News published on Federal Newswire in May 2014

News from May 2014


News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On May 12, 2014, Charles Louis Linville, age 71, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced to 36 months of imprisonment for possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. United States District Judge John A. Jarvey also sentenced Linville to a five-year term of supervised release, following his term of imprisonment.


Leader Of Bryan Drug Distribution Ring Receives 212 Months

News Release: HOUSTON - Donal Monta Amerson, 37, of Missouri City, has been ordered to federal prison for nearly 18 years for operating a cocaine and marijuana distribution organization in Bryan, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.


News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Jorden Barraco, age 34, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.


FBI Agents Honored At U.S. Attorney Awards

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News Release: SEARCH UNDERWAY FOR MISSING HENDERSON MAN.


News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Anthony Palomino-Coronado, age 21, of Laurel, Maryland, today to 30 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for sexual abuse of a minor to produce child pornography. Judge Titus ordered that upon his release from prison...


News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that 10th Street Gang member Brandon Bobbitt, 25, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO), was sentenced to 210 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.


News Release: ATLANTA - Corey Charles Plunkett has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for distributing a pornographic image of his one-year-old daughter to an undercover law enforcement officer.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Representative Eliot L. Engel today made the following statement regarding the referendum held on May 11 by separatists in several cities in eastern Ukraine...


News Release: TOPEKAS, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced Monday to five years in federal prison on a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.


Missouri Man Sentenced To 30 Years For Child Sexual Exploitation

News Release: A man who sexually exploited a child was sentenced May 9, 2014, to 30 years in federal prison.


News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - In three separate cases, defendants convicted of carrying out mortgage fraud schemes in Fresno and Bakersfield were sentenced to prison today, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.


New London Man Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Trafficking Heroin

News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MIGUEL MORALES, also known as “Neow," 54, of New London, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his role for trafficking heroin.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Ivy Fauntroy, 34, a former employee of United Cerebral Palsy of Washington & Northern Virginia, a District of Columbia day services provider for individuals with developmental disabilities, has been found guilty and been sentenced for criminal abuse of a vulnerable person in her care, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen, Jr. and District of Columbia Inspector General Charles J. Willoughby announced today.


News Release: Five subjects sentenced in Greensboro on federal robbery and firearm offenses.


Men Convicted In Murder Of Coast Guard Officer Sentenced To Prison; Pilot Of Drug Smuggling Boat Receives Life Without Parole

News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two Mexican nationals who were found guilty of federal charges stemming from an incident in which a Coast Guard officer was killed when his vessel was rammed by a “panga" boat were sentenced today.


News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee issued this statement on yesterday’s illegal referendum in Ukraine:


News Release: BOSTON - The former Executive Director of Chelsea Housing Authority (CHA) pleaded guilty today for rigging the inspection process for federally-funded housing units at the CHA.


Nashville Man Sentenced To 135 Months For Marijuana Conspiracy

News Release: Joshua Lee Alan Eichel, 32, of Nashville, Tenn., was sentenced on May 8, 2014, to 135 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Kevin H. Sharp, for conspiring to possess and distribute 1,000 kilograms of marijuana, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. The prison term will be followed by five years of supervised release.


News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced Monday to five years in federal prison on a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.