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Federal Tipoffs Involving Utah Newsletter for Sunday October 22, 2023 ( 13 items )  

DEA-Rocky Mountain Division: First Regional Family Summit on Fentanyl Held in Utah
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 20 -- The U.S. Justice Department's Drug Enforcement Administration's Rocky Mountain Division issued the following news release on Oct. 19, 2023: On October 19, the Drug Enforcement Administration's Rocky Mountain Field Division, in partnership with the State of Utah's Office of the Attorney General and with the support of the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Utah, hosted a Family Summit for those who have lost a loved one to a fentanyl poisoning or  more

Deadline Approaching in Arizona for SBA Working Capital Loans Due to Drought
SACRAMENTO, California, Oct. 18 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on Oct. 17, 2023: Director Jeffrey Lusk of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Disaster Field Operations Center-West today reminded small nonfarm businesses in six Arizona counties and neighboring counties in California, Nevada and Utah of the Nov. 17 deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury. These low-interest loans are to off  more

Deadline Approaching in Idaho for SBA Working Capital Loans Due to Drought
SACRAMENTO, California, Oct. 18 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on Oct. 17, 2023: Director Jeffrey Lusk of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Disaster Field Operations Center-West today reminded small nonfarm businesses in 18 Idaho counties and neighboring counties in Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Utah of the Nov. 17 deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury. These low-interest loans are to o  more

Deadline Approaching in Nevada for SBA Working Capital Loans Due to Drought
SACRAMENTO, California, Oct. 18 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on Oct. 17, 2023: Director Jeffrey Lusk of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Disaster Field Operations Center-West today reminded small nonfarm businesses in 17 Nevada counties and neighboring counties in Arizona, California, Idaho, Oregon and Utah of the Nov. 17 deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury. These low-interest lo  more

Deadline Approaching in New Mexico for SBA Working Capital Loans Due to Drought
SACRAMENTO, California, Oct. 18 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on Oct. 17, 2023: Director Jeffrey Lusk of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Disaster Field Operations Center-West today reminded small nonfarm businesses in 28 New Mexico counties and neighboring counties in Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah of the Nov. 17, 2023, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury. These low-  more

Deadline Approaching in Wyoming for SBA Working Capital Loans Due to Drought
SACRAMENTO, California, Oct. 18 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on Oct. 17, 2023: Director Jeffrey Lusk of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Disaster Field Operations Center-West today reminded small nonfarm businesses in 15 Wyoming counties and neighboring counties in Colorado, Idaho and Utah of the Nov. 17 deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury. These low-interest loans are to offset   more

First Regional Family Summit on Fentanyl Held in Utah
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: SALT LAKE CITY - On October 19, the Drug Enforcement Administration's Rocky Mountain Field Division, in partnership with the State of Utah's Office of the Attorney General and with the support of the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Utah, hosted a Family Summit for those who have lost a loved one to a fentanyl poisoning or  more

ICE: ERO Salt Lake City Removes Honduran National Wanted for Domestic Violence
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Salt Lake City removed an unlawfully present foreign fugitive Oct. 5 wanted for domestic violence by law enforcement authorities in his home country of Honduras. Melvin Omar Garcia-Lopez, 39, flew from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada, and arrived in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, via chartered a  more

Mont. U.S. Attorney: Utah Man Admits Defrauding Montana Employer
BILLINGS, Montana, Oct. 17 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana, Jesse Laslovich, issued the following news release on Oct. 16, 2023: A Utah man accused of embezzling more than $700,000 from a Montana company admitted to charges today, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said. Thomas Lynn Syddall, 50, of American Fork, Utah, who worked for a company owned by Anderson ZurMuehlen & Co., pleaded guilty to wire fraud and to money laundering-concealment as charged in an indictment. Syddall fa  more

Showing up to win at 2023 Army Reserve Best Squad Competition
FORT BRAGG, North Carolina, Oct. 20 -- The U.S. Army Reserve Command issued the following news: SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - Sgt. James Ranstead competed as a junior enlisted Soldier in the 2018 USARC Best Warrior Competition but didn't win, so he came back this year with a chip on his shoulder. "I went to school, I deployed, and then I finally got the opportunity to [compete] again. [I came with the mindset] that if I'm going, I'm gonna win the whole thing. Why do it if you're n  more

Utah U.S. Attorney: Accused Drug Dealers Arrested and Prosecuted for Illegal Drug Possession and Distribution Charges, 14,000 Fentanyl Pills Seized
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 19 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah, Trina A. Higgins, issued the following news release on Oct. 18, 2023: A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned an indictment today that charges two foreign nationals for illicit drug possession, including fentanyl, with intent to distribute. According to court documents, Juan Robles-Ramos, 22, of Clearfield, Utah, and Pedro De Jesus Figueroa-Roman, 19, of Clearfield, knowingly possessed narcotics with the inte  more

Utah U.S. Attorney: Over $1M Worth of Dinosaur Bones Allegedly Stolen From Utah, Shipped to China for Profit
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 20 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah, Trina A. Higgins, issued the following news release: A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned a 13-count indictment charging four people for allegedly purchasing and selling over $1M in paleontological resources. The dollar amount represents 150,000 pounds of paleontological resources, including dinosaur bones, illegally removed from federal and state lands in southeastern Utah. According to court documents, Vi  more

Utah U.S. Attorney: Two California Men Accused of Supplying Meth From Mexico to Utah
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 19 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah, Trina A. Higgins, issued the following news release on Oct. 18, 2023: A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned an indictment today charging two men from Southern California for allegedly possessing with the intent of distributing methamphetamine in Utah. According to court documents, on October 7, 2023, Oscar Soto-Covarrubias, Sr., 73, of San Diego, California, and Oscar Soto Jr., 26, of Fontana, California, w  more