News from January 2023
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: ELY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management’s reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for shooting and mortally wounding five wild horses in eastern Nevada in late 2021 is now $25,000, courtesy of a $5,000 reward from Wild Horse Education. The BLM’s original award of $5,000 was matched last September by another group’s commitment and matched again a month later by another organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Kansas man pleaded guilty to distribution of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: The United States filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana seeking to bar a Louisiana tax return preparer and her business from assisting in the preparing of federal income tax returns for others.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: Two members of the Aryan Circle were each sentenced today to 10 years in prison for their role in the attempted murder of an inmate that occurred while they were incarcerated at U.S. Penitentiary Yazoo City in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: Four former correctional officers at the Hawaii Community Correctional Center have been sentenced for their roles in the assault of an inmate and participation in a multi-year conspiracy to cover-up the abuse.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
Release: INDIANAPOLIS Transportation Security Administration officers at Indianapolis International Airport (IND) stopped a loaded handgun on Tuesday, Jan. 24 the fourth firearm stopped at an IND checkpoint in the last seven days.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Jan. 18, 2023, a federal jury convicted DeShawn Whited, 25, of Knoxville, Tennessee, of four counts of Hobbs Act Robbery, one count of Attempted Hobbs Act Robbery, one count of carjacking, four counts of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and one count...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: Fargo - United States Attorney Mac Schneider announced that Saunders Jamel Jackson, a/k/a Saunders Jackson-Buckles, age 23 of Fort Totten, ND, appeared before Chief Judge Peter D. Welte, U.S. District Court, Fargo, ND, and was sentenced to a total of 27 years in federal prison followed by 25 years of supervised release for Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child and two counts of Sexual Abuse of a Minor. Jackson pleaded guilty to these offenses on Oct. 13, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: Memphis, TN - Gary Osborne, 50, of Buchanan, Tennessee, has been sentenced to 210 months in federal.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that LUCINDA THOMAS (“THOMAS"), age 67; MARY WADE (“WADE"), age 58; and JUDY WILLIAMS (“WILLIAMS"), age 62, all of Houma, Louisiana, were sentenced on Jan. 19, 2023 for Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, arising out of staged automobile accidents with tractor-trailers occurring in New Orleans.
By State Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of The United States of America and the Republic of Kazakhstan on the occasion of the United States-Kazakhstan High-Level Dialogue on Human Rights and Democratic Reforms.
By State Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
Release: On January 24 in Washington, D.C., Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs Richard T. Yoneoka and Mongolian State Secretary of the Ministry of Road and Transport Development Batbold Sandagdorj signed a Memorandum of Consultations (MOC) finalizing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: An MS-13 gang member was sentenced today to more than five years in federal prison for a drug crime, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Las Vegas, Nevada, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to possessing more than eight pounds of methamphetamine in his duffel bag aboard a bus passing through Kansas City, Mo.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas today hosted the Official Portrait Unveiling Ceremony in honor of former Secretary Jeh Charles Johnson. Jeh Johnson served as the nation’s fourth Secretary of Homeland Security from Dec. 23, 2013 - Jan. 20, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Raymond G. Girard, 34, of Rochester, NY, was charged by criminal complaint with being a felon in possession of ammunition, which carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal firearm laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas woman was sentenced to 33 months in prison for bank fraud.
