News published on Federal Newswire in January 2023

News from January 2023



News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero, together with Associate Attorney General for the Department of Justice Vanita Gupta, U.S. Attorneys for the Districts of New Jersey, Colorado and Eastern New York, and representatives from the DEA and Justice Department’s Civil Division’s Consumer Protection...


News Release: Conservation Diaries: Olf Mouyaka, Advocating for Youth Programs, Volunteering, and Urban Parks.


News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Mercer County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for attempting to interfere with law enforcement officers during a civil disorder when he attempted to set fire to a police vehicle during a riot in Trenton, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.


DOS-MNG offers new grant application process starting Jan. 11

2023 Local Grants Program - Annual Program Statement grant opened on Jan. 11.


News Release: Tampa, FL - Bladimir Moreno, 55, was sentenced for leading a federal racketeering and forced labor conspiracy that victimized Mexican H-2A agricultural workers in the United States between 2015 and 2017. U.S. District Court Judge Charlene Edward Honeywell of the Middle District of Florida sentenced Moreno to 118 months in prison with three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay over $175,000 in restitution to the victims.


News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A New York man was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for transporting multiple items of child sexual abuse into New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.


Michigan Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Drug Crime

News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Brandon Lamarr McCauley, also known as “Louie," 30, of Detroit, Michigan, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute heroin.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Pennsylvania-based medical device distributor Jet Medical Inc. (Jet) agreed to pay $200,000 to resolve criminal allegations relating to a migraine headache treatment, and Jet and two related companies agreed to pay another $545,000 in a civil settlement involving the same device.


Enumclaw, Washington, woman sentenced for criminal scheme to steal flood control tax dollars

News Release: Seattle - The wife of the former long-time Commissioner of an East King County drainage district was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to three years in prison and three years of supervised release for multiple federal felonies connected to a scheme to steal tax dollars intended for flood...


News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Will Thompson will appear before the West Virginia Board of Education during its 9 a.m. meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023, to promote career technical education law and public safety programs.


News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MARLON AMAYA-LOPEZ, also known as Elder Figueroa, 35, a citizen of Honduras last residing in Bridgeport, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to one count of illegally reentering the U.S. after being deported.


News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar today sentenced Dennis James Harrison, age 40, of Rocky Ridge, Maryland, to 45 years in federal prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for the sexual exploitation of children to produce child pornography, related to the sexual...


Two Colombian Nationals Plead Guilty to International Cocaine Distribution

News Release: Defendants Had Ties to Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)


News Release: Public Safety Canada and U.S. Department of Homeland Security


Міністерство юстиції надає афганцям та українцям ресурси щодо їхніх прав зайнятості

News Release: Міністерство юстиції оголосило сьогодні про ресурси, що допоможуть афганцям та українцям у Сполучених Штатах зрозуміти свої права на працевлаштування. Ці ресурси пояснюють захист на робочому місці, право на який афганські та українські іммігранти мають відповідно до Закону про імміграцію та громадянство ...


News Release: FARGO - United States Attorney Mac Schneider announced that on January 6, 2023, United States District Judge Daniel L. Hovland sentenced 32-year-old Darius Sledge, a/k/a Ace, a/k/a Man Man, a/k/a Frank Love, a/k/a Gary, a/k/a Bill, to serve 30 years in prison followed by three years supervised release.


News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Guatemala has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of reentry of removed alien, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


Texas man convicted of armed bank robbery during violent crime spree that left one dead

News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 43-year-old Corpus Christi man is facing life in prison after robbing a bank during a 45-minute crime spree that left one person dead and another seriously injured, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.


PAMS-SC grant application closes on March 30

Innovative Fusion Technology and Collaborative Fusion Energy Research in the DIII-D National Program grant opened on Jan. 11.