 days for intentionally obstructing persons in the enjoyment of their free exercise of religious beliefs by threatening to bomb the Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A second man from California has been charged with conspiring to launder money that originated from fraudulently obtained loans from the U.S. Small Business Association and from a business email compromise scheme that targeted a law firm based in New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on Imperial Frozen Foods Op Co LLC (Imperial), Wake Forest, N.C., for violating the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). These sanctions include barring the business and the principal operator of the business from engaging in PACA-licensed business or other activities without approval from USDA.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: Region1- The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and FEMA announce today a partnership to expand access to the COVID-19 vaccine by bringing 6,000 federal doses daily to the Hynes Convention Center vaccination site, for a total of 7,000 doses per day when combined with the state’s current allocation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Paul Osborne, 62, of Victorville, California, was sentenced on March 24 in federal court in Santa Fe to 14 months in prison for crimes that affected interstate commerce with intent to defraud. Osborne pleaded guilty on June 23, 2020.
