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News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: Four key defendants in a Washington, Ga., area drug trafficking conspiracy have been sentenced to federal prison, with just two of the 21 indicted defendants awaiting trail while others are serving prison terms or awaiting sentencing.
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News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Jonathan Lee Sturkey, 37, of Huntington, was sentenced today to one year and six months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
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New Jersey Man Federally Charged with Enticement of a Minor and Interstate Transportation of a Minor to Engage in Criminal Sexual Activity
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News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Wilfredo Sanchez, 25, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute 10 grams or more of a fentanyl analogue and possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, was sentenced to serve 168 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
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News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Chatham County man faces a possible sentence of up to life in prison after admitting to a day-long spree of convenience store robberies.
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News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Oluwaseyi Akinyemi, a/k/a “Paddy Linkin", a/k/a “Joseph Kadin", age 35, of Hyattsville, Maryland, yesterday to eight years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release for two counts of mail fraud relating to a social media advanced fee fraud scheme that targeted elderly victims. Judge Chuang also ordered Akinyemi to pay $486,119.07 in restitution to his victims.
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News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On August 8, 2022, Charles Elsea, Jr., 44, a longtime inmate of the Tennessee Department of Corrections, was sentenced to life in prison by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville.
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Superseding Indictment Charges Two Additional Defendants for Their Roles in a Violent Carjacking Conspiracy Targeting Uber and Lyft Drivers
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News Release: A man who robbed the Country Store in Denison, Iowa, was sentenced August 4, 2022, to 17 years in federal prison.
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News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Wednesday sentenced a man who stole $141,000 worth of beauty supplies from six Missouri stores to a year in prison and ordered him to pay $141,611 in restitution.
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News Release: MISSOULA - A Missoula woman who admitted to distributing large amounts of methamphetamine in the community was sentenced today to 30 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal court entered a consent decree enjoining an Asheboro, North Carolina pharmacy and its two pharmacists from dispensing controlled substances, including opioids, without taking specific steps to help ensure the drugs will not be abused or diverted and ordering them to pay $300,000 in civil penalties, the Justice Department and U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina announced today.
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News Release: Sapulpa Man Receives 180 Months and Broken Arrow Man Receives 135 Months.
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News Release: Justice Department Launches Investigation of Maryland Department of State Police Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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News Release: Defendant Extradited from Greece to Face Charges Stemming from the Operation of BTC-e, an Illicit Bitcoin Exchange Alleged to Have Received Deposits Valued at Over $4 Billion.
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News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Lettia Harris, also known as “Tish," 30, of Charleston, was sentenced today to five years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
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News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - Demetrice “Peanut" Parker, 47, of Waycross Georgia, was sentenced to 207 months in prison for illegal possession of a gun and his part in a drug trafficking conspiracy that was responsible for the distribution of more than 37 kilograms of methamphetamine and 300 grams of heroin from Georgia to the Eastern District of North Carolina between 2018 and 2021. Parker had previously been convicted on federal drug trafficking charges in Georgia.
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News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Lawrence County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 150 months’ imprisonment and five years of supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
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News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
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News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - U.S. District Judge Roderick C. Young convicted a Norfolk man and woman yesterday on charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, opening a drug-involved premises, possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and marijuana, possession of firearms in relation to drug trafficking crimes, and being convicted felons in possession of firearms.