News from March 2022
By USDA Newswire | Mar 14, 2022
Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is deregulating a soybean variety developed by BASF Corporation using genetic engineering. The variety, designated as GMB 151, was developed to resist soybean cyst nematode, a microscopic parasitic ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2022
News Release: Middletown, VA- The next meeting of the Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Advisory Commission will be on Thursday, March 17, 2022, at 9 a.m. The meeting will be virtual and open to the public. Find the meeting link at.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that QUINCY WHITE, age 41, and a resident of Mobile, Alabama, was charged on March 11, 2022 in a one count indictment by a federal grand jury with possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2022
News Release: Seattle Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Material Support to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.
By Press release submission | Mar 14, 2022
Five men were arrested in eastern South Dakota this week as a result of an online sex sting aimed at child predators.This case was led by U.S.
By Press release submission | Mar 14, 2022
United States District Court Senior Judge James E. Gritzner sentenced Andrew Scott Scanlan, age 33, formerly of Newton, to 840 months in prison for two counts of production of child pornography and one count of Offense by a Registered Sex Offender, Thursday, announced Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Katherine Greer and United States Attorney Richard D. Westphal.
By State Newswire | Mar 14, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), Africa, Global Health, and Global Human Rights Subcommittee Lead Republican Chris Smith (R-NJ), and other bipartisan House members sent a letter to Secretary Blinken calling for increased engagement with Somaliland.
By Press release submission | Mar 14, 2022
Following a six-day trial in federal court, a jury convicted Charles Elsea, Jr, 44, a longtime inmate of the Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC), of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, marijuana, and money laundering.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2022
News Release: Join us on Saturday, March 19 at 2:00 pm for an anniversary hike to the Staple Bend Tunnel to commemorate the opening of the Allegheny Portage Railroad 188 years ago on March 18, 1834. On this 5-mile round trip hike participants will learn about the inclines and levels of the Allegheny Portage Railroad...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2022
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Glen Taormina, age 46, of Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A resident of the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho and former CEO of the Warm Springs Economic Development Corporation (WSEDC) pleaded guilty today for his role in a fraud scheme targeting the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs.
By Press release submission | Mar 14, 2022
A multi-agency investigation on federal export laws targeting the former owner of a San Diego-based company that provides tungsten fragments, sub-assemblies, and other weapon grade components for United States military contracts, was unsealed following his indictment March 4.
By Press release submission | Mar 14, 2022
A Kentucky man was sentenced to serve 600 months in prison for production and possession of child sexual exploitation material.
By Press release submission | Mar 14, 2022
A Memphis man pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to communicating a threat against a federal agency and being a felon in possession of a firearm.The announcement was made by the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2022
News Release: MYRTLE BEACH, SOUTH CAROLINA - Less than twenty months after 30 Horry County and Myrtle Beach-area drug traffickers were indicted based on a federal wiretap investigation into narcotics and violence, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina announced today that all 30 have pleaded guilty and been sentenced in federal court.
By Press release submission | Mar 14, 2022
Following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), joint law enforcement partner investigation, suspected drug trafficker Rafael Orlando Ramirez Barillas, a Guatemalan national who was extradited to the United States from Guatemala Feb. 10, to face international cocaine trafficking and maritime smuggling charges in the Southern District of California.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2022
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Great Falls woman today admitted allegations that she stole more than $600,000 from a construction company when she was employed as its bookkeeper, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
