Mississippi Woman Sentenced for Making False Statements to New Orleans...
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that MARINA ARNEDO ROJAS-ZAYED, age 34, a resident of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to one count of making...
View Article‘Dirty Block’ Gang Leader Sentenced To Life In Prison For Drug Conspiracy And...
CAMDEN, N.J. – The leader of a criminal street gang that used threats, intimidation and violence to maintain control of the illegal drug trade in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was sentenced today to life...
View ArticleThree Bronx Men, Including A Corrections Officer, Charged In Manhattan...
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriquez, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
View ArticleGainesville Man Sentenced to 25 Years for Human Trafficking
GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA– Mikel Alemin Craig, 33, of Gainesville, Florida, was sentenced today to 25 years in federal prison for sex trafficking of an adult by force and coercion. The sentence was...
View ArticleInternational Operation Concludes in Montana; Convicts 21 Defendants of Child...
MISSOULA – The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Montana announces today the conclusion of an international operation that convicted twenty-one defendants of child pornography related...
View ArticleMarrero Homeowner Pleads Guilty to Theft of $50K in Home Elevation Grant Funds
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that CINDY DANDRIDGE, age 43, of Marrero, pled guilty today to theft of government funds.According to court documents, DANDRIDGE owned a home in Marrero. In...
View ArticleNew Orleans Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison on Narcotics and Firearm...
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that TYRONE TAYLOR, age 47, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after having previously pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more...
View ArticleKurbanov Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
BOISE – Fazliddin Kurbanov, 33, an Uzbek national, was sentenced today to 25 years in federal prison by Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge of the District of Idaho for conspiring and attempting...
View ArticleHammond Resident Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Traffic Cocaine
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that KELVIN PROVOST, age 38, of Hammond, pled guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of a...
View ArticleProminent Bend Plumber Sentenced for Filing False Tax Returns
PORTLAND, Ore. – On Tuesday, January 5, 2015, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Gary L. Ford, 55, of Bend, Oregon, today to 18 months in prison for filing false tax returns in 2007,...
View ArticleHonduran National Charged with Illegal Reentry
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ALEX JAVIER HERNANDEZ-MEJIA, a/k/a “Alex A. Fernandez,” a/k/a “Alex Hernandesmejia,” and a/k/a “Alex Javier Mejia Henandez,” age 21, a citizen of...
View ArticleFederal Jury Convicts Member of International Child Exploitation Conspiracy
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Brian K. Hendrix, 42, of Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, was convicted today by a federal jury on child pornography charges relating to his participation in two websites that were operated for...
View ArticleSentencings for January 4, 2016 - January 8, 2016
Barry Barrera, 32, of Casper, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on January 8, 2016, for conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine and for...
View ArticleBerlin Man Pleads Guilty to Armed Bank Robbery and to Brandishing a Firearm
Baltimore, Maryland – Jeff V. Hare, age 53, of Berlin, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. The guilty plea was announced by United...
View ArticleRice Farmer Convicted and Fined for Poisoning Birds
VICTORIA, Texas – The operator of a Danbury rice farm has entered a guilty plea to illegally killing 65 brown-headed cowbirds and four red-tailed hawks, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along...
View ArticleDistrict Man Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison For Two Home Invasions in...
WASHINGTON – Tavon Barber, 20, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 40 years in prison on charges stemming from a pair of home invasions he committed within a roughly 20-hour period...
View ArticleNew York Man Receives Federal Prison Time for Extortion Scheme
Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ERNEST SYKU, 45, of the Bronx, N.Y., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Woman Charged With Interfering With Flight Crew
PHILADELPHIA - Sarah Buffett, 41, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was charged yesterday by Information with assaulting another person, while in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States,...
View ArticleNew Orleans Man Indicted for Fraud in Aftermath of BP Oil Spill
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that GRAEGG L. HOLMES, age 42, of New Orleans, was charged today in a two-count Indictment with wire fraud related to the BP Oil Spill.According to the...
View ArticleMemphis Man Sentenced to 120 Months for Bank, Business Robberies
Memphis, TN – A Memphis man has been sentenced to 120 months for robbing a First Tennessee Bank and Family Dollar Store. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee,...
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