News from January 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - A Pound, Virginia man, who admitted to conspiring with others to defraud the government of nearly $500,000 in pandemic-related unemployment benefits, was sentenced today to 102 months in federal prison and ordered to pay restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Jessica Anne Miller, 39, of Hickory, N.C., was sentenced to 24 months in prison today on a wire fraud charge, for stealing more than $68,000 from a federally funded workforce development program, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell also ordered Miller to serve two years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A New York woman was indicted yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with trafficking over 400 grams of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A former member of the New Bedford Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (Latin Kings) was sentenced yesterday on drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A former Texas man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Bangor for failing to register as a sex offender, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Methuen man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to selling a fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl mixture to an undercover agent on five occasions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: Jackson, TN - A total of 11 individuals have been indicted for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana and fentanyl. U.S. Attorney Joseph C. Murphy Jr. announced the indictments today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - A San Bernardino, California man, who stole a car in Kentucky and was stopped for speeding the following day in Marion, Virginia, was sentenced yesterday to 51 months in federal prison for possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston woman was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: Coordinated the distribution of meth within a protected location.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Christina Covey, age 34, formerly of Drums, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by United States District Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to 48 months’ imprisonment for methamphetamine trafficking, and 15 months’ imprisonment for committing pandemic unemployment fraud, five months of which is to run consecutive to the methamphetamine trafficking sentence.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3 million grant to the Mifflin County Academy of Science and Technology, Lewistown, Pennsylvania, to establish a diesel mechanics and heavy equipment operator training facility and diversify the local economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: A Lubbock dentist was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for producing images of child sexual abuse, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham and Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: Beginning Monday, Jan. 10, park fire managers will begin the burning of 25 hand piles near North Campground. No closures will occur, and smoke should produce only minor localized impacts to air quality.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON -- FEMA has announced its 2022 traditional reinsurance placement for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), continuing its risk management practice against catastrophic flood losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Johnston man who admitted to downloading and sharing images of child pornography was sentenced today to three years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that Tara M. Brunst, 47, of Olmsted Falls, Ohio, pleaded guilty in federal court today to participating in an investment fraud scheme that stole approximately $9.3 million from clients. Brunst pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, mail fraud and three counts of wire fraud.
By State Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
DRL Non-Traditional Advocates for Transparency Response Fund grant opened on Jan. 6.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A South Carolina man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Portland for interstate stalking, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.
By Zachary Richter | Jan 6, 2022
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries is currently gathering information on a sea star native to the West Coast in order to determine if the species should be protected by the Endangered Species Act.
