News from June 2022
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2022
News Release: Lakewood, CO - Today, the BLM Colorado State Office announced that the oil and gas lease sale scheduled for June 23 is now scheduled for 9 a.m. MDT June 30, 2022.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2022
News Release: PRICE, Utah - In a signing ceremony attended by Utah state representatives, congressional staffers and Emery County elected officials, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Tracy Stone-Manning conveyed 6,300 acres of federal public land to the state of Utah that the state will use to expand Goblin...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 17, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas met with Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese to discuss the strong bilateral partnership between the United States and Italy and ways to further enhance collaboration on shared priorities. Secretary Mayorkas and Minister ...
By State Newswire | Jun 17, 2022
Colombia Judicial Strengthening grant opened on June 17.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 17, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released operational statistics showing that May broke April’s record for the highest number of border encounters on record which makes it clear that this administration’s border crisis will soon be a catastrophe...
By State Newswire | Jun 17, 2022
There are three releases scheduled to be published on June 21.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Ryan Weckerly, 48, Sycamore, Illinois, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 12 months and 1 day in federal prison for wire fraud and aiding in the preparation of a false...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2022
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Norfolk man pleaded guilty yesterday to possessing a firearm after previously being convicted in Norfolk Circuit Court in 2017 of multiple felonies: malicious wounding, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and abduction.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 17, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) released the following statement today after the House passed the Lower Food and Fuel Costs Act by a vote of 221-204...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man has been arrested on federal firearm charges for allegedly trafficking more than a dozen guns, including a “ghost gun" and a machine gun, in the city this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - A woman from St. Louis on Friday admitted fraudulently obtaining a $291,000 loan meant to help businesses survive the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on June 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2022
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Great Falls man who admitted to a firearm crime after shooting another man in the hand with a sawed-off shotgun was sentenced on June 16 to three years and four months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) today released PREA Data Collection Activities, 2022. This report fulfills the mandate established by the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA; P.L. 108-79) that requires BJS to produce a report, not later than June 30 of each year, on BJS’s activities to collect data on prison rape.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2022
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On June 16, 2022, the Honorable Charles E. Atchley, Jr., United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, sentenced Zachary Hood, 36, currently of Alpharetta, Georgia, to 18 months’ imprisonment for cyberstalking, and Hood was ordered to pay a $7,500 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2022
News Release: OROFINO, Idaho – The Department of the Interior today transferred fish production at Dworshak National Fish Hatchery to the Nez Perce Tribe, an important move underscoring the Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to empowering Indigenous communities and supporting Tribal trust responsibility.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2022
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - A Forest man pled guilty to possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of a controlled substance, announced U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2022
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Cole Thomas Salazar pleaded guilty in federal court today, admitting that he supplied a fatal dose of fentanyl that resulted in the death of a 24-year-old woman who was found inside her Vista apartment on Nov. 3, 2020.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 17, 2022
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on June 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2022
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced today that Stewart Wayne Coffman, age 59, of Idabel, Oklahoma, was found guilty by a federal jury of Second-Degree Murder in Indian Country and Assault with a Dangerous Weapon with Intent to Do Bodily Harm in Indian Country.
