News published on Federal Newswire in March 2019

News from March 2019


Informational: Federal Court Arraignments

News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned this week before U.S. Magistrate judges and indictments handed down by the Grand Jury were unsealed. Indictments are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.


California Man, Courier for Mexico-based Drug Trafficking Organization, Sentenced to Imprisonment for Fourteen Years

News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on March 1, 2019, United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced John F. Haller III to a term of imprisonment of 168 months, to be served in the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Haller, 51, of Riverside, California, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.


News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that the United States reached a $260,000 civil settlement with HNTB, Inc. concerning HNTB's alleged improper billing under a contract to provide catenary services (i.e., overhead electrical wires) with Amtrak.


News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Prince Edosa, age 54, formerly of Brooklyn, NY, and a dual citizen of both Nigeria and the United States, was sentenced on Feb. 27, 2019, by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner to 63 months’ imprisonment for his role in international consumer fraud schemes.


Alabama Man Pretending to be College Softball Coach Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Attempting to Produce Child Pornography

News Release: Jason Ford, a former teaching assistant and travel softball coach, was sentenced to 15 years in prison today after previously pleading guilty to attempting to produce child pornography.


News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Today, Zaachila Isabel Orozco-McCormick, Natalie Renee Hoffman, Oona Meagan Holcomb, and Madeline Abbe Huse, volunteers with No More Deaths, were sentenced to 15 months of unsupervised probation, fined $250.00 each, and banned from the refuge for the duration of their probation. The defendants...


Jury finds Oregon man guilty of cyberstalking and making threats for numerous threats he made to his former co-workers and law enforcement officials

News Release: A jury found an Oregon man guilty of cyberstalking and making threats related to numerous threats he made to his former co-workers and law enforcement officials.


Activity in the United States Attorney's Office

News Release: Sentences. Chief Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl sentenced CHARLES BERNARD OWENS, a/k/a Christopher Bernard Mone, a/k/a Christopher Bernard Jackson, a/k/a Christopher Jackson, 36, of San Bernardino, California on Feb. 14, 2019 for transportation in interstate commerce for the purposes...


Dominican National Sentenced For Federal Drug Conspiracy

News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester for his role in a cocaine conspiracy.


News Release: Memphis, TN -A convicted felon has been found guilty by a federal jury for making false statements on federal background check form ATF 4473 and for illegally possessing firearms. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the guilty verdict today.


News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that DAVID HANSON, age 61, from Abita Springs, Louisiana, and CLIFFORD “SKIP" KEEN, age 50, from Covington, Louisiana, pleaded guilty Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019 before United States District Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle to conspiracy to commit honest...


Crew Who Allegedly Robbed Eight Inland Empire AutoZone Stores Indicted on Federal Conspiracy, Robbery and Firearms Charges

News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A federal grand jury today returned a 13-count indictment today against two men and a woman from Moreno Valley who allegedly committed at least eight armed robberies at AutoZone stores in the Inland Empire and made off with more than $11,000 in cash.


News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of DENNIS EDWARD BRESNAHAN, 55, a former United States Probation Officer, to two counts of making false statements to the FBI. BRESNAHAN, who was indicted on Aug. 15, 2018, entered his guilty plea earlier today before Judge Robert W. Pratt in U.S. District Court in Saint Paul, Minnesota.


Informational: Federal Court arraignments

News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned this week before U.S. Magistrate judges and indictments handed down by the Grand Jury were unsealed. Indictments are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.


Danville Man Convicted in Spree of Seven Armed Robberies Throughout Virginia

News Release: Prosecution was part of the Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative to Reduce Crime in the Western District of Virginia.


New York Man Sentenced To 63 Months’ Imprisonment For $1.4 Million Dollar International Fraud Scheme

News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Prince Edosa, age 54, formerly of Brooklyn, NY, and a dual citizen of both Nigeria and the United States, was sentenced on Feb. 27, 2019, by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner to 63 months’ imprisonment for his role in international consumer fraud schemes.


Maryland Gang Member Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Federal Racketeering, Drug Conspiracy and Gun Charges

News Release: Maryland Gang Member Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Federal Racketeering, Drug Conspiracy and Gun Charges.


WISCONSIN MAN SENTENCED FOR THREATENING JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER

News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger has announced Chadwick Grubbs, 33 was sentenced today by United States District Judge Pamela Pepper to 36 months in prison for charges related to threatening letters he wrote on three separate dates in May 2018 to the Harry and Rose Samson Family Jewish Community...


News Release: Blas Rodriguez-Avila and Hector Naal-Huchin Affiliated with the Mexican Drug Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG).


News Release: FILLMORE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Fillmore Field Office and the Raptor Inventory Nest Survey (RINS) are seeking volunteers to collect and manage data regarding the nesting ecology of eagles, falcons, hawks, ospreys, and owls. Interested volunteers must contact RINS and attend a training on March 12 from 12-4 p.m. at the BLM Fillmore Field Office located at: 95 East 500 North, Fillmore, UT 84631.