News published on Federal Newswire in February 2022

News from February 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.


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.


Task Force Arrests 3 Homicide Suspects in 36 Hours

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.


Guatemalan Man Pleads Guilty to Entering the United States After a Prior Removal

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.


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.


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.


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.


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...


U.S. Marshal Task Force Arrests Interstate Murder Fugitive

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.


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.


USDA to Invest $1 Billion in Climate Smart Commodities, Expanding Markets, Strengthening Rural America

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.


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.


USDA to Invest $1 Billion in Climate Smart Commodities, Expanding Markets, Strengthening Rural America

News Release: Funding Opportunity Opens to Pilot New Revenue Streams for America’s Climate-Smart Farmers, Ranchers and Forest Landowners


Lackawanna County Man Found Guilty Of Drug Distribution Resulting In Death

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.


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.


Wilmington Man Sentenced to Over 8 Years for Federal Drug Distribution and Weapon Offenses

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.


EPA grant application closes on April 11

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


Neal Reiterates Need for COMPETES Act to Respond to China’s Unfair Trade Practices

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...




Texas man charged in Election Threats Task Force first criminal case

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.


News Release: Burden of IRS Backlogs Falls on American Taxpayers.