WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Feb. 6, 2025: New York, N.Y. - Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that President Donald J. Trump has appointed Michael Martucci as the Regional Administrator for EPA Region 2. As Regional Administrator for EPA Region 2, Mike is overseeing the EPA's work to carry out important priorities of the administration's environmental agenda and protect the people of t  more

TAMPA, Florida, Feb. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida issued the following news release: U.S. District Judge Kathryn K. Mizelle has sentenced Wesley Berton Paul (48, Georgia) to 5 years and 11 months in federal prison for importing cocaine into the United States from Panama. Paul entered a guilty plea on August 19, 2024. According to court documents, in April of 2022, Paul and others in Panama and New York coordinated a shipment of 15 kilograms of cocain  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: * * * HSI Buffalo investigation lands sentencing of New York woman who participated in sex trafficking conspiracy BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A New York woman was sentenced for her role in a sex trafficking conspiracy that exploited two teenagers following an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Buffalo with local law enforcement partners. Jasmin Os  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release on Feb. 6, 2025: * * * Residence Located Steps Away from Elementary School was Used by Gang Members to Store Guns, Drugs, and Proceeds from Drug Trafficking * * * Danielle R. Sassoon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Bryan Miller, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and   more

PLATTSBURGH, New York, Feb. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York issued the following news release on Feb. 6, 2025: A Colombian man was extradited from Canada to the United States and arraigned today for charges arising from the drowning of a pregnant woman. The woman, a citizen of Mexico, died in December 2023 while trying to illegally enter the United States by wading across the Great Chazy River in Champlain, New York. United States Attorney Carla B. Fr  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release on Feb. 6, 2025: Danielle R. Sassoon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Frank A. Tarentino, the Special Agent in Charge for the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration ("DEA"); and Jessica S. Tisch, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department ("NYPD"), announced today the unsealing of a Superseding Indictment in   more

BROOKLYN, New York, Feb. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release on Feb. 6, 2025: Earlier today in federal court in Central Islip, three Bloods gang members, Dwayne Murray, Kendrick Seymore and Lavalle Wilson, were arraigned on new charges in a 46-count second superseding indictment before United States District Judge Joan M. Azrack. That indictment also charges an additional defendant, high-ranking Bloods gang member Sheim Tev  more