News from October 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Thomas Zayas (46, Orlando) to 35 years in federal prison for enticing a minor child to produce sexually explicit videos and for possessing that material. Zayas was also ordered to serve a 15-year term of supervised release, register as a sex offender, and forfeit his smartphones. Zayas had pleaded guilty on July 26, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Mark Totten today announced that Jonathan Joshua Munafo, 35, most recently of Winter Park, Florida, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff to 24 months in prison and three years’ supervised release for threatening emergency dispatch personnel and tying up an emergency phone line for three hours.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Phoenix, Arizona, woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to smuggling approximately 23 kilograms of methamphetamine and more than a kilogram of fentanyl aboard a bus passing through Kansas City, Mo., enroute to St. Louis, Mo.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: NOVI, MI - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI), Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, participated in a fireside chat during this year’s annual Michigan Cyber Summit with the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Jen Easterly. The conversation,...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), today announced $150 million in funding provided by President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act for infrastructure improvements at DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to enhance nuclear energy research and...
By State Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: FOREIGN MINISTER JOLY: Well, welcome, Tony, to Ottawa. It’s great to have you in town and actually also to show you my hometown tomorrow, Montreal. We have a very strong relationship between Canada and the U.S., based on our shared history, common values, and a very strong friendship. And also thank you for your friendship, because it’s been really terrific working with you over the last year. And at the same time, we’re facing many global challenges, so let’s get to work.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: Sold Firearm, Stolen from Police Officer, to Undercover Federal Agent.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON -The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Gregory Dehart, age 32, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced yesterday to 18 months’ imprisonment to be followed by 2 years of supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion for firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Corwin Cordell Garrett, age 46, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 24 months in prison to be followed by 6 years of supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, for distributing heroin.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a two page rule on Oct. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Oct. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Oct. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: On Oct. 25, DOE CESER Acting Deputy Director Fowad Muneer joined DOE Deputy Secretary, David Turk, DOE and DOT Joint Office of Energy and Transportation Executive Director Gabe Klein, and the Acting Director for DOE’s Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) Michael Berube to the EV Cybersecurity Executive...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: Three Defendants Sentenced in Multi-State Racketeering Conspiracy Involving Forced Labor of Mexican Agricultural H-2A Workers.
By State Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
Release: Summary: The United States’ priority is to ensure that Ukraine has the weapons it needs to defend its territory against Russia’s further invasion. Helping to ensure Ukraine maintains control of its territory is a primary means to limit potential illicit diversion of weapons by Russia’s forces, Russia’s...
By State Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: Houston, TX - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul has released the following statement in response to an Inspector General report on the State Department’s handling of Special Immigrant Visas (SIV) in Afghanistan. SIVs are issued to Afghans who worked for, or on behalf of,...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: Throughout Nearly Two Decades, Karim Elkorany Drugged 20 Victims and Sexually Assaulted at Least 13 of Those Victims.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON -- More than $1.5 billion in federal grants, disaster loans and flood insurance payments has been provided to the state of Florida and households to help survivors jumpstart their recovery after Hurricane Ian.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Richard Tyler Hunsinger has pleaded guilty to assault on a federal officer and destruction of government property stemming from his use of a homemade explosive device during a protest which threatened the lives of two federal officers during the summer of 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence man found by law enforcement to be in possession of more than 50 grams of crystal methamphetamine and two guns was sentenced today to five years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
