Iowa sex offender sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for enticing high school students

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – Under is a roundup of sentences handed down this week in federal courts in Nebraska and Iowa, in accordance with updates from the U.S. Lawyer’s places of work.

Performing U.S. Lawyer Steven Russell, whose workplace is in Omaha, reminds the general public that there isn’t any parole within the federal system.

Quinn Matthew Sorensen, 23, of Missouri Valley, was sentenced on Tuesday in federal courtroom in Iowa to 14 years in jail after pleading responsible to transporting, coercing, and engaging a minor. He can even be required to sever 12 years of supervised launch after serving his jail sentence and might be required to register as a intercourse offender. In accordance with a launch from the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace of the Southern District of Iowa, Sorensen was found to be having a relationship with a Millard West Excessive College freshman after college students informed a college useful resource officer there. Investigators found that he was corresponding with a number of women at the highschool by way of textual content and Snapchat messages, encouraging highschool freshmen up to now him and have interaction in sexual acts. He additionally offered them with alcohol and marijuana. In a single occasion, Sorensen picked up a scholar in Omaha and transported her to his condo in Missouri Valley.

Jose Ramon Cisneros Perez, 22, was sentenced this week in federal courtroom in Omaha for receipt and tried receipt of kid pornography. Decide Robert F. Rossiter sentenced Cisneros to eight years in federal jail adopted by 15 years of supervised launch. The case originated in Kansas Metropolis, Mo., after the daddy of a 10-year-old woman there reported that his daughter had been speaking on-line with somebody who had requested her to ship sexually express images of herself. By way of undercover work, a detective in Kansas Metropolis decided that the suspect’s IP tackle was at an Omaha residence. Investigators executed a search warrant on the residence, and Cisneros admitted to participating within the dialog with the Kansas Metropolis little one in addition to having related conversations with different youngsters on-line. “Forensic examinations of Cisneros’s digital gadgets confirmed pictures of kid pornography saved on the gadgets,” the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace launch states.

Melissa Grantski, 51, of Seward, was sentenced this week in Lincoln by U.S. Decide John M. Gerrard for “willful failure to gather or pay over employment taxes.” She was sentenced to 5 years probation and 10 weekends of intermittent confinement. She was additionally fined greater than $58,000 in restitution. In October 2017, IRS officers observed Grantski had an unpaid tax debt for failing to pay payroll taxes for a trucking firm in Seward throughout seven quarters from 2015 to 2017. They later found that she was already on probation for the same conviction out of Seward County. “Investigators unsuccessfully labored with Grantski to return into compliance with tax legal guidelines and repay her tax debt,” the discharge states.

Christian Genchi, 29, of Omaha, was sentenced Friday by Decide Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. to fifteen years in jail for possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possessing a firearm throughout a drug trafficking crime. On Aug. 9, 2021, Omaha Police searched a house and located a protected within the storage. The protected belonged to Genchi and had a revolver and three kilos of meth inside.

Josiah Negley, 35, of Holdrege, was sentenced Friday by Decide Robert F. Rossiter Jr. to 10 years in jail for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or extra of methamphetamine. On March 30, 2019, police bought a search warrant for a constructing in Kearney. Negley was within the constructing in the course of the search, which ended within the seizure of 117 grams of meth. Co-defendants additionally allegedly indicated they went to Colorado to get meth to deliver again to Kearney to promote.

Anthony L. Taylor, 34, was sentenced Friday by Decide Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. to 2 years and 6 months in jail for being an addict in possession of a firearm. On April 10, 2020, a supply working for the ATF purchased a handgun from Taylor, who was a person of medication throughout this time.

Wesley S. Cassidy, 27, of Wallace, was sentenced Friday by Decide John M. Gerrard to 4 years and two months in jail for armed financial institution theft. On Aug. 19, 2021, Cassidy went into the Flatwater Financial institution in Gothenburg, Nebraska with a knife and demanded cash. After getting cash from the teller, Cassidy fled the financial institution and was apprehended shortly after.

Andrea Rodriguez, 42, of Norfolk, was sentenced Friday by Decide John M. Gerrard to 4 years probation and a $10,000 positive for 2 counts of embezzlement and theft from an Indian tribal group lower than $1,000. From July 2019 till to October 2020, Rodriguez was employed by the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska because the Director of the Ponca Tribe’s Home Violence Division. Rodriguez was answerable for dealing with cash that the Ponca tribe acquired from the 2018 Victims of Crime Act Help Grant. Rodriguez allegedly created false reimbursement requests from home violence victims. The false requests had been for paying the payments of home violence victims, as an alternative, they had been used to pay Rodriguez’s personal private payments. Rodriguez acquired roughly $19,431.57 in tribal funds in the course of the scheme.

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