FORT BELVOIR, Virginia, Aug. 22 -- The Defense Threat Reduction Agency issued the following news: By Andrea Chaney, Defense Threat Reduction Agency Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD - The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) leadership attended the Chemical and Biological Weapons Elimination Showcase on August 14 in Aberdeen, Maryland, honoring the 10-year anniversary of the historic rapid destruction of the declared Syrian chemical weapons stockpile aboard the U.S. naval vessel MV Cape Ray. In r  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Aug. 21, 2024: The Justice Department's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) today announced that it will conduct an organizational assessment of the Charlottesville, Virginia, Police Department through its Collaborative Reform Initiative. Over the next year, the Charlottesville Police Department will work with the COPS Office Collaborative Reform Initiative team to focus on: * Co  more

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, Aug. 22 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina issued the following news release on Aug. 20, 2024: Michael Mandel Baldwin, 55, of Alexandria, Virginia, was sentenced today to 27 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release on charges of wire fraud and securities fraud, for orchestrating an $800,000 investment scheme, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Jason Byrnes,  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release: Two men from Texas and Virginia have been arrested for assaulting law enforcement and other charges during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. Their actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Donald Ross Workman, 40, of Hereford, Texas,  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release on Aug. 21, 2024: A Virginia man was arrested today for assaulting law enforcement and other charges related to his alleged conduct during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. His alleged actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Anatoli  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, Aug. 22 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia issued the following news release on Aug. 21, 2024: A Stafford man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. According to court documents, on Oct. 2, 2023, the Stafford County Sheriff's Office recovered a parcel with 16,245 counterfeit blue oxycodone pills containing fentanyl and stamped with "M30." On Oct. 17, 2023, agents executed a search war  more

BECKLEY, West Virginia, Aug. 22 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on Aug. 21, 2024: Jack Paskin, 34, of Nelsonville, Ohio, pleaded guilty today to money laundering. According to court documents and statements made in court, from in or about mid-summer 2019 to on or about August 31, 2020, Paskin facilitated the shipment of wholesale quantities of marijuana to Mullens, West Virginia. Merrick admitted that the shipments  more