News from January 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2022
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia inmate was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for his involvement in a scheme to obtain pandemic-related unemployment benefits by using the personal identifying information of over 30 other Virginia prison inmates.
By State Newswire | Jan 31, 2022
Release: Since the military coup of Feb. 1, 2021, the people of Burma have stood firm in rejecting military rule and calling for their country’s return to the path to inclusive democracy. Tragically, in its continued violent quest to consolidate control, the regime has killed nearly 1,500 people, including women and children, and detained some 10,000 more, including civilian officials, civil society and labor activists, journalists, and foreign citizens.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Julian Silversmith, 44, of Jones Ranch, New Mexico, was sentenced in federal court on Jan. 28 to nine years in prison for one count of interference with interstate commerce by robbery and violence and one count of using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Henry Lee White, III (27, Orlando) has pleaded guilty to sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion and to possessing ammunition as a convicted a felon. White faces a minimum mandatory sentence of 15 years, and up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for March 15, 2022.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 31, 2022
Release: FOR INFORMATION AND ACTION. DA-2022-05. Jan. 28, 2022 To: State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory Officials Effective Nov. 18, 2021, the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) modified the areas under quarantine in Cameron County, ...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2022
News Release: GULF BREEZE, Fla.- Beginning Feb. 1, Gulf Islands National Seashore will begin enforcing maximum Recreational Vehicle (RV)/trailer length and height limits for all campsites in the Fort Pickens Campground in Florida and the Davis Bayou Campground in Mississippi.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 31, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - With a forecast that includes the potential for ice, heavy snow, high winds and severely cold temperatures across the central United States this week, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region 5 office in Chicago encourages everyone to take precautions now to stay safe.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - Today, a federal district judge in Fort Lauderdale sentenced 29-year-old Damara Holness to 20 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for lying on a coronavirus relief loan application and fraudulently obtaining hundreds of thousands of dollars intended to help small businesses financially survive the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition, Holness must pay $300,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The property manager of a Woonsocket, RI, condominium community was arraigned today in U.S. District Court in Providence on five counts of wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By State Newswire | Jan 31, 2022
Release: Ambassador Tracey Ann Jacobson, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Minister, will serve as Chargé d’Affaires, ad interim, at the Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ambassador Geeta Pasi plans to retire to pursue other opportunities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2022
News Release: Memphis, TN - Henry Segura, 32, of Memphis has been sentenced to 144 months in federal prison for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Joseph C. Murphy Jr., United States Attorney, announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2022
News Release: MOBILE, AL - A Bay Minette, Alabama, man was sentenced on Jan. 24, 2022, to 25 months in prison for his illegal possession of ammunition after a prior federal conviction for being an illegal drug user in possession of a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2022
FY22-NPS-IMR-ROUTE 66 CORRIDOR PRESERVATION PROGRAM grant opened on Jan. 31.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 31, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON - Officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Houston Field Office, ERO El Salvador and the Security Alliance for Fugitive Enforcement (SAFE) taskforce removed two noncitizen foreign fugitives Friday wanted in El Salvador for aggravated homicide.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2022
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - Rotiha Chan, 38, of Stockton California, was sentenced on Friday, Jan. 28, to 136 months in prison for Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of 500 grams or more of a substance containing Methamphetamine and distribution of 50 grams or more of a substance containing Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2022
Directed Announcement COPS Hiring FY21: Administrative Funding Adjustment to 15JCOPS-21-GG-03510-UHPX grant opened on Jan. 31.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Alabama pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to charges of sex trafficking crimes, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2022
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - A Bristol, Virginia man, was sentenced on Jan. 21, 2022 to nineteen years in federal prison for distributing more than 50 grams of methamphetamine and for using a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2022
News Release: CONCORD - Tara Hoisington, 34, of Manchester, pleaded guilty in federal court to two charges of possessing drugs with intent to distribute, United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By State Newswire | Jan 31, 2022
Release: More information about Cote d’Ivoire is available on the Cote d’Ivoire Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
