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Federal Tipoffs Involving Oklahoma Newsletter for Thursday May 02, 2024 ( 6 items )  

DEA-St. Louis: Mexican National Pleads Guilty to Cocaine Conspiracy After Officers Seize $1 Million Worth of Cocaine in I-70 Traffic Stop
KANSAS CITY, Missouri, May 2 -- The U.S. Justice Department Drug Enforcement Administration St. Louis Division issued the following news release: An Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, man has pleaded guilty to his role in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine after law enforcement officers seized more than $1 million worth of cocaine from a rental truck that was stopped on Interstate 70 in Lafayette County, Mo. Luis Gerardo Nieto-Acosta, 37, a citizen of Mexico, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge St  more

Deadline Approaching in Oklahoma for SBA Working Capital Loans Due to Drought
SACRAMENTO, California, May 1 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release on April 29, 2024: Francisco Sanchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at the Small Business Administration, today reminded small nonfarm businesses in eight Oklahoma counties and neighboring counties in Arkansas and Texas of the May 28, 2024, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury. These low interest loans are to offs  more

Deadline Approaching in Texas for SBA Working Capital Loans Due to Drought
SACRAMENTO, California, May 1 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release on April 29, 2024: Francisco Sanchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at the Small Business Administration, today reminded small nonfarm businesses in 18 Texas counties, a neighboring parish in Louisiana and neighboring counties in Oklahoma of the May 28, 2024, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury. These low-interes  more

President Biden Approves Oklahoma Disaster Declaration
WASHINGTON, May 1 -- The White House issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: Today, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. declared that a major disaster exists in the State of Oklahoma and ordered Federal aid to supplement State, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe storms, straight-line winds, tornadoes, and flooding beginning on April 25, 2024, and continuing. The President's action makes Federal funding available to affected individuals in the counties of  more

SBA Stands Ready to Assist Oklahoma Businesses and Residents Affected by the Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes and Flooding
SACRAMENTO, California, May 2 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on May 1, 2024: Low-interest federal disaster loans are now available to Oklahoma businesses and residents as a result of President Biden's major disaster declaration, U.S. Small Business Administration's Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzmanannounced. The declaration covers Hughes, Love and Murray counties as a result of the severe storms, straight line winds,   more

U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri: Mexican National Pleads Guilty to Cocaine Conspiracy After Officers Seize $1M Worth of Cocaine in I-70 Traffic Stop
KANSAS CITY, Missouri, May 2 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri issued the following news release on May 1, 2024: An Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, man has pleaded guilty to his role in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine after law enforcement officers seized more than $1 million worth of cocaine from a rental truck that was stopped on Interstate 70 in Lafayette County, Mo. Luis Gerardo Nieto-Acosta, 37, a citizen of Mexico, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Jud  more