News from January 2022
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
Regional Infrastructure Accelerator Program Notice of Funding Opportunity grant opened on Jan. 6.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Columbus man was sentenced in federal court here today to 225 months in prison for armed robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Ian Wagner, 39, formerly of New Haven, Indiana, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard for abusive sexual contact of an incapacitated person. Wagner was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison and 6 years of supervised release with special conditions. Wagner was additionally ordered to pay $500 in restitution to the victim. There is no parole in the federal system.
By State Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: MILLS, Wyoming -- The Bureau of Reclamation will temporarily use the spillway at Alcova Dam to make scheduled water releases to the North Platte River. This action is necessary to accommodate scheduled maintenance activities in the power plant. The river flow below Gray Reef Dam will continue to be at about 450 cubic feet per second (cfs), as it has been all winter.
By Emily Bevard | Jan 6, 2022
The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs (OJP) has provided $87 million in grants to programs that combat human trafficking, conduct research on its origins and provide support to victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Court Judge Henry E. Autrey accepted a plea of guilty from Hector Soto on today’s date. Judge Autrey then sentenced Soto to 10 years in federal prison. Soto pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess, with the intent to distribute, actual methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: For Receiving Child Pornography and Possessing with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a Mission, South Dakota, woman convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on January 6, 2022, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUCIANO SOLIS-SANCHEZ, 36, a citizen of Mexico last residing in Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 57 months of imprisonment for immigration and controlled substances offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: The Defendant Admitted to Embezzling Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars from His Employer Following the Company Owner’s Death.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell sentenced Maurice Kamgaing, 42, formerly of Charlotte currently residing in Archdale, N.C., to 33 months in prison for fraudulently obtaining more than $1.5 million in COVID-19 relief funds, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: In 2021, more than 280 industry and government officials in the energy sector participated in the ninth iteration of DOE’s annual all-hazards exercise series, Clear Path. Every year, this energy security and resilience exercise brings stakeholders together to examine current policies and procedures and improve coordination between government and industry partners.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger announced a citizen of the Dominican Republic was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for her role in a drug trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Tyvonne Wiley, Tevin Mitchell, and Torey Starling have been sentenced for committing a series of five armed robberies at retail stores in the metro-Atlanta area in the fall of 2016. Wiley and Mitchell committed an armed robbery in Texas before traveling to Atlanta.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement on the first anniversary of the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - FEMA encourages applicants to keep in touch to track their case. Residents who believe the assistance they received for repairs is not enough are encouraged to contact FEMA to submit an appeal. Survivors may be asked to submit repair estimates, receipts or other documentation that explains...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - A Jackson man pled guilty to unlawful use of a communication facility in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Colonel Steven Maxwell, Director of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: EVANSVILLE - An Evansville man was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for the production and distribution of sexually explicit material involving minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: BISMARCK - United States Attorney Nicholas W. Chase announced that U.S. District Court Judge Daniel M. Traynor sentenced Patrick Robert McKee, a/k/a William Patrick O’Hara, Age 77 from Flint, MI, to two years in federal prison for the charges of Social Security False Statements, False Statements, Health Care Fraud, and Aggravated Identity Theft. Judge Traynor also sentenced McKee to 3 years supervised release and a $400 Special Assessment.
