WASHINGTON, March 12 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release on March 11, 2024: BOSTON -- Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston arrested an unlawfully present Nigerian citizen convicted of indecent solicitation of a Rhode Island child. Deportation officers with ERO Boston apprehended the 45-year-old Nigerian sex offender Feb.15 in Rumford, Rhode Island. The apprehension was one of the arrests ERO Boston made   more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 1:23-cv-MSM-PAS; D.R.I. filed March 13, 2023) involving Evoqua Water Technologies Corp. and Imran Parekh: * * * SEC Obtains Final Judgment Against Defendant Imran Parekh for Accounting Violations * * * On March 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island entered a final judgment against Evoqua Water Technologies Corp.'s former division-level finance director, Imr  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release on March 13, 2024: A Randolph man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a drug trafficking organization (DTO) that shipped dozens of parcels containing kilograms of cocaine from Puerto Rico to various addresses throughout Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Patrick Rinvil, 37, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge F.  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release on March 13, 2024: A Providence, R.I. man pleaded guilty yesterday to his role in a drug trafficking organization (DTO) that distributed fentanyl throughout Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Rafael Cesar Cabreja Jimenez, 28, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl and one count of pos  more

NEWPORT, Rhode Island, March 15 -- The Naval War College issued the following news: The U.S. Naval War College (NWC) honored 272 students from its College of Distance Education (CDE) in a virtual graduation ceremony, March 14. Students graduated from CDE's online Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) intermediate-level program and included officers from the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and various U.S. civilian government agencies. "Your charge now is to use the education you h  more