News from March 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2022
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. -A Pekin, Illinois, man, Sean E. Ward, 49, of the 2200 block of Court Street, was sentenced on March 22, 2022, to six-and-a-half years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for distribution of methamphetamine.
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2022
News Release: The following is the text of a joint statement by the Governments of the United States of America and France, Italy, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today applauded committee passage of S. 3666, legislation to mitigate risks related to El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender, and S. 816, legislation to recalibrate the State Department’s risk tolerance abroad.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2022
News Release: Over 40 kilograms of cocaine, 14 kilograms of heroin and more than $1 million in cash seized.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2022
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - John G. McGarry, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Wisconsin, and U.S. Attorney Timothy M. O’Shea of the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Saige T. Marten, 29, Boyd, Wisconsin, was sentenced on March 23 by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to eight years in federal prison for distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - On March 18, 2022, a federal jury convicted Chi Meng Yang, 36, of Montague, of bribery of a public official, conspiracy to commit bribery, and manufacturing more than 100 marijuana plants, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Wade R. Shannon announced.
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2022
Release: MR PRICE: Thanks very much and good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining today’s call. Very pleased to have with us today Acting Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Yael Lempert. She will preview the Secretary’s travel to Israel, the West Bank, Morocco, and Algeria. The acting assistant secretary will speak today on the record. This call is.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 24, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Region 3 has provided more than $3 billion to local and state agencies, school districts, nonprofits and other public entities in the District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia for costs related to saving lives and protecting people during the COVID-19 mission.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 24, 2022
There were 118 press releases published by the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency in October 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2022
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Reyes Luis Holguin, 29, of Phoenix, Arizona, agreed this week to pay $6,103 in restitution to the family of a young mother whose life was taken by fentanyl she bought from Holguin in August 2019. In December 2021, U.S. District Judge Susan M. Brnovich sentenced Holguin to 10 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Holguin previously pleaded guilty to Distribution of Fentanyl for selling the pills that led to the young woman’s death.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2022
News Release: ALBUQERQUE, N.M. - Jonathan Gonzalez, 35, of El Paso, Texas, pleaded guilty in federal court on March 18 to an indictment charging him with one count of conspiracy to take a hostage and two counts of hostage taking. Gonzales will remain in custody pending sentencing, which has not been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Canadian national was found guilty by a jury today of federal criminal charges for leading a drug-trafficking organization that intended to export hundreds of pounds of cocaine and heroin from Southern California into Canada and imported MDMA (Ecstasy) into the United States using big-rig trucks and fully encrypted telephones to achieve their aims.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Ventura County man was charged today in a superseding indictment that alleges he illegally imported into the United States more than 1,700 reptiles - including 60 reptiles found hidden in his clothes last month at the United States-Mexico border.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 24, 2022
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on March 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 24, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page rule on March 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2022
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on March 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas man made his initial appearance in federal court yesterday for allegedly robbing two banks and seven other businesses at gunpoint over a two-month period.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 24, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page notice on March 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2022
News Release: Alleged conspiracy spanned from Massachusetts to New Hampshire and Maine.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 24, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on March 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
