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Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree under the Clean Air Act discussed on Jan. 30 by Justice Department

The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: Katie R. Crews, 29, of Jeffersonville, Indiana, was sentenced to two years of probation, 200 hours of community service and a $5,000 fine for violating an individual’s rights by using excessive force while acting as a police officer for the Louisville Metro Police Department.


National Institute of Justice Examines Need for Racial and Ethnic Equity in School Safety Approaches

News Release: The Office of Justice Programs' National Institute of Justice today published an overview of the literature on school safety in the United States, with a focus on equity. The report comes as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the national outcry to address systemic racism have highlighted the continuing...


News Release: MIAMI - Más de dos docenas de individuos han sido imputados en el Distrito Sur de Florida por su presunta participación en un ardid de fraude electrónico que creó un método abreviado de empleo y licenciatura ilegal para aspirantes a enfermeros(as).


Carlton L. Peeples Named Special Agent in Charge of the Birmingham Field Office

News Release: Carlton L. Peeples Named Special Agent in Charge of the Birmingham Field Office.


News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - Robert Sherman Kerber, age 32, of Council Bluffs, was sentenced on Jan. 25, 2023, to 60 months in prison following his plea of guilty to Receipt of Child Pornography. Kerber will be required to register as a sex offender and serve five years of supervised release following his release from prison. Kerber was also ordered to pay restitution.


News Release: Washington D.C. - On Nov. 6, a concerned neighbor conducted a welfare check on an elderly man not seen in weeks. At the home, located in the 200 block of Jennifer Lane, Seneca, South Carolina, the neighbor made the grisly discovery of a decomposing body and called authorities. During the death investigation, authorities made their own discovery - the dead man was 15 Most Wanted fugitive Frederick Cecil McLean who had been on the run for more than 16 years.


News Release: Robert C. Kissane Named Special Agent in Charge of the Counterterrorism Division at the New York Field Office.


News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Saudi Arabian man was charged for transporting a stolen school bus across state lines, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.


Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Firearm and Drug Trafficking Charges Stemming from Shootout at New Orleans Hotel

News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today, that MALIK FERNANDEZ, age 23, from New Orleans, pled guilty on Jan. 24, 2023 to various firearm and drug charges. His guilty plea stems from his participation in a Dec. 28, 2020, shootout at the Jung Hotel on Canal Street.


News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Rock Port, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to selling fentanyl to another Atchison County, Mo., man that resulted in his fatal overdose.


News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JUSTIN HENRY, age 41, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged on Jan. 26, 2023 in a one-count indictment for being a felon in possession of a firearm.


Bremerton Couple Sentenced to Prison for Distributing Significant Amounts of Fentanyl and Meth

News Release: Tacoma - A Bremerton, Washington couple was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to lengthy prison terms for possession of narcotics with intent to distribute, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. David Berryhill, 46, was sentenced to 90 months in prison and his fiancé Jamie Kelly, 50, was sentenced...


News Release: A federal court today entered a consent decree of permanent injunction prohibiting LGM Pharma LLC, a Florida company, from distributing active pharmaceutical ingredients not manufactured, processed, or held in compliance with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA).


News Release: HOT SPRINGS - A Hot Springs man was sentenced on Jan. 27, to 97 months in 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 U.S. District Court in Hot Springs.


News Release: DES MOINES, IA - Jacob Chance Greer, age 27 of Des Moines, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for knowingly receiving child pornography. Greer was also ordered to pay restitution of $12,000 to victims of the child pornography he collected and placed on supervised release for a term of five years after his prison term. He is also required to register as a sex offender.


News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Rock Port, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to selling fentanyl to another Atchison County, Mo., man that resulted in his fatal overdose.


News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the United States has filed and settled a civil fraud lawsuit against HUNTER COLLEGE (“HUNTER") and JEFFREY T. PARSONS-HIETIKKO (“PARSONS"), a former HUNTER psychology professor who served as Director...


News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Megan Emily Tate, 28, of Sylva, N.C., appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge W. Carleton Metcalf this morning and pleaded guilty to distributing a substance that contained fentanyl which resulted in serious bodily injury, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.


Four Washington State Men Sentenced for Hate Crime and False Statement Charges After Racially-Motivated Assault

News Release: Four men who assaulted a Black man because of the man’s actual and perceived race at a bar in Lynnwood, Washington, were sentenced today in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.