CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Sept. 14 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, Richard D. Westphal, issued the following news release on Sept. 13, 2023: A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced on Friday, September 8, 2023 to over six years in federal prison for threatening a federal official and committing interstate communications with intent to injure. According to public court documents, and evidence presented at sentencing, John Edward Miller, 42, was identified through a law enforcement in  more

DAVENPORT, Iowa, Sept. 14 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, Richard D. Westphal, issued the following news release: On September 6, 2023, a Clinton man was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. According to court documents, on the evening of November 24, 2021, Clinton Police stopped a truck for an equipment violation. David Jon Kinkaid, 41, w  more

DAVENPORT, Iowa, Sept. 14 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, Richard D. Westphal, issued the following news release on Sept. 13, 2023: A Davenport man was sentenced on Wednesday, September 6, 2023, to 120 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. According to public court documents and evidence, David Roy Bolinger, 49, was identified as a person distributing methamphetamine in the Davenport, Iowa, area during 2022. On April 14, 2022, law enforc  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 15 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, Richard D. Westphal, issued the following news release: On April 14, 2023, a Marshalltown woman, Elizabeth Andrade, 31, was sentenced to 120 months in prison, and on July 10, 2023, a Des Moines man, Adam Michael Browning, 38, was sentenced to 180 months in prison, for their respective roles in a methamphetamine conspiracy. Both were sentenced after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine; Brow  more

DAVENPORT, Iowa, Sept. 14 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, Richard D. Westphal, issued the following news release on Sept. 13, 2023: A Muscatine man was sentenced on Wednesday, September 6, 2023, to 168 months in prison for conspiracy to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. According to public court documents, on May 22, 2022, law enforcement observed Benjamin Stuart Gomes, 49, receive a package from another man at that man's re  more

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, Sept. 14 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, Richard D. Westphal, issued the following news release: On September 5, 2023, an Omaha man was sentenced to 132 months in federal prison for possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute and possessing a firearm as a prohibited person. According to public court documents, in March 2023, Russell Paul Sorbello, 59, was found in possession of methamphetamine and cocaine during a traffic stop. I  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Sept. 14 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release: Small nonfarm businesses in 42 Iowa counties and neighboring counties in Minnesota are now eligible to apply for low interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Director Jeffrey Lusk of SBA's Disaster Field Operations Center-West. These loans offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by drought in the   more