News from April 2022
By State Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
Release: In 2021, U.S. conventional weapons destruction (CWD) assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean made it more difficult for drug traffickers, criminal gangs, and terrorists to obtain weapons from poorly-secured stockpiles and bolstered the integrity of the U.S. southern border. The United States currently...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: POCATELLO - A Murtaugh man and a Pocatello man pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - In one of the largest cryptocurrency forfeiture actions ever filed by the United States, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida successfully forfeited approximately $34 million worth of cryptocurrency tied to illegal Dark Web activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On April 4, 2022, Lynn Richard Norton, 62, currently of Russellville, Tennessee, was sentenced to 240 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville.
By State Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
Release: This morning’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on mitigation makes clear what we can do to stop or slow planetary warming. The report also reveals how current global efforts to mitigate the climate crisis fall far short of what is needed. Without full implementation of current national pledges and robust, aggressive, and ambitious further action we cannot keep the 1.5 degrees Celsius goal within reach.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: Fort Scott National Historic Site is hosting its 39th Annual Civil War Encampment, April 23 and 24, 2022. Join us for cooking on the open fire, experience artillery and infantry troops preparing for battle, smell bread baking, participate in discussions about troop and refugee support, step back in times while playing period games, and try writing with quills and ink! This event is a well-loved tradition that is back and better than ever!.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on Policing grant opened on April 4.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Michelle M. Baeppler announced that a federal jury returned guilty verdicts on Friday, April 1, 2022, against Defendant Juan R. Grogan, 30, of Canton, Ohio, following a two-day trial before Judge Donald C. Nugent in Cleveland. Grogan was found guilty of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking and felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on March 31, 2022, Dennis Morgan, age 75, of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to one year of probation by Magistrate Judge William I. Arbuckle for a violation of the Toxic Substances Control Act.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: National parks have inspired artistic expression and creativity for generations. For National Park Week, we're asking you to create an original piece of art to highlight how the arts - visual, musical, literary, and more - help us connect with Palo Alto Battlefield and other national parks.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) issued the following statement, calling on the Senate to pass legislation to suspend normal trade relations with Russia and ban Russian energy imports...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration updated its advisory circular on Airport Design that provides guidance to airport sponsors and airport consultants designing and developing airports around the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Joseph Lee Shrout, of Independence, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 37 months of incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By State Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
Release: The United States is the world’s single largest financial supporter of global conventional weapons destruction (CWD) efforts, which promote international peace and security by addressing humanitarian hazards from landmines and unexploded ordnance in post-conflict communities. We also partner with nations worldwide to reduce the availability of and access to excess, poorly-secured, or otherwise at-risk small arms and light weapons and munitions.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Slayton, Minnesota, man was sentenced to 12 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and $435,517.78 in restitution for converting collateral that secured loans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By David Hutton | Apr 4, 2022
The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation is slated to receive $1.4 billion in President Joseph R. Biden's proposed Fiscal Year 2023 (FY2023) budget to improve water and hydropower reliability across the American West.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has seen travel volume increase this spring compared to last year and the agency is prepared to handle the increased volume.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: Tucson, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Tucson Field Office and Gila District Fire Management Office, in cooperation with the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance and the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management, will conduct a multiple day prescribed fire in the Sierrita Mountains...
By State Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
22.PMWRA.Afghanistan.AIM Project.NOFO grant opened on April 4.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT PORZIO, 48, of Westport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for tax evasion. Judge Underhill also ordered Porzio to pay a $25,000 fine.
