News from February 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on Feb. 1, 2022, Wayne Bailey, 68, of Swanton and Louis Bates, 49, of St. Albans were charged by criminal complaint with abandoning a junk boat and setting it adrift in the Missisquoi River on the Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge. Specifically, they are charged with abandoning and discarding personal property and dumping garbage, debris, and refuse on a National Wildlife Refuge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Randell Adsit, age 51, of Martinsburg, New York, was sentenced today to 180 months in prison for distributing and possessing child pornography. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Janeen DiGuiseppi, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: DENTON, Texas - Preliminary flood risk information and updated Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) are available for review in Wilson County, Texas. Residents and business owners are encouraged to review the latest information to learn about local flood risks and potential future flood insurance requirements.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
Aquatic Invasive Species Grants to Great Lakes Tribes - Fiscal Year 2022 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant opened on Feb. 2.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit grant opened on Feb. 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Bangor woman was sentenced today in federal court for maintaining a drug-involved premises and distributing fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY-Yesterday, GUADALUPE ELOISA ORTEGA-GREEN, 23, and TERRELL MAURICE BRUNSTON, 19, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Oklahoma City with Possession with Intent to Distribute over 400 grams of Fentanyl, announced U.S. Attorney Robert Troester of the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement in support of President Biden’s efforts to prevent the Postal Service from replacing their delivery fleet with gasoline-powered delivery trucks instead of electric vehicles...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: Department Strategy Supports National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) released a request for information (RFI) seeking commercially available mobile radiation detection systems to aid emergency responders on a broad spectrum of radiation detection missions. The technologies...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) applauded the advancement of their bipartisan legislation to name the Avondale Cincinnati Post Office for two Ohio World War II aviators, John H. Leahr and Herbert M. Heilbrun out of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Khyri Oliver, age 32, of Utica, New York, pled guilty today to possession of a firearm by a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Jeremie Adam Elkins, 44, of Newark, Ohio, was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly causing approximately $1 million in fraud while employed as a network engineer at Verizon, Inc.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom Challenge Grants Program grant opened on Feb. 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: ALBUQERQUE, N.M. - Cisco Joseph Bob, III, 22, of Mescalero, New Mexico, appeared in federal court on Jan. 20 for a preliminary and detention hearing on a charge of assault of a federal officer. Bob will remain in custody pending trial, which has not been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: A man who fatally shot a close friend during an altercation was sentenced Wednesday in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A former pastor from Georgia who was conducting missionary work in Uganda when he sexually assaulted a girl under the care of his church has pleaded guilty to his crime in federal court today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 41-year-old Houston man has been ordered to prison after conspiring to transport cocaine, heroin and fentanyl into the country, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: A 38-year-old man who robbed a cell phone store at gunpoint has been sentenced to more than 25 years in federal prison for robbery, carjacking, and multiple gun crimes, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: DEVILS TOWER, WY - Devils Tower National Monument saw the highest number of recreation visits in the monument’s history in 2021. For the first time, visitation surpassed 500,000 with approximately 550,712 recreation visits in 2021, up 30% from 2020. Data for 2021 is still preliminary and final numbers...
