News from March 2019


Jury Convicts Syracuse Man For Threatening to Kill

News Release: Stephen Taubert Found Guilty of Making Telephonic Death Threats


Bookkeeper Pleads Guilty To Stealing More Than Half A Million Dollars from Metairie Architect

News Release: The indictment alleged that starting in 2007 and continuing through 2017 through a series of fraudulent activities SCHMIDT committed the offense. The indictment further alleged that she used two different schemes to purloin the funds, which were in the care, custody of and control of several federally insured banks in the New Orleans area.


DEA Task Force Investigation Dismantles Waterbury Drug Ring; 29 Charged

News Release: As alleged in court documents and statements made in court, the arrests stem from a joint investigation headed by the DEA New Haven Task Force and the Waterbury and Naugatuck Police Departments. The investigation, which began last year and has included the use of court-authorized wiretaps, physical surveillance ...


Leader Of Local Hip-Hop Group Is Sentenced To Nine Years For Bank And Wire Fraud Conspiracy And Aggravated Identity Theft Charges

News Release: U.S. Attorney Murray is joined in making todays announcement by David M. McGinnis, Inspector in Charge of the Charlotte Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service; Reginald DeMatteis, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Secret Service, Charlotte Field Office; and Chief Kerr Putney of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department.


Irving, Texas Man Sentenced To 5 Months For Conspiracy To Commit Wire Fraud

News Release: The Indictment alleged that in or about November, 2017, to on or about March 27, 2018, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma and elsewhere, the defendant knowingly and willfully conspired with others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, to transmit or cause to be transmitted by means of a wire communication, ...


Former Oroville Resident Sentenced to Home Detention for Making a False Bomb Threat

News Release: According to court documents, in August 2017, while Xiong was living in Oroville, Xiong mailed a letter to a company in Sunnyvale, informing the company that Xiong and others were going to bomb the location. The bomb threat was reported to the Sunnyvale Police Department who responded to the scene to ...



U.S. Citizen Led an International Counterfeit Currency Operation Headquartered in Uganda

News Release: Ryan Andrew Gustafson, aka Jack Farrel, aka WillyClock, age 31, pleaded guilty to three counts before Chief United States District Judge Mark Hornak.


Cynthiana Man Sentenced to 210 Months for Attempting to Entice Minors to Engage in Sexual Activity

News Release: Today, U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove sentenced Jeremy Wayne Martinez, 28, for using the Internet, with his cellular telephone, to knowingly attempt to persuade, induce, entice, and coerce a minor, to engage in sexual activity.



Brockton Man Sentenced for Fentanyl Distribution

News Release: Jorge Monteiro a/k/a Jay, 24, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns to 51 months in prison and three years of supervised release. In December 2018, Monteiro pleaded guilty to distributing fentanyl.