Two Kansans Sentenced for Operating Multimillion-Dollar Designer Drug Business
KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Two Kansans were sentenced Thursday for operating a synthetic drug business that generated $16 million in sales in less than two years, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. Tracy Picanso,...
View ArticlePhysician Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Distribution Of Oxycodone
LAS VEGAS, Nev.– A Nevada physician practicing as a specialist in pain management was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for distribution of large quantities of highly addictive prescription...
View ArticleFederal Grand Jury Indicts 18 in Methamphetamine Distribution Conspiracy
GREENEVILLE, Tenn. – On July 11, 2017, a federal Grand Jury in Greeneville returned a 49-count indictment against the following individuals for their roles in the distribution of methamphetamine: David...
View ArticleTopeka Man Pleads Guilty to $445,000 Tax Refund Scheme
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Topeka, Kan., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to a conspiracy that...
View ArticleFirearms Smuggler Pleads Guilty
LAREDO, Texas – A 27-year-old Laredoan has entered a guilty plea for his role in recruiting and leading a firearms smuggling ring, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Between March 2016 and...
View ArticleBucks County Public Officials Face Additional Charges
John I. Waltman, 59, of Trevose, Pennsylvania, Robert P. Hoopes, 70, of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and Bernard T. Rafferty, 62, of Langhorne, Pennsylvania were charged in a Superseding Indictment[1]...
View ArticleTuscarawas County man indicted for child pornography crimes
Elmer S. McMasters, 28, of Uhrichsville, was charged with receiving, distributing and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S....
View ArticleSpringfield Man Sentenced to 15 Years for Illegal Firearms
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing...
View ArticleAkron man indicted for firearms crime
An Akron man was indicted on federal firearms charges. Quincey T. Smith, 26, was indicted on one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The indictment alleges that on or...
View ArticleNashville Return Preparer Pleads Guilty To Filing False Tax Returns
Robert J. Spears, 35, a Nashville resident and tax return preparer, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to one count of preparing a false tax return for his client and one count of filing his...
View ArticleSouth Texas Woman Convicted of Sex Trafficking Of A Minor
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A 55-year-old Brownsville woman has entered a plea to one count of sex trafficking of a nine-year-old girl, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Maria Candelaria Losoya...
View ArticleMaryland Man Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison For Pandering and Child Cruelty
WASHINGTON –Branden Dixon, 24, who led police on a pursuit earlier this year with a one-year-old girl in his car, has been sentenced to seven years in prison on charges of pandering and...
View ArticleResident Alien Heads to Federal Prison for Importing Heroin
LAREDO, Texas – A 54-year-old legal permanent resident alien who was living in Alabama has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of importing heroin in to the country, announced...
View ArticleTopeka Man Pleads Guilty To Filing False Tax Returns
TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka tax preparer pleaded guilty Tuesday to filing false tax returns, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. Maurice L. Stewart, 39, Topeka, Kan., pleaded guilty to 13 counts of filing false...
View ArticleFormer Bullitt County Sheriff’s Special Deputy Sentenced To 36 Months In...
Co-defendants admitted to concealing the criminal activities from law enforcement LOUISVILLE, Ky. – United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr. today announced the sentencing of a former Bullitt County,...
View ArticleRochester Area Men Plead Guilty To Drug Trafficking Charges
CONCORD, N.H. – Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley today announced that two men from the Rochester, New Hampshire area pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking charges based upon...
View ArticleTom Begaye, Jr., Pleads Guilty to Murder, Aggravated Sexual Abuse and...
ALBUQUERQUE – Tom Begaye, Jr., 28, entered a guilty plea this afternoon to a six-count indictment charging him with murder, aggravated sexual abuse and kidnapping offenses arising out of the abduction...
View ArticleSpringfield Man, Willard Woman Plead Guilty to Meth, Money Laundering...
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man and a Willard, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today...
View ArticleFormer Deputy Director of USAID Contractor Sentenced for Theft of Grant Funds
WASHINGTON – Eugene Sickle, the former deputy executive director of a South African research institute, was sentenced today to seven months of incarceration and ordered to pay $206,250 in...
View ArticleRepeat Drug Dealer Sentenced to 140 Months in Federal Prison
EUGENE, Ore. – On Tuesday, August 1, 2017, United States District Court Judge Michael J. McShane sentenced Florentino Ambriz-Banderas, 49, to 140 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute...
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