News from August 2022
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
EPA Accepting Clean School Bus Rebate Applications until August 19, 2022
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
CBP Officers Encounter 95 Exotic Reptiles, Insects at Hidalgo International Bridge
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant Used Ruse for Personal Gain, Including to Defraud Apartment Complexes of Rent.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Nicholas Vassallo announced today that DANIEL PATRICK GUTIERREZ, age 36, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was sentenced for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, distribution of methamphetamine, using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The owner of a Peculiar, Mo., business pleaded guilty in federal court today to tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Distributed Hundreds of Thousands of Drugs Without Proper Prescription.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Watrous, NM: Join Fort Union National Monument for a guided walking tour of the historic fort by full moonlight on Saturday, August 13. The haunting remnants of the once great fort are especially evocative in the subdued atmosphere of moonlight. A park ranger will be sharing with the audience the history of the fort and its people as well as astronomical observations about the night sky overhead.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: HONOLULU - United States District Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi yesterday sentenced Aaron Anthony Hood, 45, of Honolulu, Hawaii, to ten years of imprisonment and 25 years of supervised release for one count of possession of child pornography. Hood previously pleaded guilty to the child pornography offense on Sept. 17, 2019.
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
Global Entry Begins Touchless, Receipt-less Processing at ORD
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of holding counterfeit drugs for sale and possession of equipment for manufacturing counterfeit substances, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria, Illinois man, Samuel M. Powell II, 28, of the 1000 block of West Butler Street, has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for theft of government money.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former Long Beach Police officer was sentenced today to 70 months in federal prison for distributing sexually explicit images of children, including when he was on duty.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Holyoke man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Springfield for illegal firearm possession.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JARRETT SCURTO, age 35, a resident of Houma, Louisiana, pled guilty on Aug. 3, 2022, before U.S. District Judge Sarah S. Vance to possession with intent to distribute fifty grams or more of methamphetamine in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A), announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the arrest and filing of a criminal complaint charging Donald Robert Smith (27, Tampa) with two Hobbs Act robberies and brandishing a firearm during the commission of those robberies. If convicted, Smith faces up to 20 years for each robbery. The firearm charges will carry a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 7 years, and up to, life in prison consecutive to any other term of imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A 72-year-old El Paso man was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison for attempted bank robbery, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that LARRY WILLIAMS (“WILLIAMS"), age 49, of New Orleans, was sentenced today for Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, arising out of a staged automobile accident with a tractor-trailer occurring in New Orleans. Thus far, the total number of defendants convicted in “Operation Sideswipe" is thirty-eight (38).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant Used Stun Gun Against Officers, Accosted Photographer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Nicholas Vassallo announced today that CHRISTOPHER RAY EDWARDS, age 37, of Rock Hill, South Carolina, was charged with being a felon in possession of ammunition and possessing a firearm not registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. Edwards appeared...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging Darrius Jaques Garrett (33, Orlando) with two counts of possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. If convicted, Garrett faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison on each count. The indictment also notifies Garrett that the United States intends to forfeit all firearms and ammunition recovered as a result of the offense conduct.
