All USAO Press Releases

Judge James K. Bredar yesterday sentenced Elias Nick Costianes, age 44, formerly of Nottingham, Maryland, to 24 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, after Costianes’s plea of guilty to possession of firearms and ammunition by an unlawful user of any controlled substance. 

Tampa, FL – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces today that the United States has obtained more than $370 million in judgments against a Kentucky businessman and his companies for a laboratory testing scheme that targeted the Medicare program. 

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – On August 18, 2023, BLAIR TAYLOR, a/k/a “Blood” a New Orleans resident, was charged in a recently unsealed two-count indictment.  Both Counts 1 and 2, charged TAYLOR with causing a death through the use of a firearm, pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section 924(j)(1), announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.  TAYLOR was arrested on Wednesday, September 20, 2023, in Norwich, Connecticut. 

An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Abel Mora, a member of the Trinitarios, a violent street gang, with being a convicted felon in possession of ammunition related to two separate shootings

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that PABLO RENATO RODRIGUEZ, the co-founder of AirBit Club with GUTEMBERG DOS SANTOS, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for orchestrating the massive global AirBit Club pyramid scheme.  

DAVENPORT, IA – A Le Claire man was sentenced on September 20, 2023, to ten years in federal prison for distribution and receipt of child pornography.

The New Orleans FBI Field Office, the Civil Rights Division, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Louisiana have opened a federal investigation into the Baton Rouge Police Department and allegations that members of the department may have abused their authority.

A federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment last week charging an Anchorage man with intentionally lighting an apartment on fire.