News published on Federal Newswire in February 2022

News from February 2022


KC Man Charged in Foiled Independence Restaurant Robbery

News Release: Employees Attacked Armed Robber, Held Him Until Police Arrived.


Mexican Citizen Living Illegally in the United States Sentenced for Possessing Firearm

News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that Rolando Olvera-Garcia, 32, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert L. Summerhays to 18 months in prison, for illegally possessing a firearm. Olvera-Garcia is a native and citizen of Mexico and had illegally entered the United States.



The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 60-year-old man has been ordered to prison following his convictions of conspiracy to distribute more than five grams of meth and possession with intent to distribute 27 grams of meth, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.


News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The National Park Service (NPS) has selected K. Lynn Berry to serve as the superintendent of Eugene O’Neill and John Muir National Historic Sites, Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial and Rosie the Riveter-World War II Home Front National Historical Park in California. She currently serves as the superintendent of Congaree National Park in South Carolina and will begin her new role in early April.


Texas company convicted for supplying potentially tainted rocket fuel to NASA

News Release: HOUSTON - Anahuac Transport Inc. has pleaded guilty to fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.


News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The National Park Service (NPS) has selected K. Lynn Berry to serve as the superintendent of Eugene O’Neill and John Muir National Historic Sites, Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial and Rosie the Riveter-World War II Home Front National Historical Park in California. She currently serves as the superintendent of Congaree National Park in South Carolina and will begin her new role in early April.


Former Project Manager of the El Reno Wastewater Treatment Plant Sentenced After Pleading Guilty to Violating The Clean Water Act

News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Yesterday, KENNETH FULTON, of Bartlesville, was sentenced after pleading guilty to knowingly falsifying, tampering with, and rendering inaccurate, a monitoring device and method required to be maintained under the Clean Water Act, announced Robert J. Troester, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.


Heart Butte man who shot up house, injuring three on Fort Belknap Indian Reservation sentenced to more than six years in prison

News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Heart Butte man who admitted to shooting up a house with a hunting rifle and wounding three of the occupants on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation was sentenced today to six years and six months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.


Slot Machine Jamming Device Seized at Milwaukee Port of Entry

Recently U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Port of Milwaukee seized an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Slot Machine Jamming Device Kit.


USDA Grants Additional WIC Flexibilities Amid Abbott Recall of Certain Powder Infant Formula

News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 23, 2022 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that it has granted additional flexibilities in response to the impact of the 2022 Abbott recall of certain powder infant formula provided through the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).


Two Juvenile Smugglers Arrested

Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents disrupted four migrant smuggling attempts resulting in 23 arrests.



News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the Biden Administration’s decision to sanction Nord Stream 2 (NS2) AG and its corporate officers:


Smuggling on the Minnewawa

In the past few months San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents have seen a sharp increase in human smuggling within the Otay Mountain Wilderness area of San Diego County. Smugglers are specifically targeting the Minnewawa portion of the Otay Mountain Truck Trail.


News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - A Raleigh man was sentenced today to 48 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for possessing child pornography. On Oct. 14, 2021, Bryan Cameron Haywood Hawkins pled guilty to the charges.


Four Men Charged After DEA & Phoenix Police Seize Large Quantities of Fake Pills & Methamphetamine

News Release: PHOENIX - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Phoenix Police Department Mountain View Precinct Neighborhood Enforcement Team (NET) have arrested four subjects who were involved in the distribution large quantities of fake M30 pills, fentanyl powder, methamphetamine and heroin in the greater...


KC Gun Store Owner Pleads Guilty to Selling Machinegun Components

News Release: Marketed Conversion Devices as ‘Cell Phone Holders’ on Website.


Labor Department publishes notice on Feb. 23

The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.