News from April 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2022
News Release: SPOKANE, Wash. - The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), in partnership with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Washington, recently launched Operation Engage Spokane, which is a comprehensive community-level approach for addressing the drug epidemic - focusing on fentanyl distribution - through prevention strategies, facilitating conversations, and collaboration with local partners.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Claysville, Pennsylvania, man convicted of Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet was sentenced on April 1, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.

By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2022
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HAWAI‘I - Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park invites everyone to celebrate a joyful National Park Week April 16 to 24 with a fee-free Saturday, a park discovery event for families, Kahuku events, volunteer opportunities, plus the much-anticipated return of ranger programs and the Dr. Jaggar living history performance!.
By State Newswire | Apr 11, 2022
Release: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will deliver on-camera remarks on the release of the 2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices at 1:30 p.m. on April 12, 2022, in the Press Briefing Room at the U.S. Department of State.

By Press release submission | Apr 11, 2022
Former deputy sheriff convicted of drug trafficking

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2022
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Douglas Arvin Horning, 56, of Cadillac, was sentenced to 20 months in prison for tax evasion by the Honorable Paul L. Maloney, United States District Judge. He was also ordered to pay $977,983 in restitution and to serve three years on supervised release following incarceration.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2022
News Release: BISMARCK: Interim United States Attorney Nicholas W. Chase announced, that on April 11, 2022, Kolawole Bamidele Akande, a/k/a Patric Elis Ferguson, a/k/a David Louis Wallace, a/ka/ Ramos Joseph Hogan made an initial appearance in the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota on charges...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2022
News Release: In both cases, the firearms were originally purchased in southern states before arriving in this large northeastern city, a phenomenon known as the ‘iron pipeline’.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2022
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Six defendants are among those facing federal charges including drug trafficking and illegal possession of firearms after separate indictments by a grand jury in the Southern District of Georgia, while recent actions in U.S. District Court include guilty pleas and criminal sentences related to illegal gun possession.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2022
News Release: International Falls, MN: Beginning at 9 am CST on April 15, visitors can start reserving their seats aboard Voyageurs National Park’s Voyageur tour boat on Rainy Lake, or the new Ne-Zho-Dain tour boat on Kabetogama, at rates recently approved by the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2022
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man was sentenced today to one year and three months in federal prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for the distribution of fentanyl.

By Homeland Newswire | Apr 11, 2022
Release: BOSTON Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers stopped a man from carrying a loaded firearm onto an airplane at Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) Friday, April 8, 2022.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2022
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Last Friday, a federal judge sentenced JOHN SCOTT BROOKS, 39, of Lawton, to serve 120 months in federal prison for a Lawton bank robbery involving a fake bomb, announced United States Attorney Robert J. Troester.

By Press release submission | Apr 11, 2022
Planning Completed for New Campground at Prisoners Harbor
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2022
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK: On Saturday, April 16, join local plant experts Nathanael Pilla and Steve Sass at the Indiana Dunes Visitor Center to learn about the beauty and importance of native plants.

By Press release submission | Apr 11, 2022
Public Comment Invited on Proposed Housing Replacement Project

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Bernardino County man was arrested today on a federal grand jury indictment that alleges he sold fentanyl to a woman last year who soon afterward suffered a fatal overdose from the powerful synthetic opioid.

By Press release submission | Apr 11, 2022
While American budgets are straining under inflation that accelerated after Democrats’ reckless spending spree, Ways and Means Republican Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) warns in an op-ed that President Biden’s budget calls for even more dangerous spending that will only push prices higher.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2022
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Great Falls woman who admitted to working with others to bring approximately seven pounds of methamphetamine from Las Vegas, Nevada, back to Montana for distribution was sentenced today to 54 months in prison, to be followed by four years of supervised release, said U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.

By Press release submission | Apr 11, 2022
National Park and Dunes Tourism offer Volunteer Opportunities