News published on Federal Newswire in October 2022

News from October 2022


Six Individuals Charged with Conspiring to Act as Illegal Agents of the People's Republic of China

News Release: PRC Officials Directed Multi-Year Campaign of Harassment Intended to Coerce U.S. Resident to Return to the PRC.



Secretary Blinken’s Call with Italian Foreign Minister Di Maio

Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that on Oct. 18 Derick Martin Garcia Pacheco was sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in prison. Garcia Pacheco, 33, of Albuquerque, pleaded guilty on May 10 to one count of assault on a federal officer using a deadly or dangerous weapon and inflicting bodily injury and one count of being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.


News Release: CAPE GIRARDEAU - The United States Attorney's Office announced that Haoyu Wang, age 29, has been sentenced to serve seven years in federal prison for the offense of Possession of Child Pornography. Wang appeared for his sentencing hearing Monday before United States District Judge Stephen R. Clark at the federal courthouse in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.


Suburban Chicago Man Sentenced to More Than Ten Years in Federal Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl and Heroin

News Release: ROCKFORD - A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to more than ten years in federal prison for trafficking fentanyl and heroin.


Release: Thank you, Andres, for that introduction. Welcome to the Commerce Department’s Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Summit. I’m thrilled to be joined by Deputy Secretary Graves and Under Secretary Cravins. And most importantly, thank you all for participating today.



TSA hosts training for working canines, their handlers in Avon

Release: INDIANAPOLIS The Transportation Security Administrations (TSA) Indiana Explosive Detection Canine Program hosted its sixth-annual Multi-Agency K9 Training Event in Avon on Friday.


Luzerne County Man Pleads Guilty To Fentanyl Trafficking

News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that John Williams, age 42, of Kingston, Luzerne County, pleaded guilty on Oct. 19, 2022, before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to the charge of conspiracy to distribute more than 40 grams of fentanyl.


Biden Administration Continues Phasedown of Super-Pollutants to Combat Climate Change and Boost U.S. Manufacturing

News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced additional actions to phase down climate-damaging hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a crucial component of President Biden’s ambitious agenda to combat the climate crisis while advancing American manufacturing and innovation. EPA today ...


Seven Chicago-Area Residents Charged With $16 Million COVID-Relief Fraud

News Release: CHICAGO - Seven Chicago-area residents have been indicted on federal charges for allegedly fraudulently obtaining at least $16 million in small business loans and grants under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES") Act.


Athens, Georgia, Grandmother Convicted of Trafficking Methamphetamine

News Release: ATHENS, Ga. -- An Athens resident was convicted by a federal jury of trafficking methamphetamine resulting from an investigation and subsequent arrest during which she and a co-defendant attempted to flee law enforcement with her two-year-old grandchild in the car.


News Release: New Orleans, LA - On Oct. 15, 2019, with critical support from the U.S. Border Patrol, New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), and the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) International Division, the USMS New Orleans Task Force located and arrested NOPD fugitive, Martin Jose Jarquin-Estrada, 31 years of age, in Zacatecas, Mexico. He was wanted by NOPD for a 2017 Murder.


Inspections find Dollar General continues to discount safety as violations, penalties pile up for blocked exits, unsafe storage areas, other hazards

News Release: ATLANTA - Dollar General Corp. and Dolgencorp LLC - operator of more than 18,000 Dollar General discount stores in 47 states - has again ignored federal workplace safety standards, this time identified during inspections at four locations in Alabama, Florida and Georgia. The company faces $1,680,216 in proposed penalties after these inspections, a portion of the more than $9.6 million in total initial penalties the company has received since 2017.


U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona Observes Domestic Violence Awareness Month

News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - United States Attorney Gary Restaino joins the U.S. Department of Justice, the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), advocates, survivors, victim service providers, justice professionals, police and first responders, communities across the U.S. and sovereign tribal nations in observing October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM).


The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on Oct. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man was arrested this morning for unlawfully using victims’ personal identification information to steal over $1 million, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.


News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - A federal grand jury in Indianapolis, returned a five-count superseding indictment late yesterday charging a former New Castle, Indiana, police officer with excessive force and obstruction of justice, and a former Henry County, Indiana, Reserve Sheriff’s Deputy with obstruction of justice.


Biden-Harris Administration Announces More Than $74 Million to Create Good-Paying Union Jobs, Catalyze Economic Revitalization in Kentucky

News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland traveled to Kentucky today to announce a $74,252,680 investment from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to create good-paying union jobs and catalyze economic opportunity by reclaiming abandoned mine lands (AML) in the state. This is ...