News from February 2022
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
The US Interior Department published a four page notice on Feb. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A Letcher County Middle School teacher, Charles Evans Hall Jr., was sentenced on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, to 370 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom, for production of child pornography and cyberstalking a student.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Feb. 24, 2022, Porsha Tims Bush, 42, formerly of Knoxville, Tennessee, was sentenced to 57 months in prison by the Honorable Katherine A. Crytzer, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
News Release: Defendant Posed as a Teenager, Engaged in Sexual Communications with a 9-Year-Old and 24 Other Self-Identifying Minors, and Threatened at least Three Minors to Coerce Them to Send Sexual Images.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Belton, Missouri, man who caused an accident while fleeing from a police helicopter, then ran from police officers through the backyards of a residential neighborhood before being apprehended, was charged in federal court today with illegally possessing firearms.
By David Beasley | Feb 24, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor has fined a Missouri company $127,539 for exposing workers at a facility in New Jersey to methylene chloride.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
News Release: Over 4.3 kilograms of suspected fentanyl seized during investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Tuesday, February 8, 2022, Tressa Nile Jones-Arnold, 30, from Montgomery, Alabama, was convicted of making a false statement to a federal agent, announced U.S. Attorney Sandra J. Stewart.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
News Release: EVANSVILLE - Davontai Jones-Robinson, 25, of Evansville, Indiana, and Trinity Taylor, 27, of Prattville, Alabama, were sentenced to federal prison late yesterday for the armed robbery of three different convenience stores. The robberies took place in under fourteen hours on August 13 and 14, 2020 in...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
News Release: BOISE - A Boise man was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison for distribution of methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
News Release: RENO, NEVADA - Water and Science and Bureau of Reclamation senior leadership are showcasing how the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will benefit family farmers, ranchers, irrigation districts and allied industries in 17 western states during the Family Farm Alliance Annual Meeting and Conference February 24-25 at the Silver Legacy Resort in Reno, Nevada.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a three page proposed rule on Feb. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 24, 2022
A Texas lumber company faces almost $400,000 in penalties after the death of an 86-year-old worker in a fall from wood pallets last summer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
News Release: Arthur Hayes and Benjamin Delo Designed BitMex as a Platform to Flout U.S. Anti-Money Laundering Rules.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
News Release: VALDOSTA, Ga. - A Florida reptile dealer caught shipping venomous snakes and turtles from his residence in Valdosta as part of “Operation Middleman," a multi-agency investigation focusing on the trafficking of reptiles from the United States to China, has been sentenced to prison for violating the Lacey Act and unlawfully possessing firearms.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Feb. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Feb. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - A series of federal workplace safety and health inspections at four Dollar General stores in Alabama and Georgia in the summer of 2021 found the nationwide discount retailer's long history of exposing employees to dangerous working conditions continues.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Feb. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA - A joint team of federal, state, and local law enforcement officers arrested 12 individuals today who have all been charged in federal court for their roles in a drug trafficking organization that operated in and around North Charleston.
