News from October 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that on Oct. 5, Anthony Faustine, 42, of Acoma, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Acoma, was sentenced on to five years and 10 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Freedom, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on Receipt of Material Involving the Sexual Exploitation of a Minor as well as Attempted Sex Trafficking of a Child, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on Oct. 11.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: SANTA FE, N.M. - In accordance with congressional direction in the Inflation Reduction Act, Bureau of Land Management New Mexico started a 30-day scoping period to receive public input on 45 parcels totaling 10,123.91 acres that may be included in an upcoming lease sale.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: Defendant Also Pleads Guilty to Firearms Charge Stemming from Search of Home This Year.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Lemack Bellot was sentenced to ten years in prison for attempting to aid and abet possession with intent to distribute cocaine in connection with a scheme to smuggle drugs through San Francisco International Airport (SFO), announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Drug Enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: EL PASO, TX-On October 4, 2022, at approximately 13:00 hours, the FBI El Paso Field Office was contacted by the Ysleta U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) Station regarding an agent involved shooting involving a person who had been detained and was being processed at the Ysleta Border Patrol Station. The person was transported to a local hospital for medical treatment and later died from his injuries.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Kevin Edward Hargrave (50, Locust Grove, Georgia), formerly known as Kevin Edward Wade, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud and to defraud the United States for the purpose of impeding the lawful functions of the Internal Revenue Service. Hargrave faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Today, a federal jury convicted Luis Flores-Reyes, a/k/a “Maloso," “Lobo,"’ and “Viejo Lovvon," age 41, of Arlington, Virginia; Jairo Jacome, a/k/a “Abuelo," age 40, of Langley Park, Maryland; and Brayan Contreras-Avalos, a/k/a “Anonimo," and “Humilde," age 27, of Langley Park, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
There are two releases scheduled to be published on Oct. 11.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - William Josiah Scrivner, 36, of Fairfield, pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Dena J. King announced today that Jose Francisco Vasquez-Rico, 22, and Andrew Estiben Reyna-Rodriguez, 23, both of Charlotte, were sentenced to 168 months and 51 months in prison, respectively, for trafficking fentanyl and methamphetamine. U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell also ordered the defendants to serve five years of supervised release upon completion of their prison terms.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on President Biden’s announcement that he would issue an executive order pardoning all people convicted of simple marijuana possession under federal law...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: For Bank Robbery. SOUTH BEND - Shamond Jenkins, 20 years old, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge Jon E. DeGuilio after being found guilty by a jury in December 2021, of bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson. Jenkins was sentenced...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas released the following statement regarding today’s ruling on the DACA: “I am deeply disappointed by today’s DACA ruling and the ongoing uncertainty it creates for families and communities across the country. We are currently reviewing the court’s decision ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - On Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, a jury found Israel Alberto Rivas Gomez, 27, a citizen of El Salvador unlawfully residing in Mendota, guilty of kidnapping and murder in aid of racketeering, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Tamara Browning | Oct 7, 2022
The Bureau of Reclamation will provide $6.6 million to 21 new projects and 120 continuing, multi-year projects that research solutions to water and power problems in the west.
By Karen Kidd | Oct 7, 2022
A Delaware woman was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison on federal wire fraud and tax evasion charges.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: Culvert Grant Program established by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
By State Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
Release: Since the military coup in Burma over 18 months ago, the Burmese military regime has perpetrated violence against Burma’s people, killing thousands, displacing more than a million people, and detaining pro-democracy advocates, political opposition leaders, members of civil society, and journalists all in a brutal attempt to consolidate its control.
