News from February 2023
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: Today, the Department of Justice and the Department of Commerce are launching the Disruptive Technology Strike Force. Under the leadership of the Justice Department’s National Security Division and the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), the strike force will bring together experts ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Kyla Gilbert, 26, of Beckley, was sentenced today to three years of federal probation in connection with a conspiracy to traffic more than 130 firearms from the Beckley area to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: BOSTON - A Weymouth man has been sentenced for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed prodigious amounts of cocaine from Puerto Rico, which he and a co-conspirator obtained via the U.S. mail.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 16, 2023 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today presented the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) highest honor to 39 teams of distinguished employees who made the most significant accomplishments that support USDA’s mission, strategic goals, objectives and priorities. Vilsack also presented a Secretary’s Act of Valor Award to a team that risked injury to themselves by attempting lifesaving actions during a disaster response.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: MERIDEN, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JEAN CARLOS MERCADO, 34, of Meriden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 50 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his participation in a drug trafficking organization that used the U.S. Mail to ship kilogram quantities of cocaine from Puerto Rico to Connecticut.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released data from the Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS), a survey that measures business conditions on an ongoing basis. The BTOS is the successor to the Small Business Pulse Survey (SBPS), a high-frequency survey that measured the effect of changing business conditions during the coronavirus pandemic and other major events like hurricanes on our nation’s small businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - A federal jury convicted Davenport men, Najawaun Marcus Quinn, 26, and Dimetri Alexander Smith, 30, yesterday following a 7-day jury trial for racketeering related charges. Quinn was convicted of Assault With a Dangerous Weapon in Aid of Racketeering, Using and Carrying a Firearm During...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: In August 2020, the Dome Fire consumed nearly 44,000 acres (70 square miles) in Mojave National Preserve and burned an estimated 1.3 million eastern Joshua trees (Yucca jaegeriana) in one of the largest and densest Joshua tree forests in the world. The fire was just one of the many record-breaking wildfires...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Rio Grande Village Nature Trail. Amenities. 2 listed. Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits, Scenic View/Photo Spot. In front of you loom the Sierra del Carmen, a range of massive limstone cliffs that reflect pink and purple hues at sunset. The limestone rock was deposited...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking public comment on updates to regulations regarding public access to and conduct on all Reclamation projects, waters and real property. Reclamation is updating the existing definitions for aircraft usage and the possession of firearms, updating regulations...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today’s Energy, Climate, & Grid Security Subcommittee field hearing in Midland, Texas, titled: “American Energy Expansion: Improving Local Economies and Communities’ Way of Life."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANGEL CORREA-ORTIZ, 38, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his involvement in a cocaine trafficking ring.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: PHILADELPHIA (Feb. 16, 2023) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is holding a virtual listening session on EPA’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap for residents living in EPA’s Mid-Atlantic Region on Thursday, March 2 from 6-8 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: FORT SMITH - A Clarksville man has been sentenced to federal prison for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance. The Honorable Judge P.K. Holmes, III, presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fort Smith.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Duncan, South Carolina man was sentenced today to 51 months in prison for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Darion D. Jackson, also known as “D," 23, of Michigan, was sentenced today to two years and six months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - The lead of 11 defendants charged as part of a national narcotics distribution operation bringing drugs into Central Ohio from California pleaded guilty in federal court here today.
By State Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Chris Coons (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Agencies, yesterday reintroduced the Securing Allies Food ...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposed rule that would improve and modernize the pesticide Application Exclusion Zone (AEZ) requirements under the 2015 Agricultural Worker Protection Standard (WPS), reaffirming the Agency’s commitment to protecting farmworkers, pesticide handlers, their families, and agricultural communities from pesticide exposure during National Pesticide Safety Education Month.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - Her Tou Yang, age 42, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced on Feb. 15, 2023, to 60 months and 1 day in prison following his plea of guilty to possession with intent to distribute marijuana and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. After he is released from prison, Yang will serve two years of supervised release.
