News from April 2022

By State Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
Release: At the end of a three-week trip to Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Qatar by U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking, we have seen U.S. diplomatic efforts yield tangible results that improve the lives of Yemenis and advance peace. The United States supported the UN’s efforts...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
The US Agriculture Department published a three page rule on April 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Fayette County woman pleaded guilty to the distribution of methamphetamine.

By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nev. - To help keep visitors and outdoor recreators safe during the record high temperature summer months, Lake Mead National Recreation Area is instituting seasonal closures to certain strenuous areas and park trails from May 15, 2022 - Sept. 30, 2022.According to the National Weather...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has sentenced Christian Agosto (22, Brandon) to four years and three months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Agosto had pleaded guilty on Dec. 15, 2021.

By USDA Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) for Federal fiscal year (FY) 2022 - Florida grant opened on April 15.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter to several State Attorneys Generals about the practice of outsourcing enforcement of consumer protection...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Officers with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at the Idaho Falls Regional Airport detected a 9 mm Glock 43X pistol loaded with 10 rounds of ammunition and a second magazine loaded with 10 rounds of ammunition in the carry-on luggage of a male passenger ticketed for...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Duane A. Evans announced that JOSEPH CAMPO (“CAMPO") was sentenced on April 14, 2022 to 28 months of imprisonment, and a mandatory special assessment fee of $100 after pleading guilty in federal court relating to his role in a health care fraud conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, James Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, and Enfield Police Chief Alaric Fox today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment charging BRANDON BLANKS, 36, of Springfield, Massachusetts, with unlawful possession of a firearms and ammunition by a felon, and possession with intent to distribute controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Newport News man on charges of conspiring to distribute fentanyl more than a kilogram of heroin, distributing fentanyl resulting in two overdoses, possessing firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking, and possessing those firearms as a convicted felon.

By US DOT Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a four page rule on April 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
News Release: Denver - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Leonard Cordova, age 43, has been charged by criminal complaint with two counts of being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm and ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on April 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - The Drug Enforcement Administration will host its 22nd National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 30 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This bi-annual event offers free, anonymous disposal of unneeded medications at more than 4,000 local drop-off locations nationwide.

By DOL Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
News Release: AUGUSTA, ME - A Maine roofing and siding contractor, solely owned, operated and controlled by Andrew Raymond Pollock, willfully exposed its employees to fall hazards at a Hampden residential construction site on multiple occasions during the same inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On Wednesday, Vincent Roy Tsosie, Jr., 28, of Tuba City, Arizona, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Susan M. Brnovich to concurrent life sentences. A jury previously convicted Tsosie of arson, first-degree felony murder, and second-degree murder.

By Homeland Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
Fiscal Year 2022 Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program (EFSP) ($130M) grant opened on April 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A federal indictment was unsealed today charging a former WNBA player with assaulting an intimate dating partner on the Umatilla Indian Reservation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
News Release: Gypsy Joker Outlaw Motorcycle Club Members Sentenced to Life in Prison for Kidnapping, Torturing, and Murdering Former Club Member.