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News Release: Miller faces a mandatory minimum of 25 years’ imprisonment.


Man Sentenced To Prison For Threatening Emergency Dispatch

News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Mark Totten today announced that Jonathan Joshua Munafo, 35, most recently of Winter Park, Florida, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff to 24 months in prison and three years’ supervised release for threatening emergency dispatch personnel and tying up an emergency phone line for three hours.


Couple Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Steal Government Property

News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Irvis Jorge, age 44, and Pamela Febo, age 38, of Keansburg, New Jersey, each pled guilty today to conspiring to steal government property. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman; Janeen DiGuiseppi, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of...


New Jersey Man Sentenced to Prison for Fraud Scheme

News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A New Jersey resident has been sentenced in federal court to 18 months on his conviction of fraud conspiracy, plus three years supervised release, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


Canal Winchester man sentenced to 5 years in prison for romance scam money laundering conspiracy

News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Canal Winchester man who was found guilty of 35 counts of money laundering crimes following a jury trial in May was sentenced today in federal court to 60 months in prison.


Former Memphis Police Officer Sentenced to 12 Years for Criminal Civil Rights Violations

News Release: Memphis, TN - A federal judge has sentenced a former Memphis Police Officer to 12 years in federal.


News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Steven Bernard Parker, Jr., of Baltimore, Maryland, has admitted to selling a large amount of fentanyl, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.


News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Tevin OBrian Oliver (29, Homestead), Jameal Kaia Phillip (30, Trinidad and Tobago), and Edward Soloman King III (31, Tampa) with conspiracy to smuggle goods from the United States. If convicted, each faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison.


Anchorage Man Sentenced to Nine Years for Stealing 22 Guns

News Release: Defendants fired weapons during police chase and used stolen vehicle in commission of crimes.


News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - Anthony Jackson, 32, of Wilmington, was sentenced to 84 months in prison for distribution of a quantity of methamphetamine. Jackson was released from North Carolina State prison in January 2021 after serving an approximately 12-year sentence for Second Degree Murder. According to the...


Danville Woman Sentenced For Embezzling More Than $66,000 From Saint Anselm College

News Release: CONCORD - Renee Crawford, 35, of Danville was sentenced to 2 years of probation with six months of home confinement and ordered to pay full restitution for embezzling $66,114.02 from Saint Anselm College, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today.


Career Cocaine Trafficker Sentenced in Multi-State Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

News Release: BOSTON - A Vermont man with two prior federal convictions for drug conspiracy was sentenced on Oct. 18, 2022 for his role in a drug trafficking organization.


News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Clearfield, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal firearms and narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


Mystic Restaurant Owner Sentenced for Federal Tax Offense

News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that YI DI LIN, also known as “Johnny Lin," 49, of Mystic, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to three years of probation, and was ordered to pay restitution of more than $92,000 and a $5,500 fine, for a federal a federal tax offense.


Former police officer fined $10,000 for assault on customer of St. Louis County DMV

News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Matthews T. Schelp on Wednesday fined a former Northwoods, Missouri police officer $10,000 for assaulting a patron of a driver license office in Florissant.


News Release: Defendant Joined in Attack on Officers in Lower West Terrace Area, Dragged Officer Into the Mob.


Kentucky Man Pleads Guilty To Federal Gun Charge

News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Robert T. Scott, 29, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, pleaded guilty to transferring a firearm to an out-of-state resident, before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.


Mercer County Man Under Indictment on Drug Charges Now Faces Firearms Law Violation

News Release: PITTSBURGH - Michael Love was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for receiving and transporting a firearm while under felony indictment, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


Albany Man Sentenced to 18 Months for Obstruction of Justice

News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Michael P. Fish, age 27, of Albany, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for obstruction of justice.


Canterbury Man Sentenced to Prison for Illegally Possessing Machinegun and Other Firearms

News Release: CANTERBURY, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANDRES VASQUEZ, 35, of Canterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. Circuit Judge Sarah A.L. Merriam in Bridgeport to nine months of imprisonment, followed by 18 months of supervised release, for illegally possessing a machinegun and other firearms.