U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of North Carolina
Recent News About U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of North Carolina
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Amy Elizabeth Curry, a former office manager at Silver Bluff, LLC in Canton, North Carolina, has been sentenced to 70 months in prison for embezzling over $1.5 million from the senior living facility. U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson announced the...
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Tyrone Eugene Sitton, also known as "Dirty," has been sentenced to 151 months in prison for fentanyl trafficking and gun charges.
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Jaden Isaiah Garay, a 25-year-old from Weaverville, North Carolina, has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for carjacking and discharging a firearm that seriously injured a U.S. Postal worker.
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Bikramjit Ahluwalia, a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates residing in Dubai, has been extradited from Spain to face charges in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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A registered sex offender from Charlotte, North Carolina, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
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Multiple defendants were sentenced in federal court for firearms violations, according to Lawrence J. Cameron, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
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Jeannetta Blackmon, also known as Jeannetta Regan, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for her involvement in a fraudulent scheme.
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Chaiya Maley-Jackson, a 25-year-old resident of Concord, North Carolina, appeared in federal court following her arrest on charges related to fraud involving the sale and transfer of fake Social Security Cards.
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Alijah Kajuan Rollinson, a 23-year-old resident of Charlotte, has been sentenced to 57 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for unlawfully possessing a firearm.
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A convicted sex offender, Jesse Thomas Cunningham, has been sentenced to 37 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
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A federal judge has ordered Robert Garner Gambill, a 91-year-old resident of Sparta, North Carolina, to pay a $9,500 fine and surrender his firearm for killing a bald eagle.
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Bryan Torres, a 24-year-old resident of Cherryville, North Carolina, has been sentenced to ten years in prison followed by four years of supervised release.
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Prescriptions Plus, a pharmacy located in Gastonia, North Carolina, has agreed to pay $204,000 following allegations of violating the Controlled Substances Act's recordkeeping requirements.
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Stephanie L. Roberts, a former executive director of a Gastonia-based non-profit organization for cancer patients, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for embezzling thousands of dollars from the charity.
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A pair of businessmen from Charlotte, North Carolina, have been sentenced in federal court for failing to account for and pay over more than $150,000 in trust fund taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over five quarters in 2016 and 2017.
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David Christopher Ballard, a 45-year-old resident of Catawba, North Carolina, has been sentenced to 87 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for possessing multiple illegal firearms, including a machinegun.
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A Charlotte man and his co-conspirator have been sentenced to prison for sex trafficking a minor, according to an announcement by Lawrence J. Cameron, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
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Ashley James Crouse, a 53-year-old pastor from Granite Falls, North Carolina, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for possession and receipt of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
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Taiji Group USA, Inc., a paper converter based in Conover, North Carolina, has agreed to pay $460,395.09 to settle allegations of violating the False Claims Act.
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U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell has sentenced Cleveland Pegues, a 40-year-old resident of Charlotte, to five years in prison for armed cocaine trafficking.