News from February 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Methuen woman was arrested yesterday in connection with stealing Social Security benefits intended for her child.
By Press release submission | Feb 11, 2022
Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector Border Patrol agents disrupted four migrant smuggling attempts that resulted in 73 arrests. A migrant smuggler collided with a school bus, occupied by only the bus driver, while attempting to evade arrest.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 11, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An investigation by U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) led to the arrest and charge of Joseph Raymond Berger, 67, and Joseph Paul Berger, 32, of Bethlehem, PA, this week with multiple firearms offenses including possessing machine guns, possessing non-registered firearms, and possessing non-registered silencers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2022
News Release: Dayton, OH - The U.S. Marshal’s Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST) with assistance of the Xenia Police Division, Fairborn Police Department, Greene County Agencies for Combined Enforcement (ACE) Drug Task Force, Greene County Prosecutor’s Office, Middletown Division of Police, and Middletown Special Operations Unit have arrested Devon Cox.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a four page notice on Feb. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Press release submission | Feb 11, 2022
Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV) Border Patrol are seeing a trend of Transnational Criminal Organization’s (TCO) using social media to recruit minors for their smuggling operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2022
News Release: KNOXVILLE-Tenn.- On Feb. 10, 2022, Eugene Charles McGrath, 55, of Knoxville, was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 300 months for producing child pornography by the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 11, 2022
“STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS“ was published in the Senate section on page S547 on Feb. 7
By John Suayan | Feb 11, 2022
A suburban Detroit police detective late last month entered a guilty plea to conspiring to distribute fentanyl-laced heroin, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Michigan announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Adam C. McFadden, 50, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of wire fraud and filing a false tax return, was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. McFadden was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $265,528.00 to Quad A For Kids, the Internal Revenue Service and Rochester Housing Charities.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2022
News Release: Jackson, TN - U.S. Marshal Tyreece Miller announces the arrest of Jeremy Rico Etheridge, 39, on a First Degree Murder warrant out of Indianapolis, Indiana, as well as a second fugitive wanted by authorities in Wisconsin. Both were arrested in Union City, Tenn. by the U.S. Marshals Service.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 11, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a three page notice on Feb. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2022
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Suffolk man was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for a wire fraud scheme in which he defrauded real estate investors out of approximately $378,000.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 11, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) today marked one year since becoming Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW). Chairman Carper and Ranking Member Capito reflected on a year of accomplishments at the helm of EPW.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 11, 2022
FY22 Carbon Utilization Technology: Improving Efficient Systems for Algae grant opened on Feb. 11.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2022
News Release: New exhibits for the Capitol Reef Visitor Center will soon be installed. To facilitate the installation, the visitor center will be closed from February 21 - March 2, 2022.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 11, 2022
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued two notices of intent to provide $2.91 billion to boost production of the advanced batteries that are critical to rapidly growing clean energy industries of the future, including electric vehicles and energy storage, as directed by the Bipartisan Infrastructure...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - On Feb. 10, 2022, Peter Oka, 30, of Coolidge, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, appeared for his preliminary and detention hearing for charges of use of a firearm during a crime of violence, assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm, and assault resulting in serious bodily harm. The court ordered Oka detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2022
News Release: Medical Director Convicted in $110 Million Addiction Treatment Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2022
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Minneapolis man has been sentenced to 108 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition as a felon. Acting U.S. Attorney Charles J. Kovats made the announcement after U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright sentenced the defendant.
