By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on November 10, 2022, JORGE FREYTES, 37, of Bristol, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 70 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine from Puerto Rico to Connecticut through the U.S. Mail.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on November 10, 2022, ANGEL LUIS RODRIGUEZ, also known as “Lou Rock,” 45, last residing in Newington, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervise release, for trafficking cocaine. Judge Bryant also ordered Rodriguez to pay a $3,000 fine.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Brownswell Cedano (a.k.a. “Twin,” “T,” and “J”), 28, of Hartford, Connecticut was sentenced to 84 months of imprisonment on November 10, 2022 in United States District Court in Rutland by Chief Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
Craig Wiggin, 44, formerly of Rochester, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to one count of conspiracy to sell fentanyl, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
Leith Sukkar, 22, of Merrimack, pleaded guilty in federal court to engaging in the business of dealing firearms without a license and making false statements during the acquisition of firearms, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
A Columbia County man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to methamphetamine distribution.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
A newly unsealed federal indictment charges nearly three dozen defendants for their involvement in a drug trafficking conspiracy centered in south Georgia and reaching into the Caribbean.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
The owner of Jake’s Fireworks has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.

By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
The Bureau of Reclamation’s California Great-Basin Region announced today the selection of Edward Young as the Region’s Program and Budget Office Manager.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced an agreement that updates guidelines to provide for the effective and efficient administration of criminal investigations in Indian Country.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
The Bureau of Reclamation has begun monthly operational adjustments with reduced releases from Glen Canyon Dam under the Drought Response Operations Agreement.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
In compliance with the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today announced it will offer approximately 958,202 acres off Alaska’s southcentral coast in a lease sale scheduled for Dec. 30, 2022.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
The Bureau of Reclamation is providing $1.69 million to nine projects that offer innovative and novel water treatment technologies that may make previously unusable water available.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
The Department of the Interior today announced a historic agreement funded by the Inflation Reduction Act that will mitigate impacts from the worsening drought crisis impacting the Salton Sea in Southern California
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
The Bureau of Reclamation is asking its contractors receiving Central Valley Project water for municipal and industrial use to begin planning for potentially extremely limited water supply conditions in 2023
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is hosting four public workshops for the Melvin Price Locks and Dam water control manual revision.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
In mid-October, a local fisherman on the Yazoo Canal north of Vicksburg, Mississippi, stumbled upon a piece of history usually concealed by rippling muddy water.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
The delivery of an aquatic ecosystem restoration project at Harlan County Lake, Nebraska, was initiated upon the request of Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
The Dewey Short Visitor Center will close for the season Dec.1 and will reopen March 1, 2023.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District, and the City of Garden City, Idaho are inviting the public to attend an open house scoping meeting on December 7 regarding the Garden City Flood Risk Management General Investigation Study.