News from January 2022

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - A South Carolina man was sentenced today to 44 months in prison for assaulting law enforcement with a dangerous weapon during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress that was in the process of ascertaining and counting the electoral votes related to the presidential election.

By State Newswire | Jan 26, 2022
INTERETHNIC RECONCILIATION AND YOUTH TEACHER SUPPORT PROGRAM grant opened on Jan. 26.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2022
OVW Fiscal Year 2022 Grants to Tribal Governments to Exercise Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction Solicitation grant opened on Jan. 26.

By Commerce Newswire | Jan 26, 2022
Award Competition for Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Centers in the States of Kentucky, Nebraska, Rhode Island, and South Dakota grant opened on Jan. 26.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2022
News Release: Was found with methamphetamine tablets, cocaine, and marijuana during a traffic stop.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2022
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Keith Joseph, of Miami, Florida, has admitted to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2022
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Muhammad Luqman Rana, age 32, of City of Vaughan, Ontario, for the federal charges of production of child pornography and extortion by threat to injure the reputation of another. The indictment was returned on Dec. 11, 2019 and unsealed yesterday upon his extradition from Canada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2022
News Release: EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - A former police officer in the Village of Alorton, Illinois, will be.
By Emily Bevard | Jan 26, 2022
The owner of a Somerset, Ky., home health care agency will spend a year and a day in prison and pay nearly $260,000 for keeping employees' payroll taxes and contributions for health care benefits.

By Commerce Newswire | Jan 26, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chair Raúl M. Grijalva released the following statement following the decision from the Biden administration to cancel two mineral leases adjacent to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney has sentenced Simone Cherelle McIllwain, 30, of Charlotte, to 235 months in prison and 20 years of supervised release for sex trafficking of a minor, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2022
News Release: CONCORD - Chad Rombow, 47, of Grafton, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, methamphetamine, United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2022
News Release: Search of vehicles turned up meth, heroin and stolen firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2022
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. -Laveneur Jackson, 41, of Lowell, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 66 months in federal prison for unlawfully possessing a firearm on two separate occasions. Jackson was found guilty by a federal jury on Sept. 28, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2022
News Release: Powell had two previous drug convictions and led police on a high-speed chase when caught with meth and a handgun.

By Homeland Newswire | Jan 26, 2022
News Release: LACEY, Wash. - FEMA, in partnership with the Washington State Military Department’s Emergency Management Division, will open a Disaster Recovery Center Wednesday, Jan. 26 in Ferndale (Whatcom County) to help survivors of the November flooding and mudslides.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - An MS-13 member was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for racketeering conspiracy and being an illegal alien in unlawful possession of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2022
News Release: Defendant Admitted Throwing Dangerous Objects at Officers.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On Jan. 24, 2022, a federal jury convicted Milton Portillo-Rodriguez, a/k/a “Little Gangster," age 26; Juan Carlos Sandoval-Rodriguez, a/k/a “Picaro," age 22; Oscar Armando Sorto Romero, a/k/a “Lobo," age 22; and Jose Joya Parada, a/k/a “Calmado," age 20, for a racketeering conspiracy...
By State Newswire | Jan 26, 2022
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