News from February 2022
By Trina Thomas | Feb 7, 2022
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently announced the drowning of a 7-year-old Venezuelan girl after her attempt to cross the Rio Grande.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, TX - Over Friday, February 4th and Saturday, February 5th, the Texas State Aquarium (TSA) admitted 80 cold-stunned green sea turtles from the Padre Island National Seashore and the Texas Sealife Center. These sea turtles were found in the shallow bay systems on the Laguna Madre, suffering from hypothermia and other complications due to the low temperatures registered in the state in recent days.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that STEPHEN M. CALK was sentenced to one year and one day of imprisonment for corruptly using his position as the head of a federally-insured bank to issue millions of dollars in high-risk loans to Paul...
By Trina Thomas | Feb 7, 2022
The Federal Emergency Management Agency recently announced that flood maps for Woodruff County in Arkansas are now effective.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: OXFORD, MS - An Arkansas man was sentenced on Tuesday to the statutory maximum 10 years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: Faces 10 Years in Prison Following Two Federal Investigations.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - An investigation by U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), HSI Transnational Criminal Investigative Unit (TCIU), Guatemalan National Police (PNC), and Guatemalan Prosecutor for Illicit Migrant Trafficking led to the arrest of 10 Guatemalan nationals tied to the January 2021 murders of 19 foreign nationals in a human smuggling event in Tamaulipas, Mexico.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) announced the new Subcommittee Ranking Member for the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee.
By Trina Thomas | Feb 7, 2022
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently announced that a couple from Kentucky was convicted of harboring undocumented workers.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: Helping Children Cope with Trauma after Kentucky Tornadoes
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Scott Eli Harris, age 51, of Aubrey, Texas pleaded guilty today to threats transmitted by interstate communication, related to a threatening message sent to a Maryland medical doctor, who publicly advocated for the COVID-19 vaccine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Dustin Post, 26, of Fredonia, NY, who was convicted of production and possession of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 50 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: Roswell, N.M. - Beginning the week of Feb. 7, 2022, and possibly continuing through March, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will conduct prescribed fire operations approximately ten miles northeast of Ruidoso and six miles southeast of Capitan in Lincoln County. The 600-acre Eastwell slash pile unit is located within the Fort Stanton-Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: DALLAS - The Drug Enforcement Administration announced a new initiative, Operation Overdrive, aimed at combatting the rising rates of drug-related violent crime and overdose deaths plaguing American communities. Last fall, DEA initiated a data-driven approach using national crime statistics and CDC data...
By Trina Thomas | Feb 7, 2022
An Indiana man on Jan. 10 was sentenced in New Mexico to 18 years in prison after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: ANCHORAGE - In keeping with the Department of the Interior's goal to promote public lands stewardship, a Public Land Order was issued and published today, which extends the withdrawal for the Campbell Tract administrative site for an additional 20-year period. The site is under the administration of the Bureau of Land Management and located in Anchorage.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) gave the following statement after the White House released its plan, via the task force on union organizing, to increase union bosses’ stranglehold over American workers...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: Federal Indictment Charges PRC-Based Telecommunications Company with Conspiring with Former Motorola Solutions Employees to Steal Technology.
By Trina Thomas | Feb 7, 2022
The U.S. Department of Justice on Jan. 11 announced a Sanaloa Cartel drug trafficker and money launder was sentenced to prison after a nearly decade-long search.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: On March 17, the U.S. Census Bureau will release the standard, full suite of 2016-2020 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year data products-down to the block group level. Following pandemic-related data collection disruptions, the Census Bureau revised its methodology to reduce nonresponse bias in data...
