Source: United States Navy
SUITLAND, Md. – On Sept. 10, 2021, families, friends, and colleagues gathered at the National Maritime Intelligence Center (NMIC) to mark the 20th anniversary of the loss of eight Naval Intelligence shipmates serving at the Chief of Naval Operations Intelligence Plot (CNO-IP) during the attacks on the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
Source: United States Department of Justice News
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A former U.S. Navy pilot who admitted to coercing a minor to engage in illicit sexual conduct and to distributing, receiving, and possessing child pornography, all while actively serving in the U.S. Navy and following his retirement from active service, was sentenced today to life in federal prison, announced Acting United States Attorney Richard B. Myrus.
Source: United States Department of Justice
A federal court in the Southern District of Florida has permanently enjoined a West Palm Beach tax return preparer from preparing federal income tax returns for others and from owning, operating, managing, assisting or working at any tax return preparation business in the future.
Source: United States Navy
Information Systems Technician 3rd Class Matthew Coyle, a Sailor assigned to USS The Sullivans (DDG 68), is too young to personally remember that day. However, several of his family members exhibited true selflessness and bravery at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, and their bold actions continue to inspire Coyle in his naval career.
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Crime News (b)
Director Christopher Wray has named Jermicha Fomby as the special agent in charge of the Jackson Field Office in Mississippi. Mr. Fomby most recently served as a section chief in the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington.
Mr. Fomby joined the FBI as a special agent in 2003 and was assigned to the Akron Resident Agency of the Cleveland Field Office, where he investigated criminal matters. In 2006, he transferred to the New York Field Office and investigated Albanian organized crime.
Mr. Fomby also worked major drug-trafficking, organized crime, and public corruption investigations. In addition, he was an instructor for an FBI program that trained foreign investigators in undercover work in public corruption and counterterrorism cases.
In 2010, Mr. Fomby deployed to the Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan and served as the executive officer in support of FBI international operations.
In 2013, he was promoted to supervisory special agent in the New York Field Office’s National Security Human Intelligence Squad. In 2014, he developed and led the Hudson Valley White Collar Crime Task Force in the Hudson Valley Resident Agency in New Windsor.
Mr. Fomby was assigned to the Inspection Division at Headquarters in 2016 and served as an assistant inspector and team leader. He was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of the El Paso Field Office in Texas in 2018, responsible for the criminal, intelligence, administrative, and resident agency programs.
In 2019, Mr. Fomby was promoted to section chief in the Criminal Investigative Division at Headquarters, where he was responsible for strategic intelligence for several criminal programs. The next year, he served as chief of CID’s Violent Crime Section, responsible for gang, violent crimes, human trafficking, and sexual exploitation of children programs.
Mr. Fomby earned a bachelor’s from Miles College in Birmingham, Alabama; a master’s in organizational management from Tusculum College in Greenville, Tennessee; and a master’s in education from Seton Hall University in East Orange, New Jersey. Prior to joining the FBI, he served on active duty in the U.S Army.