News from February 2022
By State Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the Government of the United States of America and the European Union on the occasion of the ninth meeting of the U.S.-EU Energy Council.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Curtis Davis, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 60 months of incarceration for drug distribution, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: Washington - Lancaster Farms LLC, operating out of Wilson, N.C., posted a $50,000 surety bond with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to employ John Fowler, as required by the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Roanoke Rapids woman was sentenced today to 30 months in prison, a one-year term of supervised release, and $818,650 in restitution, for aiding and assisting the preparation and presentation of a false federal income tax return (Form 1040). On Nov. 2, 2021, Makita Boone pled guilty to the charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - 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.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Dana Stevenson, 30, of Charleston, pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of ammunition in connection with a shooting that occurred in Charleston. In connection with a separate incident, Stevenson also pleaded guilty to possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl in South Charleston.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating more than $1.5 million to Oregon as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and to safeguard the U.S. nursery production system.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating more than $1.3 million to Hawaii as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and to safeguard the U.S. nursery production system.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating more than $1.2 million to Pennsylvania from Section 7721 of the Plant Protection Act as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and to safeguard the U.S. nursery production system.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating almost $2 million to Massachusetts as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and to safeguard the U.S. nursery production system.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A former resident of Indiana, PA pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program is seeking information on technologies that can detect trapped survivors in collapsed buildings and voids. The DHS SBIR Program, administered by the DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), issued...
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating $17.6 million to California as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and to protect the U.S. nursery system.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating more than $1.3 million to Idaho as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and to safeguard the U.S. nursery production system.
By State Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: Jennifer “J.R." Littlejohn is the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. She is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, most recently serving as the Deputy Director of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff. Prior to that, she was the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Skopje, North Macedonia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced MS-13 gang member Edin Velasco Garcia, age 21, of Frederick, Maryland, to 41 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for assault with a deadly weapon, in connection with his assault of two victims whom he believed were rival gang members. The sentence was imposed on Feb. 2, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Court Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk accepted a plea of guilty from Jarvis L. Fields on today’s date for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. A grand jury in the Eastern District of Missouri previously indicted Fields in December 2020. Judge Pitlyk set sentencing for May 3, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man caught last year with cocaine base, also known as crack cocaine, pleaded guilty today.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) today announced the expansion of their current partnership with The Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE). By embedding MPA and ACE personnel to the team at the IPR Center in Washington D.C. and other resources to the expanded framework, the partnering organizations are able to further expand their collective content protection efforts.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke yesterday with Republic of Korea (ROK) Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong.
