All USAO Press Releases

United States Attorney Ronald C. Gathe, Jr., announced that a Bill of Information was filed charging James S. Burland, age 69, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with possession of child pornography.

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – LEONEL GONZALEZ (“GONZALEZ”), age 41, a resident of Houston, Texas, was sentenced by United States District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo to one hundred twenty months imprisonment, five years of supervised release, and a $100.00 mandatory special assessment fee after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, five hundred (500) grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(A) and 846, announced U.S

The Justice Department will monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws in Cuyahoga and Portage Counties for the Nov. 5 general election. 

PROVIDENCE, RI – A Cranston man, previously convicted in federal court and incarcerated for more than six years for robbing nine banks in 2012, admitted to a federal judge on Wednesday that he participated in the robbery of an East Providence bank on New Year’s Eve in December 2019, a bank he had previously robbed during his 2012 spree, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.

Rachel Olivia Markum and Robert Franklin Markum Jr. were sentenced to 15 and 27 months in federal prison, respectively, for evading taxes during the 2016 calendar year.

A Fort Worth man on a deferred adjudication for dealing the heroin that killed a 21-year-old in 2013 has been charged with two federal gun crimes. 

Sheldon Carlton Daye pleaded guilty in federal court to two counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection with a fatal drunk driving crash that occurred on the Navajo Nation reservation in 2022.

BOSTON – Nine men have been arrested for fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine trafficking.