News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: Defendant Posed as Young Girl to Target Victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Ventura County man pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges for illegally importing into the United States more than 1,700 wild animals - including 60 reptiles found hidden in his clothes earlier this year at the United States-Mexico border.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced its Veterans’ Employment and Training Service has signed a memorandum of understanding with nine new partners who have agreed to support the agency’s Employment Navigator and Partnership Pilot. With these additions, VETS has recruited 33 partners to support the pilot.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
There are two releases scheduled to be published on Aug. 25.
By State Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Foreign Affairs Committee on Aug. 23.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, James Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, and Joleen D. Simpson, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation. Boston Division, today announced the unsealing of a nine-count indictment that charges five men with federal offenses related to their participation in a stolen catalytic converter trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: Defendants Were Allegedly Affiliated With a Militia Group, Were Among Rioters on Lower West Terrace.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - A man from St. Louis was indicted Wednesday on charges accusing him of shooting a woman while attempting to take her car outside of a north St. Louis Walgreens earlier this month.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1 million grant to the Port Angeles Waterfront Center, Port Angeles, Washington, to support workforce development in the tourism sector. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former investment bank employee was arrested today in Hudson County, New Jersey, for cyberstalking former bank colleagues, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Bobby James Mitchell, 42, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced today to six years and one month in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and violating his supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge yesterday sentenced the last of 18 defendants charged in a large-scale drug trafficking conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr., and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Atlanta Field Office Special Agent in Charge James E. Dorsey.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
From Learning to Leading: Cultivating the Next Generation of Diverse Food and Agriculture Professionals grant opened on Aug. 24.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: The Three Defendants Together Earned Millions of Dollars from Nationwide Yoga Business But Did Not File Tax Returns - or Pay Taxes - from at least 2013 to 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man were sentenced today to six years and six months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a drug trafficking organization (DTO) that distributed large amounts of fentanyl, methamphetamine and other illegal drugs in the Huntington area.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - At a press conference earlier today, U.S. Attorney Erek L. Barron, joined by federal, state, and local partners announced that his office is devoting more federal resources than ever before to fight violent crime in Maryland. These resources have been made possible by an unprecedented level of state funding to support these efforts. Partners at today’s announcement included.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Nicholas Vassallo announced today that PHILLIP AARON DOBBINS, 44, of Cody, Wyoming was sentenced for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Dobbins appeared for a sentencing hearing before United States District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Aug. 16...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: Fargo - United States Attorney Jennifer Klemetsrud Puhl announced that Winter Skye Bigtrack, age 19 of St. Michael, ND, appeared before Chief Judge Peter D. Welte, U.S. District Court, Fargo, ND, and was sentenced to 57 months in prison after having plead guilty to three counts of Involuntary Manslaughter and one count of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury. Judge Welte also sentenced Bigtrack to 3 years of supervised release and $76,786.42 restitution.
By Trina Thomas | Aug 24, 2022
The National Park Service (NPS) recently revealed $2.1 million in grants to assist with repatriation of ancestral remains and sacred objects.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that a Shreveport Police Department (SPD) officer has been indicted by a federal grand jury. The indictment, which was returned today, charges James Cisco, 51, of Shreveport, with six counts of wire fraud.
