Police Blotter

EL PASO – A Mexican national was sentenced today to life in prison for his role in the Sinaloa Cartel’s narcotics distribution operations. According to court documents, Arturo Shows Urquidi, …

Jackson, TN – David McNeely, 46, of Dyer County, has been sentenced to 140 months in federal prison for conspiring with others to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute …

          LOS ANGELES – A Santa Barbara man who allegedly stole approximately $12 million from victims who thought their investments would be used to purchase annuities today faces new charges …

BOSTON – A Providence man was sentenced today for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Roland S. Morgan, 38, was sentenced by U.S. Senior Court Judge …

FAYETTEVILLE – A Niotaze, Kansas man was sentenced today to 74 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release on one count of Possession with the Intent to …

BOSTON – A Lowell man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to illegal firearms sales. Elwood Cortes-Navedo, 26, pleaded guilty to engaging in the business of dealing in …

FAYETTEVILLE – A Northwest Arkansas couple has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking. The Honorable Judge Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearings for the United States …

PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that David Cooper, 47, of Reading, PA, was sentenced to 32 years in prison, eight years of supervised release, and was …

OKLAHOMA CITY – Last week, JORI NICHOLAS FRANKLIN, 27, of Midwest City, was sentenced to serve 20 years in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of firearms, …

PORTLAND, Maine: A Portland man pleaded guilty in federal court today to drug trafficking and firearm charges, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced. According to court records, on January 31, …

ST. LOUIS –Gerald E. Cardwell, Jr., 50, of O’Fallon, Missouri was sentenced today to life imprisonment for Distribution of a Controlled Substance (Fentanyl) Resulting in Death.  Cardwell was convicted by …

URBANA, Ill. – A federal grand jury returned an indictment against an Urbana, Illinois, man, Kevin C. Beasley, 21, currently of the 300 block of North Drive in Rantoul, Illinois, …

PITTSBURGH – A resident of suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years’ imprisonment on his conviction of violating federal narcotics trafficking laws, United States Attorney …

NORFOLK, Va. – A Norfolk man was sentenced today to 124 months in prison for possessing at least nine illegal firearms, committing credit union fraud in an attempt to gain …

ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA – Jay Dean Hall, of Petersburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 106 months of incarceration for drug and firearms charges, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced. …

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Derek David Henderson of Detroit, Michigan, has admitted to his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced. Henderson, 42, pleaded guilty …

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that defendant CHRISTOPHER OAKES received a sentence of thirty-six months in prison today for his role …

Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ARASH VAKHSHOURI, 43, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton …

NEWARK, N.J. – A Modesto, California, woman admitted today that she fraudulently created and sold over $9.9 million worth of counterfeit Catalina coupons used at various retail stores across the …

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Quintin Lewis, 31, of Chicago, IL, was arrested today, in Knoxville, Tennessee for committing various federal offenses, including being a felon in possession of firearms, possession with …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A Dunbar man was sentenced to two years of federal probation and ordered to pay over $70,000 in restitution for defrauding a community caretaking non-profit  that serves …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – James Pinson, 46, of Wayne County, and Frank Russo, 69, of North Carolina, were sentenced today for their roles in defrauding Toyota of over $4.3 million in …

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Olyimpus Shaquille Pereira, 28, of Stockton, charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, …

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – A Cherokee, N.C. man convicted of second degree murder by a federal jury was sentenced to 365 months in prison today, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney …

          LOS ANGELES – A North Hollywood man has been sentenced to 84 months in federal prison for possessing five firearms and more than 300 rounds of live ammunition inside …