News from February 2022

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Black Hawk, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Feb. 11, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr. ordered James Arden Alexander, 33, of Indian Trail, N.C., to serve 162 months in prison and two years of supervised release for robbing a Family Dollar store, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Alexander’s co-defendant, Gerran McClure, 33, of Charlotte, was previously sentenced to four years in prison and two years of supervised release.
By State Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DONMONICK MARTIN, age 30, of Chalmette, Louisiana, pled guilty on February 9, 2022 to Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371.

By US DOT Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Feb. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: THE CULTURE AT NIH. “The question before this Committee this morning, is whether to create a new agency, ARPA-H, partly driven by the growing concerns as to the culture at NIH. “Given Dr. Lander’s sudden resignation last night, it only raises more questions in my mind as to what is really going on at...

By US DOT Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a five page notice on Feb. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOL Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC ‒ U.S. healthcare workers experienced a staggering 249 percent increase in injury and illness rates in 2020, based on employer-reported data, as they encountered serious safety and health hazards while serving those in need and labored countless hours battling the pandemic. In fact, healthcare and social assistance workers combined for more injuries and illnesses than any other industry in the nation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - Howard Jones, 50, of Craven County was sentenced today to 188 months in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and distribution of 100 grams or more of heroin, distribution of a quantity of heroin, possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin and possession of a firearm by a felon.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on Feb. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHRISTOPHER J. BRERETON, 35, of Fargo, North Dakota, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 37 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for traveling to Connecticut to attempt to engage in sex with a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A federal grand jury in Portland returned an indictment today charging the former president and event director of the Portland Marathon for defrauding the charitable organization that had backed the event since the early 1980s.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: A west Texas gas plant has been ordered to pay a $3 million criminal fine, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Channel Islands National Park Superintendent Ethan McKinley announced today the beginning of construction on Feb. 22, 2022, to replace the existing deteriorating dock at Anacapa Island, which improve visitor access and safety.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Ketty Larco-Ward, Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Boston Division, today announced that ABRAHAM ROSADO, 33, of New London, pleaded guilty yesterday in Bridgeport federal court to a narcotics trafficking offense stemming from his role in a conspiracy in which cocaine was mailed through the U.S. Postal Service from Puerto Rico to southeastern Connecticut.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Two Additional Co-Defendants Plead Guilty in NIBIN Investigation.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Feb. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Ocala, Florida -United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Marrin Maurice Baker (49, Williston) has pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. Baker faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set. Baker had been indicted on November 9, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Nina Maria Harrison, 36, of Sacaton, Arizona, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Susan M. Brnovich to 15 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Harrison previously pleaded guilty to Voluntary Manslaughter.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: The 2020 presidential election featured record turnout and record use of nontraditional voting methods, according to the “Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2020 " report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. The report builds on detailed tables released last year. It’s based on...