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News Release: Acting United States Attorney Nicholas Vassallo announced today that ELVIN WAYNE MCCLAIN, 30, of Arapahoe, Wyoming, was sentenced on Aug. 18, 2022, for assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm. United States District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal sentenced McClain to 36 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release, and ordered him to pay a $100 special assessment.
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News Release: WACO - Two Killeen men were sentenced today for their roles in armed robberies in Killeen. Roosevelt Jones IV, 26, was sentenced to 20 years in prison and ordered to pay $12,026 in restitution and Christopher Teon Fults, 29, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay $9,356 in restitution.
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News Release: Acting United States Attorney Nicholas Vassallo announced today that EMILIO LEE WESAW, age 31, of Fort Washakie, Wyoming, was sentenced on Aug. 16, 2022, for assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Chief United States District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl sentenced Wesaw to 27 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release, and ordered him to pay a $100 special assessment.
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News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
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News Release: Spokane, Washington - Today, Chief U.S. District Judge Stanley A. Bastian sentenced Clifton Frank Peter, 37, of Wapato, Washington, to 600 months in federal prison, to be followed by a 5-year term of court supervision after he is released, and restitution in the amount of $86,170. Earlier this year...
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News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Jasaun Pope a/k/a “Biz", 31, of Valley Stream, New York, was sentenced to 97 months in federal prison late yesterday for mail fraud and money laundering offenses related to his role in a nationwide elder fraud scheme. Pope and four co-conspirators have all signed plea agreements for their roles in the offense, and Pope is the first to be sentenced.
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News Release: Miami, Florida - A federal grand jury in Miami returned an indictment today charging a Venezuelan national for laundering the proceeds of substantially inflated procurement contracts obtained by making bribe payments to senior officials at Petropiar, a joint venture between Venezuela’s state-owned and state-controlled energy company and an American oil company.
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News Release: ATLANTA - Ibnisa Durr has been sentenced to federal prison for possessing a firearm after a felony sentence. Durr fled from officers in a highspeed chase on Georgia 400 before ultimately crashing his vehicle and attempting to throw a bag containing a loaded firearm over an interstate guardrail.
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News Release: SAN ANTONIO - A former schoolteacher with the Southside Independent School District was sentenced yesterday to 240 months in prison on child pornography charges.
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News Release: TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - This week a federal judge sentenced a convicted felon charged with drug trafficking while armed announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Explosives, and Firearms (“ATF") Special Agent in Charge Mickey French.
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News Release: COVINGTON, Ky.- Two Cincinnati men, Taravon Geer, 28, and Keith Upshaw, 26, were sentenced to federal prison Tuesday, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, after previously pleading guilty to their roles in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl. Geer was sentenced to 216 months in prison and Upshaw was sentenced to 60 months in prison. A third member of the conspiracy, Radaja Ford, was sentenced to 228 months in prison.
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News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to34 months in prison for violating federal drug trafficking and firearms laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
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News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey on Wednesday sentenced a St. Louis man who carjacked a woman and stole her phone in 2020 to 11 years and two months in prison.
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News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced today that Rick Benavidez, 47, of Albuquerque, was sentenced in federal court to five years and three months in prison for leading and organizing two auto loan fraud schemes involving a total intended loss of more than $1.5 million.
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There is one release scheduled to be published on Aug. 25.
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News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - A Rocky Mount man was sentenced today to 335 months in prison for leading a conspiracy to sell cocaine, crack, and other controlled substances. Terrence Brandon Mabry, 32, pled guilty on Jan. 23, 2020.
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News Release: Louisville, KY - A federal grand jury in Louisville returned four indictments last week separately charging firearms and drug offenses. According to the indictments.
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News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday has sentenced Hector Fabio Garcia Vengohechea (59, Cartagena, Colombia) to 30 years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine on a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Garcia Vengohechea had pleaded guilty on Jan. 19, 2022.
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News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man today admitted leading a drug trafficking organization that operated out of a drug mill located in the Bronx, New York, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
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News Release: DETROIT - A Detroit resident pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud, in connection with schemes to defraud multiple state workforce agencies and the Small Business Administration out of more than $2.2 million in Covid-19 pandemic assistance and also to defraud the U.S. Postal Service of another $200,000, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison.