News from January 2023
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Matthew B. Millhollin, Special Agent in Charge, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Boston, announced that KYLE FASOLD, 52, of formerly of Plainville, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 300 months of imprisonment, followed by 15 years of supervised release, for child exploitation offenses.
By State Newswire Report | Jan 17, 2023
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said signing the declaration on the North American Partnership for Equity and Racial Justice with Mexico and Canada reflects a shared commitment on those issues.
By Tamara Browning | Jan 17, 2023
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of the General Counsel released an addendum of the agency’s legal authorities to identify and address cumulative impacts of pollution on underserved communities.
By Karen Kidd | Jan 17, 2023
The Biden-Harris administration recently released the U.S. National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization.
By Tamara Browning | Jan 17, 2023
A 31-year veteran of the National Park Service is the new permanent superintendent of Golden Gate National Recreation Area surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area.
By DOE Newswire Report | Jan 17, 2023
A team of researchers at Lawrence Berkeley Lab have developed a new method of heating and cooling known as ionocaloric cooling, which they believe could someday replace current vapor compression methods.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Duvany Zambrano, age 43, of Hamilton, New Jersey, and Sergio Jara, age 37, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, were indicted on January 4, 2023, by a federal grand jury for defrauding the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.
By State Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
“HENRY J. HYDE UNITED STATES AND INDIA NUCLEAR COOPERATION PROMOTION ACT OF 2006--CONFERENCE REPORT” was published on pages S11822-S11825 of the Congressional Record on Dec. 8, 2006.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - CUONG NGUYEN, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced on January 5, 2023 by U.S. District Court Judge Barry W. Ashe to ninety-three (93) months of incarceration after pleading guilty to a four-count indictment. Judge Ashe ordered that NGUYEN be placed on supervised release for a term of three (3) years following his release from imprisonment. NGUYEN was also ordered to pay a total mandatory special assessment fee of $400.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal jury in Houston has found a 33-year-old former state trooper guilty for assaulting two women while on duty, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MARVIN YOUNG, of New Orleans, pleaded guilty as charged on January 5, 2023 to being a felon in possession of a firearm before the Honorable Eldon E. Fallon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that two men from Lake Charles were sentenced by U.S. District Judge James D. Cain, Jr. yesterday for illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On Jan. 3, 2023, a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against Isrrael Millan, 19, of San Luis, Arizona, for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and Importation of Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Ameen Alai, age 49, of Westminster, has been indicted on one count of distribution of ibogaine, a Schedule I controlled substance, resulting in death.
By Sam Jackson | Jan 17, 2023
U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) recently spoke on the floor of the House about China, saying both the American business and political communities are becoming too tolerant of the communist state's human rights abuses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
News Release: HOUSTON - A 27-year-old security guard working at a downtown Houston nightclub has been sent to prison following his conviction of a violent armed robbery in 2019, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
News Release: BOISE - A federal grand jury in Boise returned an indictment on Jan. 11, charging an Idaho man with distribution of fentanyl resulting in serious bodily injury or death.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
News Release: Defendant Violently Attacked Officer. WASHINGTON - A Texas man was found guilty in the District of Columbia today of felony and misdemeanor charges for his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
Release: LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers in Arkansas detected 59 firearms in travelers carry-on luggage in 2022, with the majority of the firearms discovered at Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airports (LIT) security checkpoint. Every one of these firearms was discovered during the routine X-ray screening of carry-on property. Nationwide last year, TSA officers found 6,542 firearms at 262 different airports.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Today, Johnnie Leeanozg Davis, 36, from Montgomery, Alabama, was sentenced to 315 months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Sandra J. Stewart. The judge also ordered Davis to serve three years of supervised release following his prison sentence. There is no parole in the federal system.
