News from February 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRYAN VINALES, also known as “Tiano," 25, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a heroin and fentanyl trafficking ring.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Minnesota Department of Public Safety Homeland Security and Emergency Management division (DPS-HSEM) announced today that $26,931,775 million in federal funding has been made available to the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) for costs related to the state’s COVID-19 response under the federal disaster declaration of April 7, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Investigators Continue To Seek Help From The Public.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Feb. 3, 2022, Kevin Jeffrey Stiller, age 58, of Ankeny, appeared in federal court and pleaded guilty to two counts of failure to file tax returns for the calendar years 2015 and 2017. Stiller is scheduled to be sentenced on June 7, 2022, by United States District Court Senior...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Major Disaster Declaration signed on Jan. 14, 2022, for middle and west Tennessee following damage caused by a line of tornadoes last December was amended Thursday, Feb. 3, to include funding for FEMA Public Assistance (PA), which supplements state and local recovery efforts. Thirteen Tennessee counties are now eligible to receive PA grants to help communities repair and replace damaged infrastructure and buildings.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
Bureau of Land Management Montana/Dakotas Forest and Woodlands Resource Management grant opened on Feb. 3.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Three Southern California men were charged today in a federal grand jury indictment for allegedly robbing six cell phone stores in Los Angeles and Ventura counties during store hours on the same day, using hammers to smash display cases to steal iPhones and other merchandise.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man convicted of Child Abuse was sentenced on Feb. 3, 2022, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Milbank, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Feb. 2, 2022, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: LACEY, Wash. - A Disaster Recovery Center, jointly operated by FEMA and the Washington State Military Department’s Emergency Management Division, will open in Hamilton (Skagit County) Friday, Feb. 4, to help survivors of the Nov. 5-Dec. 2, 2021, severe storms, straight-line winds, flooding, landslides and mudslides.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Hudson County, New Jersey, men admitted their roles in a conspiracy to use drones to smuggle contraband, including cell phones and tobacco, into the federal correctional facility at Fort Dix, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: An Akron woman was sentenced to 54 months in prison after she pleaded guilty to stealing from and aggravated identity theft of an older individual. Gina Palmer, 40, of Akron, Ohio, was sentenced on Jan. 11, 2022, by U.S. District Judge James S. Gwin. Palmer previously pleaded guilty to three counts of mail fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft in September of 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that PAUL THOMPSON was sentenced to 110 months in prison for his participation in a 2018 non-fatal shooting and 2020 possession of a loaded firearm. THOMPSON pled guilty on March 31, 2021, before U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman, who imposed today’s sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Timothy Foley, New York Division announced that Robert Dygert, 35, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 40 grams or more of fentanyl, was sentenced to serve 174 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, delivered opening remarks at a hearing to consider the nominations of William Valdez to be Under Secretary for Management at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security;...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement in response to news that the ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was killed during a U.S. counterterrorism operation in Syria.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
Unity in Ukraine grant opened on Feb. 3.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - A Gulfport man was sentenced to 103 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Brad Byerley of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA").
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A man has been indicted on federal firearm charges for allegedly straw purchasing 27 handguns from stores in the Chicago suburbs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Defendant had three prior federal firearm convictions and was on supervised release at time of offense.
