News from September 2022

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Chidozie Collins Obasi, 29, of Nigeria, was charged by Indictment with one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, six counts of mail fraud, and 16 counts of wire fraud, all stemming from a complicated, evolving fraud...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
Release: DES MOINES Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers prevented a handgun from making its way onboard an airplane at Des Moines International Airport (DSM) Monday.

By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: UPDATES. As mechanical objects, gears have been around for so long that people may take them for granted. But gears are sophisticated parts that play a vital role in cars, airplanes, construction and mining equipment, food processing, clock making and more. And companies are still trying to make them...

By DOE Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - A former U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM ) intern is hoping to parlay her experience at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site this past summer into a full-time career, joining her parents in the profession of industrial hygiene.

By DOL Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - After more than two years, a Chicago restaurant owner has finally complied with an administrative subpoena to provide documentation for a U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division investigation. The compliance comes after a federal judge held Wilson Torres, owner of La Bomba Food Restaurant Inc., in contempt and confined him to one night in jail and ordered him to pay $40,500 in fines.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: CLEVELAND - Terry L. Jackson Sr., 50, of Elyria, Ohio, was sentenced on Thursday, September 8, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Donald C. Nugent to more than 21.5 years in prison after Jackson was convicted in a trial by jury of distributing cocaine base (crack) and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, cocaine base (crack) and methamphetamine.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
There are two releases scheduled to be published on Sept. 14.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: DALLAS, TEXAS – (September 12th, 2022) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced an agreement with TPC Group LLC to correct Clean Air Act violations at its Houston, Texas facility. This agreement alleges the facility has multiple deficiencies, including visible external corrosion of equipment ...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that WILLIAM SADLEIR was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer to six years in prison for his participation in two fraudulent schemes relating to investments made by a New York-based investment...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Alejandro Galvan-Silvestre, 23, of Bakersfield, was arrested today, charged with knowingly aiming the beam of a laser pointer at Air One, a Kern County Sheriff’s Office helicopter, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: ROCKFORD - A man was sentenced today to 41 years in federal prison in connection with a series of violent retail-store robberies in Rockford.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Sept. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria, Illinois, man, DaJuan Edwards-Melton, 21, of the 2100 block of W. Antoinette Street, was sentenced on September 8, 2022, to an aggregate 37 months in federal prison for his role in the burglary of a federally licensed firearms dealer and for possession of stolen firearms. Following the term of imprisonment, Edwards-Melton will serve a three-year term of supervised release.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
Release: SAN ANTONIO, TX The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) National Canine Training Center (CTC) located at Lackland Air Force Base hosted a swearing in ceremony to welcome the newest and youngest canine officer, 10-year-old Devarjaye DJ Daniel on Tuesday, September 13. DJ was transported onto the base by representatives of The Ferrari Kid non-profit organization in a Ferrari vehicle.

By State Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: ECONOMY SECRETARY CLOUTHIER: (Via interpreter) So good afternoon. What a pleasure to be here once more after this very good meeting with the president of Mexico and with Secretary Blinken and Secretary Raimondo. Ambassador Salazar and all our friends from Mexico, welcome, everyone – want to welcome you ...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: MOBILE, AL - A Jones, Alabama, man was sentenced in federal court today for his possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Daniel Martin Bridge, 39, pled guilty to the charge in March of 2022.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Sept. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that on September 9, 2022 GREGORY MASSEY, age 28, and PATRICIA HART, age 24, were charged in an 11-count indictment by a federal grand jury for violations of the Federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act, specifically, conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Sept. 12, 2022, the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, sentenced James David Morrow, 51, of Maryville, Tennessee, to 15 years in prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - A little more than a month after historic flooding hit Eastern Kentucky, survivors who lost their homes are beginning to move into FEMA Temporary Housing Units. The units are being placed on private sites-when feasible-and in commercial parks. FEMA has leased spaces at available commercial housing sites located within the affected area.