News from February 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Marshal Tyreece Miller announces a reward for information that leads to the arrest of Gregory Morton for First Degree Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: Concord, NH - The U.S. Marshals - NH Joint Fugitive Task Force is very pleased to announce that “Fugitive of the Week," Jason Lee Brewer was arrested this afternoon in Rochester, NH.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: Atlanta, GA - The U.S. Marshals Service, Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, in conjunction with the Atlanta Police Department, State of Georgia SWAT Team, and the North Metro SWAT Team, arrested three individuals wanted for homicide in two days.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Guatemalan man pleaded guilty in federal court today to entering the United States after a prior removal, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Carlos Joel Nieves Ortega, age 37, of York, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Feb. 3, 2022, to 10 years’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Jennifer P. Wilson for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - A Greenville, South Carolina man was sentenced today to 40 years in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine, international money laundering, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and conspiring to obstruct justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - A federal grand jury indicted James Furlow on today’s date for numerous counts related to a crime spree during the last week of December 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. -Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Ivan Reyes Arzate, a former Mexican Federal Police Officer and Commander of the Mexican Federal Police’s Sensitive Investigative Unit, was sentenced by United States District Judge Brian M. Cogan to 10 years’ imprisonment for participating in...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: Memphis, TN - The U.S. Marshals Two Rivers Violent Fugitive Task Force arrested Michael Wayne Tackett for two counts Attempted Murder of a Law Enforcement Officer out of Mississippi and one count of Second Degree Murder out of Shelby County.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: HAWAII NATIONAL PARK, Hawaiʻi - Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) seek community input during public scoping on a proposed action and plan to move the Disaster Recovery Project forward following the 2018 volcanic eruption and summit collapse on Kīlauea volcano.

By USDA Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Feb. 7, 2022 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today at Lincoln University that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is delivering on its promise to expand markets by investing $1 billion in partnerships to support America’s climate-smart farmers, ranchers and forest landowners.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Kayla Lynn Jenkins, of Philippi, West Virginia, has admitted to drug and firearms charges, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.

By USDA Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: Funding Opportunity Opens to Pilot New Revenue Streams for America’s Climate-Smart Farmers, Ranchers and Forest Landowners

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania has announced that on February 8, 2022, Robert Jackson, age 44, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was found guilty of unlawfully distributing a controlled substance resulting in death after a six-day trial before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 30-year-old Corpus Christi man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute meth and carrying a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Robert Rodriguez, age 58, was sentenced today to 105 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and possession of a firearm. U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika pronounced the sentence.

By EPA Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
FY 2022 - FY2023 POLLUTION PREVENTION GRANT PROGRAM FUNDED BY THE BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE LAW grant opened on Feb. 9.

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement emphasizing the need for the America COMPETES Act of 2022 in light of new trade data that show China failed to comply with its “Phase 1" commitments...

By David Hutton | Feb 9, 2022
A Texas man is facing federal charges after being arrested for allegedly making election-related threats against government officials in a Craigslist post on Jan. 5, 2021.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: Burden of IRS Backlogs Falls on American Taxpayers.