News from February 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A former Warwick firefighter made an initial appearance in federal court in Providence on Wednesday, charged by way of a federal criminal complaint with threats to injure the person of another transmitted in interstate or foreign commerce, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Brennen Bryant, Jr., 29, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, and 10 grams or more of butyryl fentanyl, was sentenced to serve 120 months in prison by U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. Bryant was also ordered to pay restitution for the funeral expenses of the overdose victim in this case.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.- Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area recently received an Open OutDoors for Kids grant from the National Park Foundation (NPF). This grant will enable 4th graders from Title I schools in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties to virtually engage with rangers in the country’s largest urban national park.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit grant opened on Feb. 3.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Contact: Brian McCutchen, 931-232-5348 x 105.
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 State Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL Anti-Corruption and. Election Integrity Programs in the Balkans. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0008574. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number:...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have revived and improved a once-reliable technique to identify and count defects in transistors, the building blocks of modern electronic devices such as smartphones and computers. Over the past decade, transistor components have...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A man has been arrested on a federal drug charge after law enforcement seized fentanyl and a “pill press" in his suburban Chicago residence.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
Bureau of Land Management Colorado Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance grant opened on Feb. 3.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Dear Commissioner Rettig: . On Nov. 17, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced a major expansion of its collaboration with ID.me that will require, starting in the summer of 2022, taxpayers to have an ID.me account in order to access key IRS online resources. While we understand the IRS's...
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Department Strategy Supports National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Washington - Farmers and ranchers now can anonymously report potentially unfair and anticompetitive practices in the livestock and poultry sectors using an online tool the U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Justice (DOJ) launched today. The launch of the new tool, located at farmerfairness.gov...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Joleen D. Simpson, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that DAVID KAMAL, 60, of Stafford, formerly of Hebron, was arrested this morning on tax fraud, obstruction of justice and identity theft charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Carlos Argueta, also known as “Violento," “Desorden" and “Dylan," a former leader of the Freeport Locos Salvatruchas (Freeport) clique of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS-13, a transnational criminal organization, was sentenced by United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: MISSOULA - A Kalispell man who admitted to taking sexually explicit photographs of a child while boating in Flathead County was sentenced today to 18 years in prison to be followed by 15 years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
Release: The military operation authorized by President Biden and carried out by U.S. forces last night in northwest Syria has resulted in the death of Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the leader of ISIS - a significant victory in the global fight to disrupt and dismantle ISIS.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Susan Rhoads has worked as a seasonal ranger since 2007 and has given talks and programs at the Lewis and Clark National Historical Park about Clatsop and Chinook culture, the Lewis and Clark Expedition and plants and animals of the Lower Columbia River region. Susan is passionate about sharing skills she was given permission to show. She is trained in living history and cultural skills and offers a free basket weaving class at the park for youth Monday, Feb. 21.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - Robert Bell, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration Chicago Division, and U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Harris of the Central District of Illinois announced that Dustin R. Test, 39, from Peoria, Illinois, was sentenced on Jan. 6, 2022, to 15 years and 10 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by eight years of supervised release, for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
