Spice Manufacturers Convicted for Selling Spice in Hampton Roads
NORFOLK, Va. – Charles Burton Ritchie, 46, Benjamin Galecki, 42, both of Pensacola, Florida, were convicted today by a federal jury on charges related to their respective roles in a $21 million spice...
View ArticleDavenport Man Sentenced for Felon in Possession of Ammunition Charge
DAVENPORT, IA - On January 23, 2017, Marcus Anthony Brown, age 27, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by Chief District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to five years in prison after pleading guilty to felon...
View ArticleU.S. Intervenes in East Texas False Claims Act Lawsuit Alleging Kickbacks for...
SHERMAN, Texas – The United States has filed a complaint intervening in an alleged kickback scheme in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today. The United...
View ArticleMaryland MS-13 Member Sentenced to Life in Federal Prison for Racketeering...
Greenbelt, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Miguel Angel Manjivar, aka “Masflow or “Garra,” age 25, of Hyattsville, Maryland, today to 30 years in federal prison for conspiracy...
View ArticleLeader of Chicago Street Gang Sentenced to 22 Years in Federal Prison for...
CHICAGO — A convicted felon who was a leader of the violent Gangster 2-6 Nation street gang has been sentenced to 22 years in prison on federal gun and drug charges.A federal jury in 2015 convicted...
View ArticleFormer Des Moines Man Sentenced to Prison for Bank Robbery
DES MOINES, IA – On January 23, 2017, Robert Dwayne Humburd IIIheather Jean Reekr, age 38, formerly of Des Moines, Iowa, was sentenced by Senior United States District Court Judge James E. Gritzner to...
View ArticleSchneider Charged with Federal Hate Crime Indictment Alleges Assault Based on...
BOISE B Kelly Schneider, 23, of Nampa, Idaho, was indicted on January 10, 2017, by a federal grand jury sitting in Boise for willfully assaulting a person because of the person’s sexual orientation,...
View ArticleFormer office manager of Mountain State Justice pleads guilty for embezzling...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A former office manager at Mountain State Justice who embezzled over $1.5 million pleaded guilty today, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Kim Cooper, 55, of St. Albans,...
View ArticleTwo convicted on methamphetamine distribution charges
ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA – Two men pled guilty to methamphetamine distribution charges in federal court today, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.Calvin Norris Herron, 43, of...
View ArticleSix Mission, Texas Residents Plead Guilty to Participating in Drug...
In San Antonio today, six more individuals pleaded guilty to their roles in a drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy occurring in South Texas, Central Texas and Oklahoma announced United...
View ArticleGrant County Man Pleads Guilty to Unlawfully Possessing a .50 Caliber Machine...
EUGENE, Ore. – On Monday, January 23, 2017, Michael Ray Emry, 54, of John Day, Oregon, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken to unlawful possession of a fully automatic .50 caliber...
View ArticleWoman Pleads Guilty in Murder-for-Hire of Ex-Husband
EUGENE, Ore. – On Monday, January 23, 2017, Pamela Jean Gygi, 58, of Westlake, Oregon, pleaded guilty to the use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of a murder for hire and possession...
View ArticlePocahontas County man pleads guilty to failing to update his sex offender...
ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA – Clifton R. Summerfield, 34, of Marlinton, West Virginia, pled guilty to failing to update his sex offender registration, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen,...
View ArticleDefendant Sentenced to 46 Months for Sexual Abuse of a Minor
Assistant U. S. Attorney Jennifer Gmitro (619) 546-9692 NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY– January 23, 2017 SAN DIEGO – Dylan Wayne Cowdrey was sentenced in federal court today to 46 months in prison for sexually...
View ArticleVeteran Leader Takes The Helm Of U.S. Attorney's Office
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN— Andrew Byerly Birge assumed the duties of Acting U.S. Attorney by operation of law following U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles, Jr.’s resignation last Friday at noon....
View ArticleNew Jersey Man Sentenced on Heroin Charge
Roanoke, VIRGINIA – A New Jersey man, who was dealing heroin in the City of Roanoke, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke on a federal...
View ArticleFormer Correctional Officer Pleads Guilty to Having Illegal Sexual Contact...
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma– AMANDA HOCK, 35, of Kingsland, Georgia,pled guilty today to having illegal sexual contact with an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Oklahoma ("FCI-El...
View ArticleU.S. Marshals Arrest Jefferson County Man for Sex Trafficking of a Minor
BIRMINGHAM – U.S. Marshals late last week arrested a Jefferson County man on a charge of sex trafficking of a minor, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger...
View ArticleLas Cruces Felon Sentenced to Prison for Unlawfully Possessing Firearm
ALBUQUERQUE – Richard Isaac Quezada, 34, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court to 46 months in prison for violating the federal firearms laws by illegally possessing a...
View ArticleGeorgia Man Charged with Cyber Crime That Cost Sedgwick County $566,000
WICHITA, KAN.B A Georgia man has been arrested on federal charges he carried out an e-mail spoofing scheme that cost Sedgwick County $566,000, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. George S. James, 48,...
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