News from January 2022
By DOL Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: OSHA issued one willful violation to the Buffalo, New York-based food manufacturer and proposed $145,027 in penalties. The agency placed Rich Products in OSHA’s Severe Violator Program for a willful violation that led to an employee fatality. The company has an extensive history of OSHA violations nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Anthony Quamaine Brown, a/k/a, “BX," age 39, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Jan. 21, 2022, to 180 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion following his conviction for conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky.- A Mt. Sterling, Ky., man, Larry A. Crump, 37, was sentenced to 234 months in prison on Friday, by Chief U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves, after previously pleading guilty to Hobbs Act Robbery, bank robbery, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Jude Uzochukwu Ifeanyi, 37, of Nigeria, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for wire fraud. Senior United States District Judge Joseph F. Bataillon sentenced Ifeanyi to 41 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: ABBOTSFORD, WI ‒ At the Abbotsford location of a popular Midwest tire sales-and-service provider, a worker mounting a new tire sustained fatal injuries after the tire came loose and struck him on July 28, 2021. A few weeks later, another worker from the same company suffered a similar fate at a Savage, Minnesota, location on Aug. 17, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - Broward County resident Palacio Valdes Farley pled guilty in federal court in Miami to conspiring to traffic marijuana, eutylone, and MDMA, as well as conspiring to launder proceeds of the illegal drug activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: DETROIT - A local podiatrist entered a guilty plea today to a two count Information charging unlawfully distribution of controlled substances for his involvement in a sex-for-drugs diversion scheme, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: The NPS Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program regularly hosts webinars on a variety of IPM and invasive species related topics which are open to anyone. On February 1st, NPS IPM Program will be hosting a webinar on Blood-Feeding Flies and Mosquitoes. This webinar will be presented by Dr. Robert Kimsey...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chairs of the House and Senate Homeland Security Committees, House and Senate Judiciary Committees, and House Oversight Committee sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting it conduct a review of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) use ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A two-day undercover local, state and federal law enforcement operation resulted in the arrest of nine individuals, the seizure of six weapons and nine vehicles, as well as thousands of dollars in cash and illicit drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: Defendant Accused of Joining Attacks Against Two Officers; Four Others Charged in Case.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Joel Lehi Organista, 29, of Salt Lake City, pleaded guilty to two felony counts related to the production and transportation of child pornography in federal court last Monday.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - Broward County resident Palacio Valdes Farley pled guilty in federal court in Miami to conspiring to traffic marijuana, eutylone, and MDMA, as well as conspiring to launder proceeds of the illegal drug activity.
By State Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
Bureau of Land Management California Threatened and Endangered Species grant opened on Jan. 24.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA -- A former Pittsburgh resident has been sentenced in federal court to time served and two years of supervised release, with the first eighteen months on home detention on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Lakeem Hunter-Knight, age 21, of Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion for brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By State Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
Juvenile Correctional Institution Management Training Course Development grant opened on Jan. 24.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton today sentenced Davel Theodore Spady (35, Palm Bay) to six years in federal prison for distributing fentanyl and possessing with the intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl. A federal jury had found Spady guilty on Oct. 21, 2021.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: CLANTON, Ala. - In the month since the President approved a disaster declaration for Jefferson and Shelby counties, more than $1.4 million in federal grants, $1.7 million in low-interest loans, and $8.7 million in payments from the National Flood Insurance Program have been approved for survivors of...
