News published on Federal Newswire in September 2022

News from September 2022


Philadelphia Felon Pleads Guilty to Illegally Possessing a Firearm with an Extended Magazine While on Parole for Robbery

News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Tyree Little, 22, of Philadelphia, PA, pleaded guilty earlier this week, just before trial was scheduled to begin today, to illegally possessing a firearm with an extended magazine.


News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Felon in Possession of a Firearm.


Arizona Woman Sentenced to Six Years in Prison for Conspiracy to Damage the Dakota Access Pipeline

News Release: DES MOINES, IA - An Arizona woman was sentenced today in federal court to six years in prison for Conspiracy to Damage an Energy Facility. Ruby Katherine Montoya, age 32, was ordered to serve three years of supervised release to follow her prison term and pay $3,198,512.70 in restitution.


News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.


Upshur County woman admits to fentanyl charges

News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Michaela Dawn Gregory, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, has admitted to selling fentanyl, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.


News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the arrest of Brett Avery Tipton (40, Rockledge) on a criminal complaint charging him with enticing a minor to produce child sexual abuse material. If convicted, Tipton faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 10 years, and up to life, in federal prison. Tipton made his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Embry J. Kidd yesterday and was ordered detained pending trial.


The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Sept. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.



News Release: A federal grand jury in Pennsylvania returned an indictment today charging a local man for assaulting a reproductive health care clinic escort in Philadelphia.


Detroit Man Pleads Guilty to Spree of Three Violent Carjackings

News Release: DETROIT - Rayquan Sturgis, 23, of Detroit, MI, pled guilty today to a spree of three violent carjackings he committed in June and July 2020. Sturgis also pled guilty to additional charges of using and discharging a firearm during crimes of violence. Sturgis faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison with a maximum possible sentence of life in prison.



Two Maryland Men Charged with Trafficking Thousands of Fentanyl Pills into Connecticut

News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment yesterday charging OSCAR FLORES, 34, of Mount Rainier, Maryland, and SEVERO ALELAR, 25, of Hyattsville, Maryland, with fentanyl trafficking offenses.


The US Environmental Protection Agency published a three page proposed rule on Sept. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Dzenan Camovic was sentenced by United States District Judge Rachel P. Kovner to 30 years in prison for the robbery of a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer’s firearm and discharging that firearm at several NYPD officers during the course of the...


News Release: WASHINGTON - A Colorado man was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His and others’ actions disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.


East Hartford Resident Sentenced to More Than 11 Years in Federal Prison for Child Sex Trafficking

News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOEL LINDSAY, also known as “Joey Guapo," 24, a citizen of Jamaica last residing in East Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 135 months of imprisonment for child sex trafficking.


News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted an Alexandria man yesterday on charges stemming from a string of armed gas station and convenience store robberies in the Herndon area of Fairfax County.


News Release: DENVER — La Agencia de Protección Ambiental de Estados Unidos y el Departamento de Salud Pública y Medio Ambiente de Colorado desean recibir los comentarios del público sobre el plan de trabajo propuesto para la implementación del memorando de entendimiento que firmaron el 8 de marzo de 2022, cuyo propósito ...


Remarks at Report Launch: Bolstering Energy Security in Northeastern Europe through Transatlantic Cooperation

Release: ASSISTANT SECRETARY PYATT: Good morning. Thank you very much to the Atlantic Council; Fred, for that very generous introduction. Thank you to President Nausėda and our hosts from the Lithuanian Consulate General and the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry for having me here today.


Former Newport News Police Officer Pleads Guilty to the Sexual Exploitation of Children

News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A former sergeant with the Newport News Police Department pleaded guilty today to the sexual exploitation of children and receipt of child pornography.