Eastern District of North Carolina

Acting United States Attorney G. Norman Acker, III, and AmeriCorps today announced settlements with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (“UNC-CH”), East Carolina University (“ECU”), and the North Carolina Commission…

RALEIGH, N.C. – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that today in federal court, Simbala Gory, 45, a naturalized citizen of the United States, born…

RALEIGH, N.C. – The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued an order on Thursday, September 16 dismissing an appeal filed by convicted murderer Jeffrey MacDonald.  As a result,…

RALEIGH, N.C. – A Henderson man was sentenced today to 235 months in prison for two counts of Felon in Possession of Ammunition.  On June 10, 2021, Caleb Malik Batchelor, pled guilty…

RALEIGH, N.C. – A Jones County man was sentenced today to 115 months in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, which he used to assault with the…

NEW BERN, N.C. – Alexander Charles Pridgen, of Greenville, North Carolina, was sentenced today to 15 months in federal prison, 2 years of supervised release (including three months of home confinement) and…

RALEIGH, N.C. – A former Army Captain, previously stationed at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, and his wife’s company, White Board Solutions, pled guilty to federal charges today before United States Magistrate Judge…

RALEIGH, N.C. – Antoine Lamar Wallace, of Garner, was sentenced today to 156 months in prison for sex trafficking of a minor and aiding and abetting. According to court records and evidence…

WILMINGTON, N.C. – Timothy Mark Harron, a Las Vegas resident, was sentenced today to 144 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $4,321,590.39 in restitution to the North Carolina Medicaid Program…

GREENVILLE, N.C. – A Bladenboro man was sentenced today to 6 months in prison for the theft of government property and Social Security fraud and ordered to pay $8,599.10 in restitution.  He…

RALEIGH, N.C. – A man from Oriental, North Carolina was sentenced today to over 24 years in prison for the distribution of controlled substances in Pamlico county.  On February 24, 2021, Kenneth…

RALEIGH, N.C. – Cory Dean Maieritsch, 33, of Charlotte, was sentenced today to 54 months in prison for distribution of heroin.  Maieritsch pled guilty to the single-count Indictment on March 1, 2021. …

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WILMINGTON, N.C. – A Jacksonville husband and wife duo pleaded guilty today to transporting illegal aliens onto Camp Lejeune Marine Base by boat. According to court documents, Timothy Scott Belcher, 56 and…

NEW BERN, N.C. – A Pamlico County man was sentenced on August 24, 2021, to 12 months and one day in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for possession of…

WILMINGTON, N.C. – A Henderson man was sentenced to 101 months in prison for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and possession of a firearm by a…

RALEIGH, N.C. – Today, Paul James Kryscuk, 35, Liam Collins, 21, Jordan Duncan, 26, and Joseph Maurino, 22, were charged via a third superseding indictment obtained in the Eastern District of North…

RALEIGH, N.C. – Three men formerly employed at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina were arrested today on charges of bribery of a government official. Calvin Alfonza Jordan, 64, Edward Wade Crisco, 59, and…

RALEIGH, N.C. – A Fayetteville, North Carolina woman, Lakisha Victoria McDougald, was sentenced today to 30 months and three years of supervised release for theft of government funds.  McDougald was also ordered…

WILMINGTON, N.C. – A Lumberton man pleaded guilty today to the possession of another’s identification document with the intent to defraud the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1028(a)(4).  According to…

WILMINGTON, N.C. – A Pembroke man was sentenced yesterday to 160 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking…

RALEIGH, N.C. – A Kill Devil Hills man was sentenced today to 126 months in prison and five years of supervised release for trafficking cocaine. On May 21, 2020, Herndon Hunt Outlaw…

RALEIGH, N.C. – A Smithfield man was sentenced today to three consecutive life sentences in prison for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion and of a minor; sex…

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