WATERBURY, Connecticut, March 14 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release on March 13, 2023: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in New Haven has found RAMON OQUENDO, also known as "Mimo," 46, of Waterbury, guilty of narcotics trafficking and firearm possession offenses. The trial before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall began on Febru  more

NEW BRITAIN, Connecticut, March 14 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release on March 13, 2023: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ROBERTO MERCEDES-RODRIGUEZ, 43, of New Britain, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 78 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for fentanyl distrib  more

BRISTOL, Connecticut, March 16 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: Philips North America LLC. has agreed to pay $706,175 plus interest to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reimburse costs of removing hazardous contamination from the former Sessions Clock Site in Bristol, Conn. "This case demonstrates that EPA takes its 'polluter pays' principle seriously and performs site cleanups as quickly as we can, while ensuring we recover costs whenev  more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation issued the following news release on March 12, 2023: Signature Bank, New York, NY, was closed today by the New York State Department of Financial Services, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver. To protect depositors, the FDIC transferred all the deposits and substantially all of the assets of Signature Bank to Signature Bridge Bank, N.A., a full-service bank that will be operated by the FDI  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the following news brief: * * * Employer, equipment operator also face first-degree reckless endangerment * * * Incident: Fatal trench collapse in Vernon, Connecticut Date: July 22, 2022 Background: Inspectors with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration, special agents with the department's Office of Inspector General, and detectives with the Town   more

ATLANTA, Georgia, March 16 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release: The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is reminding small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture, and most private nonprofit organizations that April 17 is the filing deadline for federal working capital loans in parts of Rhode Island and adjacent states for drought that began Aug. 9, 2022. Low-interest disaster   more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 15 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Marshals Service issued the following news release: The U.S. Marshals in Texas on Monday arrested a man wanted in Connecticut on child sex charges dating back to 2008. Thomas Marcel failed to appear Oct. 12, 2012, before a Connecticut judge following his arrest in 2008 by Connecticut State Police Troop E on two counts of enticing a minor by computer, illegal possession of child pornography, promoting a minor in an obscen  more