FRESNO, California, Aug. 22 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California, Phillip A. Talbert, issued the following news release on Aug. 21, 2023: David Agustus McGowan, 63, of Kansas City, Missouri, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana that was shipped from Fresno to Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, in November 2018, McGowan's co-defendants Patrick Maldonad  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Aug. 22 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued the following news release on Aug. 21, 2023: U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Monday sentenced a man from Ste. Genevieve County to 34 months in prison for defrauding both Home Depot and Missouri's unemployment insurance program. Arthur Grass, 36, was also ordered to repay $207,000. Grass filed false unemployment claims for about 10 people beginning in May of 2020, claiming that t  more