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News Tipoffs - Mississippi Editors Newsletter for Friday March 07, 2025 ( 4 items )  

Contracts for March 5, 2025
WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for March 5, 2025 NAVY Systems Planning and Analysis Inc., Alexandria, Virginia, is being awarded a $98,585,373 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification (P00002) to a previously awarded and announced contract (N00030247002) for support services for Nuclear Sea-Launched Cruise Missile Weapons Surety, Policy, and Compliance. Tasks to be performed include systems engineering and system integration, test/fl  more

Contracts for March 6, 2025
WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for March 6, 2025 ARMY Vertex Aerospace LLC, Madison, Mississippi (W900KK-25-D-0021); Lockheed Martin Corp., Orlando, Florida (W900KK-25-D-0022); Cubic Defense Applications Inc., San Diego, California (W900KK-25-D-0023); Ravenswood Solutions Inc.,* Fremont, California (W900KK-25-D-0024); Cole Engineering Services Inc., Orlando, Florida (W900KK-25-D-0025); Skiftech LLC,* Orlando, Florida (W900KK-  more

Former priest and convicted child molester sentenced for passport fraud, stripped of citizenship, and ordered deported
WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: * * * Former priest and convicted child molester sentenced for passport fraud, stripped of citizenship, and ordered deported ALEXANDRIA, La. - An investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has resulted in a one-year sentence for passport fraud for Jorge Antonio Velez-Lopez, a 69-year-old Columbian national, former archdiocese priest and convic  more

Plantersville Man Sentenced to More Than 10 Years In Prison for Drug Trafficking
OXFORD, Mississippi, March 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi issued the following news release: * * * Plantersville Man Sentenced to More Than 10 Years In Prison for Drug Trafficking Greenville, MS - A Plantersville man was sentenced yesterday to over 10 years in prison for distribution of methamphetamine. According to court documents, Alonzo Gilleyen, 48, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi to distrib  more