News from January 2022
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 27, 2022
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Four La Quarenta gang members pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute meth, heroin and cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2022
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Jose Armando Delgado Martinez (35, Orlando) to 14 years in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute over a kilogram of fentanyl and fentanyl-laced heroin. Delgado-Martinez had pleaded guilty on November 9, 2021. Two of Delgado-Martinez’s...
By State Newswire | Jan 27, 2022
Release: QUESTION: I’m Mike Eckel with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Kyiv. Joining us now on the line is the U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken. Mr. Secretary, thank you for being with us today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2022
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - The Bureau of Reclamation will host a webinar Friday, Jan. 28, to present the Draft Drought Response Operations Plan Framework. This will be an opportunity for Reclamation’s Upper Colorado Basin Region, staff from the Upper Colorado River Commission, and Upper Division State advisers...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2022
News Release: MISSOULA - A Butte man who admitted to trafficking large quantities of methamphetamine, including receiving 20 pounds of the drug for distribution in Montana, was sentenced today to eight years in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognizes the accomplishments of WasteWise partner organizations across the nation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2022
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Rashaad Shadee Washington, of Pleasant City, Ohio, was sentenced today to 84 months of incarceration for drug charges, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized Live Nation’s Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre in Maryland Heights, Missouri, with a 2020 EPA Region 7 WasteWise Award.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2022
News Release: ROCKFORD, Ill. - Robert J. Bell, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration-Chicago Division, and U.S. Attorney John R. Lausch, Jr., of the Northern District of Illinois announced the indictment of an Iowa man by a federal grand jury in Rockford on federal drug and firearm charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC--Bicameral Democratic Health Committee Chairs wrote to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure today to express their strong support for the Biden Administration’s policies included...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA-Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement applauding the latest report of gross domestic product from Bureau of Economic Analysis...
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with the Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud.
By State Newswire | Jan 27, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) together with Representatives Albio Sires (D-NJ), Chair of the Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, Migration and International Economic Policy Subcommittee, Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Chair of the International Development,...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C., - Jarod Forget, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Washington Division, announced the issuance of an Immediate Suspension Order (ISO) at Northgate Pharmacy, located at 3973 Saint Charles Parkway, Waldorf, Maryland, today.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
More information about Zimbabwe is available on the Zimbabwe page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
The United States continues to increase its assistance to the Kingdom of Tonga in the wake of the recent Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruptions, ashfall, and tsunami.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Ambassador David Satterfield will travel to Kenya, Egypt, the UAE, Turkey, and Israel from January 24 to February 4, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that Matthew Carter, age 31, of Yankton, South Dakota, was found guilty of Possession of Child Pornography as a result of a federal jury trial in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
More information about Gabon is available on the Gabon Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Marcie Leoso, 40, Washburn, Wisconsin was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 5 years in federal prison for her role in a heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine conspiracy. Leoso pleaded guilty on Sept. 28, 2021 to conspiring to distribute heroin and fentanyl.
