News from February 2022
By DOL Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) Chair of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and Assistant Speaker of the U.S. House Katherine Clark (D-MA-5), introduced the Higher Education Access and Success for Homeless and Foster Youth Act to remove barriers...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
Release: FOR INFORMATION AND ACTION. DA-2022-03. Feb. 2, 2022To: State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory Officials Effective immediately, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) are establishing five new quarantine areas for citrus canker in Brazoria, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Munhall, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that Steven Marcus Kelley, 48, of West Monroe, Louisiana, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Terry A. Doughty to 120 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, in connection with a murder-for-hire plot. The sentence handed down today was the maximum possible penalty under the law that Kelley could have received.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - On February 8, 2022, federal charges were filed against Chuny Ann Reed, age 46. Reed is accused of distribution of crack cocaine (cocaine base) and fentanyl. These charges were a result of an investigation that began after a series of fatal overdoses that occurred at 4451 Forest Park Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri on February 5, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE - A former inmate at an Oklahoma State Prison was sentenced today to 324 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release on one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Phencyclidine (PCP) and one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine. The Honorable Judge Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An active-duty Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton was arrested Tuesday on charges that he cyberstalked multiple young women with ties to his former hometown of Torrance in a “sextortion" campaign.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: Jackson, Miss.- A Dallas, Texas man was sentenced to 420 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge David Denton of Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: Experts Urge Skepticism of January Jobs Report: “A muted gain or even a decline".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: California Man Arrested for Cyberstalking Young Women in Sextortion Campaign.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: One of the leaders of a violent Savannah-area drug trafficking network has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in federal prison.
By State Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
DRL Youth Empowered to Protect Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in Sri Lanka grant opened on Feb. 9.
By Trina Thomas | Feb 9, 2022
The Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program announced Jan. 24 the appointment of a new Native American Tribal liaison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: Inwood, WV - Members of the U.S. Marshals Mountain State Fugitive Task Force arrested Joel Keck, 44, of Charles Town, WV on outstanding felony warrants issued out of Jefferson County. The warrants charge Keck with numerous sex offenses involving minors including 1st Degree Sexual Assault (victim under 12 years of age), 1st Degree Sexual Abuse (victim under 12 years of age), and Distribution or Exhibition of Sexually Explicit Material Involving Minors.
By State Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL Promoting Justice Sector Reform in Moldova. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0008590. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 19.345. Type of...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON, TX - Today, Drug Enforcement Administration Houston Division diversion investigators served an Immediate Suspension Order (ISO) that immediately suspended the DEA registration held by Wholesale Rx also known as “Tyler Pharmaceuticals" located in Cordova, TN. Wholesale Rx is suspected of diverting controlled substances onto the black market resulting in imminent danger to public health and safety.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: For Distribution Of Child Pornography. FORT WAYNE - Benjamin Durnell, 39 years old, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Holly A. Brady, after pleading guilty to distribution of material involving the sexual exploitation of minors, announced United States Attorney...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) today delivered the following remarks to the House Rules Committee in support of.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Kenneth Michael Burton, 48, of Alachua, Florida, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison after pleading guilty on Aug. 17, 2021, to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney, for the Northern District of Florida announced the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Minneapolis man has been sentenced to 150 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for possessing images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of minors. Acting U.S. Attorney Charles J. Kovats made the announcement after U.S. District Judge Eric C. Tostrud sentenced the defendant.
