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News Release: MIAMI - A South Florida man pled guilty in federal court today to conspiring to buy and sell more than 2.6 million Medicare beneficiary identification numbers, along with other personal identifiers.
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News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - David Jeffrey Edwards, 46, of Daniels, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl.
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News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the convictions of GEORGE GULDI, a former Suffolk County legislator and disbarred attorney, and VICTORIA DAVIDSON for defrauding Ditech Financial LLC, a mortgage lender, out of more than a quarter of a million dollars. The jury convicted GULDI and DAVIDSON of all counts following an approximately two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein.
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News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A St. Joseph, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
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News Release: CONCORD - Justin Smith, 34, of Rochester was sentenced today to 70 months in federal prison for one count of distributing 40 grams and more of fentanyl, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced.
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News Release: BOSTON - A repeat convicted felon has been charged by a federal grand jury in a superseding indictment on firearm and drug offenses.
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News Release: ANCHORAGE, ALASKA - Filthy Fuhrer, formerly Timothy Lobdell, 46; Roy Naughton, aka Thumper, 44; Glen Baldwin, aka Glen Dog, 41; Colter O’Dell, 30; and Craig King, aka Oakie, 57, were sentenced this week in Alaska to life in prison without the possibility of parole. All five defendants were convicted...
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News Release: BOSTON - Two Worcester residents have been sentenced for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy involving fentanyl and heroin.
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News Release: An Ohio man was arraigned today on criminal charges related to his alleged false statements to U.S. immigration and law enforcement officials about his military service and involvement in a politically and ethnically-motivated attack on civilians in Croatia during the civil war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
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News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Chesapeake and a Suffolk man pleaded guilty today and earlier this week to their roles in a series of armed robberies of 7-Eleven establishments in the Cities of Newport News, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach.
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News Release: A federal court in New York today unsealed murder-for-hire and money laundering charges against three members of an Eastern European criminal organization for plotting the murder of a U.S. citizen who has been targeted by the Government of Iran for speaking out against the regime’s human rights abuses.
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News Release: BOSTON - The leader of a local drug trafficking organization (DTO) was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for trafficking fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, carfentanil (a fentanyl analogue) in and around the Lawrence area and for possessing a loaded firearm in furtherance of his DTO’s operations.
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News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Monday, Orlando Miguel Valenzuela, 28, of Tucson, Arizona, pleaded guilty to Abusive Sexual Contact. Sentencing is scheduled for April 10, 2023, before United States District Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson.
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News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A former resident of Conshohocken, PA pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
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News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Jennelle Brown, 38, of Rochester, pleaded guilty in federal court today to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today.
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News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ENNA SERRANO-CRUZ, age 31, a native of Honduras, was charged on Jan. 25, 2023 in a one-count bill of information with illegally using a social security number to qualify for employment, in violation of Title 42, United States Code, Section 408(a)(7)(B).
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News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Eugene W. Williams, also known as “Bo," 46, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced today to seven years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for distribution of fentanyl.
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News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Esteven Matos, 31, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. to possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine and being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison.
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News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging Ryan E. Dales, age 34, of Baltimore, Maryland, with illegal possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon and with wire fraud, relating to the submission of fraudulent applications for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES") Act.
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News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that William A. Quinones, 48, of Mayville, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and sex trafficking of a minor. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison and a maximum of life.