BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sept. 2 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Joshua S. Levy, issued the following news release on Sept. 1, 2023: A Boston man pleaded guilty yesterday to his involvement in a sophisticated international money laundering and drug trafficking organization. Mariano Santana, 57, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering. U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley scheduled sentencing for Nov. 30, 2023. In May 2023, Santana was among 12 individu  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Sept. 2 -- The U.S. Justice Department's Drug Enforcement Administration's San Francisco Division issued the following news release on Aug. 31, 2023: A federal grand jury returned a seven-count indictment today against three defendants, charging them with drug trafficking offenses, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Brian M. Clark announced. Jiovanni Eleazar Paco, 25, of Modesto; Carlos Daniel Gastelum Bustamante  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Sept. 2 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release on Sept. 1, 2023: Director Jeffrey Lusk of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Disaster Field Operations Center-West today reminded private nonprofit organizations in the Havasupai Tribe of the Oct. 2, 2023, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury caused by flooding that occurred Oct. 1 - 2, 2022. Private nonprofits that provide essential services of a gove  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency issued the following news release on Sept. 1, 2023: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Pvt. Daniel Moniz, 19, of Hayward, California, killed during World War II, was accounted for May 5, 2023. In November 1944, Moniz was assigned to Medical Detachment, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. His unit was engaged in battle with German forces near Hurtgen, Germany,  more

NAVAL AIR STATION NORTH ISLAND, California, Sept. 2 -- The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command issued the following news release: STEM, which is an integration of four disciplines - science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, encourages critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration in the educational and professional world. Its objective is to provide innovative solutions to real-world problems and it plays a crucial role in the advancement of medicine, environmental sustainability, techno  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Sept. 2 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: On Sept. 1, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Los Angeles announced the arrest of 38 noncitizens during a national operation that ran from Aug. 4-25. Officers focused enforcement efforts against priority removable fugitive noncitizens -- specifically, those identified as having crimi  more

CORONA, New Mexico, Sept. 2 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release on Sept. 1, 2023: Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Senior Advisor to the President John Podesta joined federal, state and community leaders today to celebrate the groundbreaking of the SunZia Transmission Project. When completed, this project will transport up to 4,500 megawatts of primarily renewable energy from New Mexico to markets in Arizona and California, furthering the Biden-Harr  more

LIVERMORE, California, Sept. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Engineering leadership welcomed the Lab's newest machinist apprentices during a registration ceremony on Aug. 17. With program leaders looking on, the three new apprentices - Josh Kates, Daniel Hurtado and Hector Preciado - signed their requisite paperwork committing them to the Lab's four-year Machinist Apprenticeshi  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Sept. 1 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for Central District of California issued the following news release: The United States today filed a complaint alleging that the Bobcat Fire - one of the largest wildfires ever in Los Angeles County - was caused by the failure of Southern California Edison and its tree maintenance contractor to properly maintain trees that came into contact with power lines and caused the 2020 blaze. The lawsuit filed in United States Distric  more

SAN DIEGO, California, Sept. 1 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California issued the following news release: Edwin Cuadrado, Jr., a United States Postal Service (USPS) employee, was arrested and charged in a federal criminal complaint with stabbing a supervisor on August 25 at a mail facility in Carmel Mountain Ranch. At a hearing today in federal court, U.S. Magistrate Judge William V. Gallo ordered Cuadrado held without bond after the government argued he is a  more