News from May 2022
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that George May, age 23, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution, Allenwood (FCI Allenwood), was indicted by a federal grand jury for possessing contraband in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Stoneham woman was sentenced today in connection with her involvement in a scheme to fraudulently obtain COVID-19-related unemployment assistance using stolen identities.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: United States Alleges that the Pharmacist and Pharmacy Ignored Red Flags Indicating the Prescriptions Were Not Legitimate.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Raleigh County man was sentenced today to five years and 10 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute a quantity of heroin.
By State Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: Pursuant to the authorities delegated to the Secretary of State in Executive Order (E.O.) 13553, which implements Section 105 of the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010, as amended (CISADA) (Public Law 111-195), as well as in the October 9, 2012, Delegation of Certain...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that BENITA LOUISE SMITH, 56, of Kinnear, Wyoming was sentenced for making a false statement relating to a sexual assault investigation before United States District Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal. Smith was sentenced to time-served with two years of supervised release and a $100 special assessment fee.
By State Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul sent a letter to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet highlighting the numerous human rights violations committed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ahead of her trip to China.
By US DOT Newswire | May 12, 2022
There was activity on two bills related to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on April 1.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: Jackson, TN- John Thomas Ward, 38, of Gibson County, has been sentenced to 80 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Joseph C. Murphy, Jr., United States Attorney, announced the sentence today.
By State Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ahead of this week’s U.S.-ASEAN Special Summit, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory W. Meeks (NY-05), founding co-chairs of the U.S. Congressional Caucus on ASEAN Joaquin Castro (TX-20) and Ann Wagner (MO-02), and House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific,...
By USDA Newswire | May 12, 2022
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and Mexico’s national plant protection organization (SENASICA) announce that the United States has begun exporting potatoes beyond the 26-kilometer border zone that previously marked the limit of their export.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: JUNEAU - A Juneau man was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy M. Burgess to six and a half years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: A Texas man was sentenced today to five years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conduct in connection with a scheme to buy 38,000 compromised PayPal account credentials from an illegal online marketplace, and then use those credentials to steal money from the rightful PayPal account owners. In addition to the term of imprisonment, the defendant was ordered to pay $1.4 million in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: Prior to His Indictment, Amilcar Romero, a/k/a “Soldado," was the Highest Ranking, Incarcerated Member of the “L.A. Program" of MS-13 in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Melissa Joann Hibbitts, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 8 months of incarceration for her involvement in a drug trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By State Newswire | May 12, 2022
Release: Representatives of the United States, the Arab League, Egypt, the European Union, France, Germany, Greece, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom met in Brussels on May 10, 2022, to discuss the crisis in Syria.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
BJA FY 22 Forensics Training and Technical Assistance Program grant opened on May 12.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: Eight alleged methamphetamine traffickers were arrested in Tulia, Texas on Tuesday in Operation Tulia Takedown, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham. Two additional defendants who were already in state custody have also been charged federally.
By State Newswire | May 12, 2022
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America, and the High Representative of the European Union.
By Interior Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: FREDERICKSBURG, VA - The National Park Service and volunteers with the Friends of Wilderness Battlefield (FoWB) will be opening the doors of Ellwood Manor to visitors on weekends starting Saturday, May 14, and daily starting on June 6. The house will be open Saturdays and Sundays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
