News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On March 25, 2021, a federal grand jury returned a nine-count indictment charging Francisco Rodríguez-Muñoz with offenses related to the illegal possession of guns and controlled substances, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - A man is set to appear in federal court on charges he evaded the payment of income tax and committed bankruptcy fraud, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in New Orleans, Louisiana, returned an indictment today charging three Louisiana residents with conspiracy to defraud the IRS. One defendant, Matthew Reck, was additionally charged with making a false statement to federal agents, and the other defendants, Dawn Farrell Ruiz and David Farrell, were charged with aiding in the preparation of false returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A man and a woman from Fayette County were arrested and charged today in connection with sex trafficking a 17-year-old minor female. Larry Allen Clay, Jr., 57, and Kristen Nayl0r-Legg, 28, were both charged by federal criminal complaint with sex trafficking of a minor. Both Clay and Naylor-Legg are detained pending their preliminary hearings scheduled on March 31, 2021.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: Event Round-up: Biden’s Tax Increases Will Gravely Harm Workers, Families, and Main Street Businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Thursday, March 18, 2021, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Michael Christopher Lewis, age 33, of Rock Island, Illinois, to 248 months in prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Controlled Substances, Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - Acting U.S. Attorney Kurt R. Erskine and Chris Hacker, Special Agent in Charge of FBI Atlanta are condemning bigotry, racism, and hatred against the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community and issuing a call for people to report potential discriminatory incidents immediately.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - In January 2019, a worker at a Holiday Inn Express & Suites hotel in Waller alerted their employer that exposure to carbon monoxide made them ill and asked the employer to call an ambulance. In addition to refusing the worker’s request, the employer allegedly threatened to terminate the employee. After going to the hospital, the worker was terminated.
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
Release: The Department of State has renewed the Charter of the Shipping Advisory Committee. The Committee was established to provide a forum for interested members of government and the public-including private citizens, members of the maritime shipping industry, non-governmental organizations, small businesses,...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On March 25, 2021, Christina Erin Myers, 39, of Lenoir City was sentenced by the Honorable Katherine A. Crytzer, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, to serve 63 months in federal prison for Myers’ wire fraud and money laundering convictions arising from her investment fraud scheme to deceive elderly victims. Myers was also ordered to pay more than $400,000 in restitution to her victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - CATHOLINE HAMMETT, age 29, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced on March 24, 2021 by the Honorable Lance Africk, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans. HAMMETT was sentenced to 30 months imprisonment, 3 years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. The defendant was also ordered to pay $633 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, woman has been sentenced in federal court for her role in leading a conspiracy to distribute large amounts of heroin in Greene County, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Pedro Garcia Rondon, of New York, has admitted to a drug charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Alan Trent Harley (62, Chuluota) to 15 months in federal prison for wire fraud. The court also ordered Harley to forfeit more than $870,000, which is traceable to proceeds of the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Jeffery Deroy Lewis, an inmate at Valdosta State Prison, along with Octavius Henry, Alexis Jay Stokley, and Khalid Eugene Mouton, inmates at Hays State Prison, and an accomplice, Jessica Corley Stokley, have been indicted and arraigned on federal drug trafficking and bribery charges stemming from a scheme to smuggle narcotics into Hay State Prison by bribing corrections officer Voltaire Peter Pierre.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: SEATTLE - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers removed a Mexican national Tuesday, who is a dangerous public safety threat with convictions in both Washington and Oregon for egregious crimes including first degree child molestation, first degree attempt to commit sexual penetration, and first degree attempt to commit sexual abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: SENTENCING - BRIAN KEITH MCKENZIE. On March 19, Brian Keith McKenzie, 53, was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison for mailing threatening communications. In February 2018, McKenzie mailed letters to the President and a federal judge containing homicidal and threatening comments. Additionally, McKenzie...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: MISSOULA - A Kalispell man who admitted trafficking methamphetamine he received from a California source was sentenced today to 10 years in prison and to five years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: DENTON, Texas - Preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) are available for review by residents and business owners in all communities and unincorporated areas of Roosevelt County, New Mexico. Property owners are encouraged to review the latest information to learn about local flood risks and potential...
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2021
News Release: Thank you, Ambassador Islam, for welcoming me. It is an honor to speak to you today on this momentous occasion of Bangladesh’s 50th anniversary of independence. On behalf of the U.S. Department of State, I would like to extend my best wishes on Bangladesh’s Golden Jubilee.
