News from October 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - United States Attorney Dena J. King announced today that Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs) Michael Savage in Charlotte, and Don Gast in Asheville, will lead the efforts of their Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 8, 2022, general election.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Lance Marion Cojo was sentenced on Oct. 11 to two years in prison. Cojo, 36, of Mescalero, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Tribe, pleaded guilty on April 26 to one count of assault of an intimate or dating partner resulting in substantial bodily injury and one count of assault of an intimate or dating partner by strangling.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Oct. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Last month,35members introduced the Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act of 2022with the backing ofnumerous stakeholdergroups and organizations.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: Palm Springs, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management and fire crews from the California Desert Interagency Fire Program will treat up to 133 acres of public land with prescribed fire in the Dos Palmas Preserve in eastern Riverside County to prevent wildfire risk.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management invites mountain bike riders and hikers to come outdoors and enjoy the beautiful fall colors peaking on the Bizz Johnson National Recreation Trail, when the Bureau of Land Management and Lassen Rural Bus offer a special shuttle service, Saturday, Oct. 22, between Susanville and Westwood.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on Oct. 20.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Patrick Botello, 36, of Richmond, was sentenced today to 11 years and three months in prison for participating in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Gathe, Jr. 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, and communities across the U.S. in observing October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM).
By State Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
Release: Buna ziua! My name is Geoff Pyatt, and I am the State Department’s new Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources. I am really delighted to be here in Bucharest as part of my first trip as Assistant Secretary.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: A federal grand jury recently returned a three-count indictment charging James Martin, age 50, of Beckville, Texas, with distribution of child pornography. Martin appeared for his arraignment and pled not guilty to the pending charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Anthony Mills, a former Atlanta gynecologist, and Raphael Ogunsusi, a licensed pharmacist who owned two pharmacies, have pleaded guilty for their roles in operating an Atlanta-area “pill mill" network that supplied addicts and drug dealers with large amounts of dangerous prescription drugs through illegal prescribing and dispensing.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Oct. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Two Mexican nationals and one Texas man who are associated with the Jalisco Cartel have been sent to federal prison following their convictions of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute eight kilograms of meth, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Gathe, Jr. announced today that the Department of Justice has awarded $91,149 to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods Program in the Middle District of Louisiana. Funding will support community efforts to address the epidemic of gun crime and serious violence in the district.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: Defendants allegedly laundered more than $25 million in illicit drug proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: Law Enforcement Officers Seized More Than 90 Pounds of Meth, 23 Pounds of Fentanyl, and Two Guns During Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Big Run, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to violation of federal narcotics laws related to a nine-month Title III wiretap investigation into drug trafficking in and around the counties of Jefferson, Clearfield, and Allegheny, United States Attorney Cindy Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: BOISE - Zane Beckman, 29, of Boise, was sentenced to 360 months in federal prison for producing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Oct. 17, 2022, William F. Showers, age 37, of Reading, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to 100 months of imprisonment and a 5-year term of supervised release, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute over 50 grams of methamphetamine.
