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News Release: Defendant Shouted at Officers and Used Flagpole to Assault Police Sergeant.


Monessen Man Indicted on Drug and Gun Charges

News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Monessen, PA, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of federal narcotic and firearm violations, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


News Release: Davenport, IA - A Davenport man, Juan Dontae Shelton, age 39, was sentenced on Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, to 330 months in federal prison for production of child pornography, possession of child pornography, and felon in possession of a firearm. Shelton was found guilty of these offenses following jury trials on August 8th and August 15th, 2022. Following his prison term, Shelton was ordered to serve a seven-year term of supervised release.


News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A St. Charles, Missouri, couple pleaded guilty today after unlawfully obtaining $26,917 in unemployment benefits provided for by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program.


News Release: Davenport, IA - A Davenport man, Keith Deshon Euring, Sr. (also known as “Sweat"), age 54, was sentenced on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, to 235 months in federal prison for sex trafficking of a minor and distribution of marijuana to a person under age 21. Euring was found guilty of these offenses following a jury trial in September 2022. Following his prison term, Euring was ordered to serve a five-year term of supervised release.


Virginia Beach Man Sentenced for Possessing Unregistered Silencers

News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach man was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for unlawfully possessing unregistered firearm silencers.


News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Denise Brown was sentenced yesterday to 144 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl and 60 months for submitting a false claim to the Small Business Administration (SBA), to run concurrently. Brown was also ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution to the SBA. U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika pronounced the sentence.



Burlington Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Drug Trafficking

News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - A Burlington man was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in federal prison for drug trafficking.


News Release: On Jan. 19, 2023, the United States filed a civil complaint in federal court in Brooklyn against two firearm companies, and two individuals associated with these companies (collectively, “Defendants"), alleging that Defendants have conspired to defraud the United States and consumers, and have engaged...


News Release: MIAMI - A South Florida man pled guilty in federal court today to conspiring to buy and sell more than 2.6 million Medicare beneficiary identification numbers, along with other personal identifiers.


Raleigh County Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Drug Crime

News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - David Jeffrey Edwards, 46, of Daniels, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl.


Former Suffolk County Legislator and Co-Conspirator Convicted of Defrauding Mortgage Lender Out of More Than a Quarter of a Million Dollars

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the convictions of GEORGE GULDI, a former Suffolk County legislator and disbarred attorney, and VICTORIA DAVIDSON for defrauding Ditech Financial LLC, a mortgage lender, out of more than a quarter of a million dollars. The jury convicted GULDI and DAVIDSON of all counts following an approximately two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein.


News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A St. Joseph, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.


Rochester Man Sentenced to 70 Months for Distributing Fentanyl

News Release: CONCORD - Justin Smith, 34, of Rochester was sentenced today to 70 months in federal prison for one count of distributing 40 grams and more of fentanyl, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced.


News Release: BOSTON - A repeat convicted felon has been charged by a federal grand jury in a superseding indictment on firearm and drug offenses.


Five Members and Associates of White Supremacist Gang Sentenced to Life in Prison for Racketeering, Kidnapping, and Murder

News Release: ANCHORAGE, ALASKA - Filthy Fuhrer, formerly Timothy Lobdell, 46; Roy Naughton, aka Thumper, 44; Glen Baldwin, aka Glen Dog, 41; Colter O’Dell, 30; and Craig King, aka Oakie, 57, were sentenced this week in Alaska to life in prison without the possibility of parole. All five defendants were convicted...


Two Sentenced in Heroin and Fentanyl Trafficking Conspiracy

News Release: BOSTON - Two Worcester residents have been sentenced for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy involving fentanyl and heroin.


News Release: An Ohio man was arraigned today on criminal charges related to his alleged false statements to U.S. immigration and law enforcement officials about his military service and involvement in a politically and ethnically-motivated attack on civilians in Croatia during the civil war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.


Two Men Plead Guilty to Five-Hour Armed Robbery Spree

News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Chesapeake and a Suffolk man pleaded guilty today and earlier this week to their roles in a series of armed robberies of 7-Eleven establishments in the Cities of Newport News, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach.