News from January 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 33-year-old Mexican man has been sentenced for importing 4.6 kilograms of fentanyl and 43 kilograms of cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - A Geneseo, Illinois, man, Tristan Blank, 24, of the 0-100 block of Tulip Court, pleaded guilty today to five counts of sexual exploitation of a minor. Sentencing for Blank has been scheduled for May 12, 2022, at the U.S. Courthouse in Davenport, Iowa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: Concord, NH - The U.S. Marshals - NH Joint Fugitive Task Force is pleased to announce the quick arrest of the first “Fugitive of the Week" of 2022. Casey Anne Holley, 43 years-of-age, was last known to have ties to the Rochester and Concord, NH areas when she became a fugitive. Holley was being sought on an arrest warrant issued by the Strafford County Superior Court for failing to appear on a narcotics charge on October 4, 2021.
By David Beasley | Jan 6, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently selected 21 states to receive technical assistance from the National Laboratories as they work towards improving the reliability of electric grids and developing new strategies to reduce carbon emissions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A federal superseding indictment was unsealed today charging a Mexican National residing in Clackamas County, Oregon for his role in the 2019 kidnapping and murder of a Washington State man and other drug trafficking crimes.
By State Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
Development Cooperation Partnership (DCP), Round 9 grant opened on Jan. 6.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - Dustin Fannon and Bryan Bouton were sentenced in United States District Court in Abingdon, Virginia, this week for falsifying a Mine Safety and Health Administration [MSHA] training form designed to reflect mandated annual safety training for miners. Bouton also was sentenced for lying to MSHA special investigators about his role in falsifying the official training document.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Great Falls man who admitted to downloading child pornography to his cellular phone was sentenced to six years in prison to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Matthew Scott Mayle, of Philippi, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Salem man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with two fraud schemes involving COVID-19 relief funds and tax returns for other individuals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Great Falls man who admitted to methamphetamine trafficking in the Great Falls area was sentenced today to eight years and eight months in prison to be followed by four years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: BILLINGS -A Billings woman who admitted to receiving packages of methamphetamine in the mail for distribution was sentenced today to five years in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: Defendant sold narcotics to undercover agent on multiple occasions.
By State Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
PDS Belgrade Alumni Small Grants grant opened on Jan. 6.
By State Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
Release: I look forward to welcoming Ambassador David Satterfield in the coming days as the U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa once Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman ends his appointment.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: National Park Service Regional Director Mike Reynolds announced the selection of Carmen Chapin as superintendent of Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico. Chapin has more than 17 years of National Park Service experience and has served as the chief of natural resources for the National Park Service Region 1 Office, which covers the Northeast, since 2015. She will assume her new role on Jan. 16, 2022.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: CEDAR CITY, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) invites the public to review and comment on a draft environmental impact statement and proposal by the Central Iron County Water Conservancy District. The conservancy district proposes to develop water rights held in western Beaver County and to...
By Press Release | Jan 6, 2022
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Jan. 3 that its Build America Bureau has refinanced a $99.6 million TIFIA loan for the City of Bellevue’s BelRed Street Network Project.
By George Willis | Jan 6, 2022
Recreate Responsibility, a product of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), offers tips to make a visit to a national park fun and safe for all.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on January 5, 2022, Jason White, age 27, an inmate at Federal Correctional Institution, Allenwood (FCI Allenwood) pleaded guilty to possessing a cellphone in prison. After accepting White’s guilty plea, Magistrate Judge William I. Arbuckle sentenced White to four months’ imprisonment to run consecutively to his current prison sentence.
