News from April 2022
By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
El Paso Sector U.S. Border Patrol Agents disrupted two smuggling attempts rescuing 34 migrants this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Gregory Ralph Whitman, 58, of Panama City, Florida, was sentenced to thirty-five years in federal prison after pleading guilty on December 9, 2021, to attempted enticement of a minor, receipt of child pornography, and for committing a felony while a registered sex offender. The sentence was announced by Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers intercepted a mixed load of methamphetamine, fentanyl and heroin with an estimated street value of more than $402,000 in one enforcement action.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A lawyer who formerly had a legal practice in Ontario was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison for receiving sexually explicit images and videos from a minor over Snapchat.
By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
If this traveler could turn back time, if he could find a way, he might take back his newly purchased wrist watches to the Pakistan vendor.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared during the week of March 28 through April 1 before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, TX - The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking input regarding a proposed housing replacement project at Padre Island National Seashore (the park). This project will demolish and remove one obsolete trailer and one obsolete modular home in an area south of the park’s Visitor Center. The project will replace the obsolete units with new housing units in the same area.
By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is pleased to announce that the NEXUS and U.S./Canada FAST enrollment centers in the United States will reopen April 19, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - A Bluefield man pleaded guilty today to possessing child pornography.
By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
An investigation led by the U.S.
By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
A Diamond, Missouri, man has been convicted at trial for the sexual exploitation of a child following an investigation by U.S.
By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
A south Texas man was sentenced 240 months after holding two men against their will and demanding ransom following an investigation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) with assistance from the Donna, Texas, Police Department.
By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
A local area man was arrest Thursday on six counts of sexual exploitation of minor after receiving information that illicit images were transferred online via a Sierra Vista area internet protocol (IP) address following an investigation led by the Sierra Vista Police Department assisted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Douglas office.
By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
A South Texas man was sentenced to 192 months in federal prison for exploiting a 4-year-old following an investigation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Rio Grande Valley Child Exploitation Task Force.
By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
On Tuesday, a federal investigation into the death of a 20-year-old man resulted in a 190-month prison sentence for a Chula Vista resident.U.S.
By Andy Nghiem | Apr 4, 2022
Trail users have one less access point to the Minnewawa Truck Trail and Otay Mountain Wilderness after the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced the closure of the north access point.
By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) today announced the forthcoming publication of a joint temporary final rule to make available an additional 35,000 H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas for the second half of fiscal year (FY) 2022.
By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is announcing a trio of efforts to increase efficiency and reduce burdens to the overall legal immigration system.
