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PROVIDENCE, RI – A Windsor, CT, resident was arrested and ordered detained on September 26, 2023, after an indictment issued by a federal grand jury in Rhode Island charged him with engaging in the business of dealing in firearms without a license and conspiracy to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.

Farhad Nafeiy, 70, of Alamo, California, was charged with and pleaded guilty to a violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) yesterday in the Northern District of California. 

BOSTON – A Boston-area man pleaded guilty yesterday to illegally possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number while on supervised release from an earlier federal firearm charge.

Darron Smith appeared in federal court on an indictment charging him with assault with a dangerous weapon against a minor and assault resulting in serious bodily injury.

NEWARK, N.J. – A Union County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 180 months in prison for distributing multiple images depicting child sexual abuse while on supervised release for possessing and receiving child pornography.

The United States yesterday completed the sale of the Sayville Motor Lodge in Sayville, Long Island to a company that is partially owned by a principal of a neighboring business with longstanding ties to the community.  By Order entered on September 11, 2023, United States District Judge Joanna Seybert approved today’s sale of the Sayville Motor Lodge for the sum of $2 million, with the payment out of the sale’s proceeds to prior lenders on the property. 

On October 2, a man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for kidnapping and two felon in possession of a firearm charges.

U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Israel Rivera-Reyes, 48, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of production of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 292 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.  

A Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his sexual exploitation of an 11-year-old child victim in Minnesota.