News from January 2022
By State Newswire | Jan 10, 2022
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement regarding the recent conviction and sentencing of Aung San Suu Kyi...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 10, 2022
Release: SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Officers with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Santa Barbara Municipal Airport (SBA) Sunday detected a 9 mm Glock 43 pistol loaded with seven rounds of ammunition in the carry-on luggage of a traveler ticketed for travel to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. This occurred around 4:20 a.m. during the routine X-ray screening of carry-on luggage at the security checkpoint.
By Zachary Richter | Jan 10, 2022
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has recently added Nevada, Louisiana, American Samoa and Puerto Rico to its National Broadband Availability Map (NBAM), bringing its total participation to 40 U.S. states and territories.
By State Newswire | Jan 10, 2022
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 10, 2022
News Release: The Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is continually striving to ask the right questions, find solutions, and then ask even better questions. This pursuit of knowledge has far-reaching implications for our Department of Homeland Security (DHS) components and other national security and public safety stakeholders, including local first responders across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2022
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - Charles Boyett Mitchell, Jr., 35, of Princeton, was sentenced today to three years and 10 months in federal prison for distribution of cocaine and methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2022
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Darrell Pierre Hopkins (54, Dunnellon) with making a materially false statement in connection with the purchase of firearms and knowingly causing a licensed gun dealer to maintain false information in its official records. If convicted on both counts, Hopkins faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2022
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Kyle Richard Lantz, II, of Philippi, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2022
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man has pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in an armed carjacking that led to a high-speed chase in which he collided with another vehicle and killed another motorist.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that BLAKE BATISTE, age 19, from New Orleans, pled guilty on January 5, 2022, to various firearm and drug charges. His guilty plea stems from his participation in a Dec. 28, 2020, shootout on the 15th floor of the Jung Hotel on Canal Street.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Superintendent Judy Forte is delighted to announce the schedule of events for the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park in celebration of the 93rd birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., beginning Friday, Jan. 14, 2022 and ending on the National King Holiday, Monday, January...
By State Newswire | Jan 10, 2022
Release: The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) sanctions last month on four U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) commissioners, including Chair Nadine Maenza, Vice Chair Nury Turkel, and Commissioners Anurima Bhargava and James W. Carr, constitute yet another PRC affront against universal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2022
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Doriawn Eduane-Draphel Rogers, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced today to time served for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2022
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Donald Mark Tillotson, of Burlington, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 87 months of incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By Augustus Griffith Jr. | Jan 10, 2022
A federal court has recently ordered that all rights to videos and images produced by the GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys websites be granted to hundreds of victims filmed through the use of “force, fraud, and coercion,” a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) press release said.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 10, 2022
News Release: Washington - United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Trade Representative Katherine Tai today announced that the government of India has agreed to allow imports of U.S. pork and pork products into India, removing a longstanding barrier to U.S. agricultural trade. This news follows the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2022
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Aaron Patrick Stamets, of Charles Town, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 33 months of incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - According to an information and plea agreement filed today in U.S. District Court in Providence, the vice president of two Providence businesses, who also acted as the business/finance manager of a trust, will plead guilty to charges that he allegedly failed to turn over to the Internal Revenue Service more than one million dollars in federal payroll taxes, including Medicare, and Social Security taxes withheld from employees’ paychecks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2022
News Release: Detroit, MI - The U.S. Marshals Service is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the capture of a Michigan man wanted on two counts of first-degree homicide following the Jan. 5 murder of two women.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Bridgitte Keim (52, Temple Terrace) has pleaded guilty to bank fraud. Keim faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.
