News from November 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2022
News Release: This week, the Human Rights Campaign announced in its annual report that at least 32 transgender and gender-nonconforming people have been killed in the United States in 2022 - “at least" because transgender victims may be misgendered in news or police reports, and deaths of transgender people often go unreported. The report described the victims as “overwhelmingly Black, under 35 and killed with a firearm" with trans women disproportionately at risk.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2022
News Release: PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public input and holding virtual public scoping meetings on the Ivanpah-Control transmission line project, a proposal to upgrade existing transmission lines in portions of Inyo, Kern, and San Bernardino counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2022
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Blaine man has been arrested and charged in a federal criminal complaint for illegal possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2022
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Nov. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A former employee of the Department of Veteran Affairs, Veteran Benefits Administration Regional Office (VARO) in Providence has been charged by way of a federal criminal complaint with retaliating against a federal official by threatening, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 19, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on Nov. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2022
News Release: A California couple who fled to Montenegro to avoid serving lengthy prison sentences has been returned to the United States after approximately one year and two months as fugitives.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Bureau of Land Management Las Vegas Field Office is seeking comment on the environmental effects of conveying the Three Kids Mine site to the City of Henderson which is authorized by the Three Kids Mine Remediation and Reclamation Act of July 25, 2014. The public will be able to provide comments on these documents during a 30-day period from Nov. 18, 2022, through Dec. 19, 2022.
By State Newswire | Nov 19, 2022
Release: Under Secretary of State Jose W. Fernandez participated in the 6th U.S.-Republic of Korea (ROK) Joint Public-Private Economic Forum: “U.S.-ROK Economic Cooperation for a Transformed Economic Landscape," hosted by the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the Korea Economic Institute...
By Tamara Browning | Nov 18, 2022
Wildlife's ability to follow their natural seasonal and regional migration patterns has gotten federal support in the form of a new policy released by the Bureau of Land Management.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
Davenport man, George Winston Taylor, was sentenced on Wednesday, October 26, 2022, to 260 months in prison for Receiving Child Pornography. Taylor was also ordered to pay $48,000 in restitution. Following his imprisonment, Taylor was ordered to serve five years of supervised release.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Dary T. Son, age 36, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo to failing to collect and pay over employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
Theodore L. Snow, III, age 39 of Council Bluffs, was sentenced on Friday, October 28, 2022, to 130 months in prison following his plea of guilty to Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime. Snow will be on supervised release for five years after his release from imprisonment
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
An Iowa City man and India native, Sameer Chandulal Patel, age 30, was sentenced on Friday, October 28, 2022, to 210 months in prison for receipt and distribution of child pornography.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
An Iowa City man and Zambia native, Kachimbe Mukanzu, also known as Kash, was sentenced on Wednesday, October 26, 2022, to 264 months in prison for Conspiracy to Engage in Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud, and Coercion and Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
Five people, all from the Quad Cities area, have now been sentenced to federal prison for their role as members of a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking organization in Davenport.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
Timothy Allen Smith, age 32, of Joliet, Illinois was sentenced on Wednesday, October 26, 2022, to 144 months in prison following his guilty plea to Conspiracy to Distribute at Least 50 Grams of Actual Methamphetamine and Distribution of 50 grams and more of Methamphetamine.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on October 24, 2022, Waylon Hutcheson, age 22, of Red Lion, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner for drug trafficking and firearms offenses.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
A Macon resident who was previously convicted and sentenced to ten years imprisonment for voluntary manslaughter in Bibb County pleaded guilty to a federal gun charge resulting from Operation United Front, an ongoing ATF-led investigation into illegal gun possession and drug distribution in Middle Georgia utilizing the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN).
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Stephen D. Warner will lead the efforts of his office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 8, 2022, general election.
