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Federal Tipoffs Involving North Carolina Newsletter for 2024-02-09 ( 6 items )  
Mobilization Support Brigade Soldiers graduate Basic Leader Course (10)
FORT BRAGG, North Carolina, Feb. 8 -- The U.S. Army Reserve Command issued the following news: FORT CAVAZOS, Texas - Three U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers assigned to the 646th Regional Support Group, and mobilized to Fort Cavazos, Texas, in support of the Mobilization Support Brigade mission, graduated from the U.S. Army's Basic Leader Course at the III Corps and Fort Cavazos Noncommissioned Officer Academy, Jan. 31. Sgts. Kyra Cure, Deployment Readiness Center (DRC) DD214 Huma more PR

N.C. U.S. Attorney: Former Chatham Housing Executive Sentenced (10)
GREENSBORO, North Carolina, Feb. 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina issued the following news release on Feb. 8, 2024: A Durham, North Carolina woman was sentenced today to 30 months in prison, after pleading guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud that victimized the Chatham County Housing Authority, announced United States Attorney Sandra J. Hairston of the Middle District of North Carolina (MDNC). JOANN JOHNSON DAVIS, age 65, was sentenced to a  more PR

Ohio U.S. Attorney: Brothers Each Sentenced to More Than 12 Years in Prison for Running Multi-State Cocaine Ring (10)
DAYTON, Ohio, Feb. 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio issued the following news release on Feb. 8, 2024: Two brothers were sentenced in federal court here today for leading a long-running drug-trafficking organization that sourced bulk amounts of narcotics from Los Angeles and Houston to Dayton and Charlotte, North Carolina. The government argued at sentencing that Roger Earl Walton, Jr., 44, of Concord, North Carolina, and Shawn Lee Walton, 50, of Charlotte more PR

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory User Project Leads to Key Molecular Culprit Active in COVID-19 (10)
RICHLAND, Washington, Feb. 8 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * "Zombie" peptide provokes immune storm in patients * * * A new finding that helps explain the severe and long-lasting effects of COVID-19 has its roots in a project conducted at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory during the early stages of the pandemic. Back in 2020, Matthew Wolfgang of the University of North Carolina at Chapel more PR

U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina: Final Defendant Sentenced in Heroin Conspiracy After 8 Years on the Run (10)
COLUMBIA, South Carolina, Feb. 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina issued the following news release: Corey Xavier Baldwin, 56, of Concord, North Carolina, was sentenced to 53 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute heroin. Evidence presented to the court showed that Baldwin was one of 10 defendants charged in April 2014, following a drug trafficking investigation in the Columbia are more PR

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION ANNOUNCES $417 MILLION LOAN TO IMPROVE TRAFFIC AROUND RALEIGH (10)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation issued the following news release: The "Complete 540 Phase 2" Project Finalizes Last Section of Triangle Expressway Loop WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced that its Build America Bureau has approved a loan for up to $417.2 million for the North Carolina Turnpike Authority (NCTA) for Phase 2 of the Complete 540 Project around the greater Raleigh area. The project extends the Triangle Expressway 10.8 mil more PR