News published on Federal Newswire in October 2022

News from October 2022


News Release: Louisville, KY - A federal grand jury returned a seven-count indictment today charging a Caldwell County Kentucky man with sexually exploiting two children and with distributing and possessing child pornography.


Nashville Social Club Owner Pleads Guilty To Crime Involving Campaign Finance Scheme

News Release: NASHVILLE - A Nashville, Tennessee man pleaded guilty today to violating campaign finance laws to benefit Tennessee State Senator Brian Kelsey’s 2016 campaign for U.S. Congress.


DOI-FWS grant application closes on Feb. 17

F23AS00035_FY 2023 Competitive State Wildlife Grant (C-SWG) Program grant opened on Oct. 20.


News Release: SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $14,504,000 for water improvement projects in Arizona, California, Nevada and Hawai’i to implement Nonpoint Source (NPS) management plans. Nonpoint source pollution is caused by rainfall moving over the ground, leading to runoff which picks up natural and man-made pollutants as it flows. NPS pollution, unlike pollution from industrial and sewage treatment plants, comes from many diffuse sources.


What releases are upcoming from the National Park Service on Oct. 21

There are two releases scheduled to be published on Oct. 21.


Decision: Changes coming to how Campbell Tract is managed

News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Anchorage Field Office signed a decision on the Recreation Area Management Plan (RAMP) for the Campbell Tract on Sept. 30. The Campbell Tract was reserved for use by the BLM as an administrative site in 1982 and designated a special recreation management...


Keokuk Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Drug and Firearm Charges

News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - John Herman Soper, age 50 of Keokuk, was sentenced today, Oct. 19, 2022, to 19 years in prison following his plea to the charges of Possession with Intent to Distribute 50 Grams or More of Methamphetamine and Felon in Possession of a Firearm and Ammunition.


News Release: COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA -U.S. Attorney Adair F. Boroughs announced today that the Department of Justice has awarded more than $1.8 million to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods Program in the District of South Carolina. Funding will support community efforts to address the epidemic of gun crime...


News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man was convicted of multiple narcotics trafficking offenses, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.


News Release: Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released a demographic profile of Guam from the 2020 Island Areas Censuses. The demographic profile provides basic demographic, social, economic and housing characteristics for Guam and lower levels of geography.


Newark Man Charged with Carjacking and Firearms Offenses

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man was arraigned for his alleged role in an armed carjacking in Montclair, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.


News Release: CODY, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Cody Field Office and Friends of a Legacy (FOAL) partnered in October to remove saltcedar on public and private land in the McCullough Peaks Wild Horse Herd Management Area (HMA) east of Cody.


Former New York Mob Hitman Sentenced to Three Years’ Imprisonment for Escape from Orlando Half-Way House

News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton has sentenced Dominic Taddeo, Jr. (65) to 3 years in federal prison for his escape from an Orlando half-way house, to be served consecutively to his remaining term of imprisonment on other federal convictions. Taddeo had pleaded guilty to the escape on May 17, 2022.


Expo Focuses on Safety at Work, Home for Hanford Employees

News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM crews at the Hanford Site ’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) recently held an employee safety expo highlighting information, equipment, supplies and success stories promoting the health and safety of workers both at home and the jobsite. The expo also promoted WTP...


News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Jonathan Sepulveda-Lara, 44, of Manchester, was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison for the sale of fentanyl and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced.


News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Lawrence Guerain Fleming, 38, of Sacramento, was sentenced today to three years and one month in prison for two counts of being a felon in possession of ammunition, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.


News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Nevada woman was indicted today on wire fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice charges related to a $7 million advance fee Ponzi scheme and obstructing the government’s investigation, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.


Release: U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will travel to Tokyo and Seattle October 24-27. This will be her fourth trip to the Indo-Pacific region since May and demonstrates the United States’ continued commitment to the region and our allies Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK).


Labor Department discusses Technical Advisory Committee; Notice of Meeting and Agenda on Oct. 19

The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Oct. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Suspected Serial Bank Robber Arrested

News Release: GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO-On Monday, Oct. 17, 2022, the Greenwood Village Police Department, with the assistance of FBI Denver’s Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force, arrested Markee Denzel Hagans, 24, of Utah. Officers made contact with Hagans, who was inside a vehicle, at a hotel parking lot. He was arrested without incident.