Dominican National Pleads Guilty to Fentanyl Distribution
BOSTON – A Dominican national who previously resided in Clifton, N.J., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to fentanyl distribution. Carlos Nunez, 49, pleaded guilty one count of…
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BOSTON – A Dominican national who previously resided in Clifton, N.J., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to fentanyl distribution. Carlos Nunez, 49, pleaded guilty one count of…
OAKLAND – Thomas Henderson pleaded guilty in federal court today to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of making a false statement to a government…
Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a Spring Creek, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, was sentenced on July 19, 2021, by Chief…
Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on July 19, 2021, by Chief…
BOSTON – A Worcester man pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with using stolen identities to fraudulently purchase MBTA passes. Kokou Kuakumensah,…
ATLANTA – Santwon Antonio Davis has been sentenced for wire fraud related to a scheme to defraud his employer, and on a bank fraud charge related to a scheme to…
WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA – Genghis Taylor, of Cleveland, Ohio, has admitted to a drug charge, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced. Taylor, also known as “G,” 38, pleaded guilty…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Ismael Valdez, 38, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, was sentenced on July 19 in federal court to 12 years in prison for…
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Rochester man pleaded guilty today to arson of a Minneapolis pawn shop, announced Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk. According to his guilty plea, on…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Justice today launched five cross-jurisdictional strike forces to help reduce gun violence by disrupting illegal firearms trafficking in key regions across the country. Leveraging…
CHICAGO — A Chicago man who allegedly carjacked a vehicle at gunpoint on the city’s West Side and fired a handgun while attempting to carjack another vehicle has been arraigned…
Greenville, South Carolina—- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart stated today that Lazarus Floyd, 44, of Taylors, has been sentenced to more than 22 years in federal prison, after…
PORTLAND, Maine— Two Lewiston men were sentenced today in U.S District Court in Portland for health care fraud, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced. U.S. District Judge Jon D.…
TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA – Chester Herbert, 41, of Tallahassee, Florida, has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted…
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – A Henderson man was sentenced on Thursday to six years in prison for distributing methamphetamine. According to court documents, between March 6 and April 3, 2018,…
SALT LAKE CITY – All eight of the co-defendants in the case against Aaron Michael Shamo have been sentenced after a series of sentencing hearings took place this week in…
Baltimore, Maryland – U.S. District Court Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Igor Cooper Rosensteel, age 30, of Middle River, Maryland to 50 months in federal prison for device fraud and…
HARRISBURG – Acting United States Attorney Bruce D. Brandler for the Middle District of Pennsylvania; Acting Assistant Attorney General Nicholas L. McQuaid of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; Special Agent…
Henry Edenilson Salmeron, a member of the violent transnational criminal organization La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the “MS-13,” and fugitive from justice, was extradited from Guatemala to the United…
A federal jury convicted a veteran detective for the Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Police Department, who was also a task force officer with the FBI and a member of the Cumberland County…
TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA – A federal jury in Tallahassee has convicted Brian Joins, 51, and Joshua Webb, 38, both of Panama City, Florida for the offenses of conspiracy to possess with…
GREAT FALLS—A federal firearms licensee at Modern Pawn and Consignment, a Helena business, and three others were arraigned on July 15 on charges in an indictment alleging multiple firearms crimes,…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – U.S. District Court Judge Francisco A. Besosa sentenced Marcos Rivera-Ramos to 156 months (13 years) in prison and 10 years of supervised release for sexual…
A convicted sex offender pled guilty July 15, 2021, to failure to register as a sex offender in federal court in Sioux City. Duane Levering, age 36, from Fort Dodge,…
BILLINGS – A Laurel man who admitted meth trafficking and firearms crimes after investigators found seven pounds of the drug along with firearms in a search of his residence was…