News from August 2022
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: MOAB, Utah - Due to a persistent and active monsoon pattern accompanied by rainfall and higher humidity over the region, the fire danger has moderated across southeastern Utah. Today, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), National Forest Service (USDA FS), National Park Service (NPS) and State of Utah announced that fire restrictions will be lifted in southeastern Utah at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 12, 2022.
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
USITC Makes Determination In Five-Year (Sunset) Review Concerning Lemon Juice From Argentina
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Greenville, Miss. - A Southaven man was sentenced today to 17.5 years in prison for distribution of child sexual abuse materials.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Michael Almonte Diaz, 28, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Lowinsky Cuevas Acosta, 26, of Lynn, Massachusetts, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine. The charge carries a minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a $5,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Raykheem Andrew Guthery, 30, of Vallejo, charging him with possession of ammunition as a felon and as the subject of a domestic violence protective order, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - An indictment charging 12 defendants in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy based in Calhoun County was unsealed today, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Mickey French. Eight of the defendants were arrested today, and the four remaining defendants were already in custody on state offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: EVANSVILLE - A federal grand jury in Evansville returned an indictment today charging Casey White, 38, of Florence, Alabama, with being a felon in possession of a firearm and a fugitive in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that TIHAJA ORTIZ-TUCKER, 18, of New Haven, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with carjacking.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior today announced that it has completed the final step to begin processing applications received from eligible Alaska Native Vietnam-era veterans on approximately 27 million acres of public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Via the Federal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Melanie K. Pierson (619) 546-7976.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant Orchestrated a Rigged Vote Relating to $150 Million in Bonds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - An inmate at the Crawford County Correctional Facility in Saegertown, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on a charge of failure to register under SORNA, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber on Thursday sentenced a St. Louis man who robbed two cell phone stores in 2019 to 16 years and eight months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - An Arizona man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jennifer A. Dorsey to five years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his role in a fraud scheme to rent cars from various rental companies. Those rental cars were later sold to unsuspecting victims who believed that Kang had sold them a car.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA -Scott Ashley Cascone, 48, of Charleston, was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - On July 12, 2022, United States District Court Judge Greg Guidry sentenced WAYNE TRICHE, 72, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to forty-one (41) months imprisonment, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans. Triche pleaded guilty to wire fraud and tax fraud in violation of Title 18, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher sentenced Michael Marotta, age 26, of Sewell, New Jersey to three years of probation with a 30-day term of community confinement, preceded by an intensive in-patient drug treatment program for making threatening interstate communications. Marotta admitted that he used an anonymizing text message service to threaten physical harm to a Black woman and her family in Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced it will close a civil rights review based on actions the South Dakota Unified Judicial System (UJS) has taken to improve access to court programs and activities for people with limited English proficiency (LEP).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Biotronik Inc., a medical device manufacturer based in Oregon, has agreed to pay $12.95 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by causing the submission of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid by paying kickbacks to physicians to induce their use of Biotronik’s implantable cardiac devices, such as pacemakers and defibrillators.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA -- A resident of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 72 months’ imprisonment and 5 years’ supervised release on his convictions for violating federal narcotics and firearm laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
