New England HIDTA Recognized for Investigative Excellence
BOSTON – The New England High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) was recognized on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, with the National HIDTA of the Year Award for its outstanding work in reducing drug...
View ArticlePlattsburgh Man Charged in Fatal Heroin Overdose
PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK – Thomas A. Burnell, age 34, of Plattsburgh, New York, was charged today with distributing heroin resulting in another person’s death. The announcement was made by United States...
View ArticleTwo Members of Multi-State Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced on Thursday
Contact Person: Andy Moorman (864) 282-2100Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced that two members of a large, multi-state drug trafficking organization were sentenced...
View ArticlePair Sentenced to Fifteen Years in Federal Prison for Drug Trafficking
Hot Springs, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Alicia Bucy, age 60, of Hot Springs and Peaches Marie Herrick, age 40, of Kaufman,...
View ArticleJury Convicts Buckeye Lake Man of Receiving, Possessing Child Pornography...
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A United States District Court jury convicted Joshua D. Chapman-Sexton, 31, of Buckeye Lake, Ohio, of all counts, which include receipt and possession of child pornography....
View ArticleLocal Businessman Pleads Guilty in $70 Million Ponzi Scheme
DAYTON – William M. Apostelos, 55, formerly of Springboro, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to charges related to a $70 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded nearly 500 victims....
View ArticleFive Charged In Steroid Distribution Conspiracy
Jacksonville, FL – United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Donald McCloud Long (50), Sarah Ann Long (33), Armando F. Aman (37), all of Jacksonville,...
View ArticleManatee County Probationer Sentenced To More Than Six Years For Possessing A...
Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington today sentenced Pedro Garcia (34, Manatee County) to six years and six months in federal prison for knowingly possessing a firearm...
View ArticleBradenton Man Sentenced To Ten Years For Possessing A Loaded Firearm And Heroin
Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Brandon Williams (31, Bradenton) to 10 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon, and...
View ArticleTwelve Current And Former Tsa And Airport Employees Indicted For Smuggling...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – On February 8, 2017, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a superseding indictment against twelve defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with...
View ArticleFour People Charged Federally for Bank Robbery Conspiracy Using Hoax Bomb
BIRMINGHAM –Four people involved in a conspiracy to rob a bank by placing a hoax bomb at an elementary school to divert police were in federal court last week after their January indictment was...
View ArticleNew Jersey Man Guilty of Wethersfield Warehouse Robbery
Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in New Haven has found ANDREW ORECKINTO, 52, of Matawan, New Jersey, guilty of stealing more...
View ArticleTexas Man Guilty Of Interference With Flight Attendant
HONOLULU – A federal jury today found William Clark Turner, 53, of Kemp, Texas, guilty of one count of interference with a flight attendant. The verdict followed a four-day jury trial. Sentencing is...
View ArticleCivilian Army Police Officer Pleads Guilty To Armed Bank Robbery
Baltimore, Maryland – Alan Kemp, age 38, of District Heights, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to armed bank robbery and to using a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. Kemp was employed as a...
View ArticlePlantation Physician and Physician Practice to Pay $750,000 to Resolve False...
Dr. Paul B. Tartell, an ENT physician practicing in Plantation, Florida and his practice Paul B. Tartell, M.D., P.L., have agreed to pay $750,000 to resolve allegations that he violated the False...
View ArticleRoanoke Man who Pled Guilty to Distributing Methamphetamine,Illegally...
Roanoke, VIRGINIA – A Roanoke man, who sold methamphetamine and illegally possessed a shotgun after having been previously convicted of a felony, was sentenced today in the United States District Court...
View ArticleCleveland man faces 15 years in prison for administering group that shared...
A Cleveland man who administered an online group that shared images and videos of toddlers being sexually assaulted pleaded guilty today, said U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon. Brian Keeling, 34, faces a...
View ArticleMaryland Man Pleads Guilty to Carjacking, Drove Off with Woman and Her...
WASHINGTON – Jesse Green III, 41, of Germantown, Md., has pled guilty to carrying out a carjacking earlier this year in Southeast Washington in which he drove off with a woman and her...
View ArticleOhio woman pleads guilty to illegally possessing a firearm and assaulting a...
ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA – Peggy Chaffin, 37, of Portsmouth, Ohio, pled guilty to illegally possessing a gun and using said gun to obstruct a Deputy U. S. Marshal, Acting United States Attorney Betsy...
View ArticleDistrict Man Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison For Series of Burglaries in...
WASHINGTON – Melvin Anthony Turner, 49, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to a seven-year prison term for a series of burglaries of commercial establishments in Northwest Washington...
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