News from May 2022

By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant Was Registered Sex Offender. WASHINGTON -An Ohio man, a previously convicted sex offender, was sentenced today to a 30-year prison term on a federal charge of distribution of child pornography. The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Wayne A. Jacobs, Special Agent...

By State Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul delivered the following opening statement at a full committee hearing on forest conservation and climate change.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today the resolution of a civil forfeiture case involving a strip mall located at 1533 West Blvd, near the corner of West Boulevard and Remount Road in Charlotte.

By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON ‐ A 23-year-old Pasadena man has been charged with firearm and drug trafficking offenses for his role in the shooting of a Houston Police Department (HPD) officer, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Rauon Gordon, age 28, an inmate at FCI Allenwood, was indicted by a federal grand jury for unlawful possession of prohibited objects by a federal prison inmate.

By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that United States District Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced Adrian Hernandez-Gutierrez, age 36, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, yesterday to 24 months’ imprisonment and a one year term of supervised release, for the crimes of Aggravated Identity Theft, Social Security Account Number Fraud and Illegal Reentry of a Removed Alien.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: Milwaukee, WI - The U.S. Marshals Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force, in coordination with the Racine Police Department, is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Terry “Scooter Man" Jackson. Jackson is 41 years old, 5 foot 9 inches tall, weighs about 200 pounds and has a large distinctive tattoo with scorpion/spider arms and block lettering on his throat. Jackson should be considered armed and dangerous.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Diamond Bar man was arrested today on federal charges alleging that he disrupted a “Stop Asian Hate" rally in March 2021 by deliberately running a red light, blocking the path of demonstrators lawfully using a crosswalk and yelling racial epithets at them.

By Homeland Newswire | May 12, 2022
Release: Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Chair of the Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on National Nuclear Security Administration and Environmental Management.

By DOL Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: SIOUX FALLS, SD - Twice in seven days, federal workplace safety inspectors found a Sioux Falls contractor put workers at risk of being buried under thousands of pounds of soil while they worked in unprotected trenches at two locations in Tea and Salem.

By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Holly Adams, 31, and Devlin Hosner, 33, of Indio, charging them with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine, and with conspiracy to launder money, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.

By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger announced a former pharmacist was arrested today for her role in distributing and dispensing outside the course of professional practice large quantities of oxycodone and other controlled substances from a pharmacy located in Trenton.
By Interior Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: RENO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management invites the public to a series of public scoping meetings on the proposed Greenlink West Project that would be constructed and operated by Nevada Power Company and Sierra Pacific Power Company (dba NV Energy). The Greenlink West Project would be a system of new 525-kilovolt (kV), 345-kV, 230-kV, and 120-kV electric transmission facilities on private, state, and federal lands between northern and southern Nevada.

By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
BJA FY 22 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence grant opened on May 12.

By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Last week, a federal grand jury in Tucson returned a two-count indictment against Kevin Michal Bell, 41, and Dara Eve Belic, 38, both of Las Vegas, charging Conspiracy to Transport Illegal Aliens for Profit Placing in Jeopardy the Life of Any Person and Transportation of Illegal Aliens for Profit Placing in Jeopardy the Life of Any Person.
By USDA Newswire | May 12, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee on May 11.

By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man has been charged and has agreed to plead guilty to fraud, identity theft, firearm and drug offenses.

By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man was arrested today for possessing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

By DOE Newswire | May 12, 2022
Notice of Intent to issue Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) no. DE-FOA-0002611 entitled Fiscal Year 2022 Vehicle Technologies Office Program Wide FOA. grant opened on May 12.

By State Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: On behalf of the United States, I congratulate President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on his election as the Philippines’ next president. We look forward to working with President-elect Marcos to strengthen the enduring alliance between the United States and the Philippines. Our special partnership is ...