Killeen Couple Admit to Multi-Million Dollar Fraud Scheme Involving Mass Transportation Benefit Program at Fort Hood
WACO – Today, 42-year-old Kevin Romulus Pelayo and 37-year-old Cristine Furio Fredericks admitted to conducting a multi-million-dollar scheme to defraud the U.S. Army with respect to a mass transportation benefit program at…
CEO of Limited Liability Company Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Wire Fraud
CAMDEN, N.J. – The chief executive officer of a private equity investment firm was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for defrauding an investor of $1.35 million dollars, Acting U.S. Attorney…
Columbus Man Pleads Guilty to Role in Jackson County Heroin Conspiracy
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A Columbus, Ohio man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime. According to court documents and statements made in court, from on or about October 2018 until November…
Rochester Pawn Shop Owner Pleads Guilty To Selling More Than A million Dollars Worth Of Stolen Goods
CONTACT: Barbara Burns PHONE: (716) 843-5817 FAX #: (716) 551-3051 ROCHESTER, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Thomas Nary, 39, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth…
St. Louis man pleads guilty to aiding and abetting a carjacking
ST. LOUIS – Jaden Allen, 20, of St. Louis, Missouri, pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting the commission of a carjacking. Allen appeared today before United States District Court Judge…
Man with Ties to Florida and New Jersey Arrested for Assault on Law Enforcement during Jan. 6 Capitol Breach
A man with ties to Florida and New Jersey was arrested yesterday for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of the…
Former Mexican governor sent to US prison for money laundering
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A former Coahuila, Mexico, governor has been ordered to federal prison for his role in a money laundering scheme that includes offenses against a foreign nation involving bribery…
New Orleans Man Sentenced After Being Convicted by A Federal Trial Jury for Being A Felon in Possession of Firearms
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New Orleans Man Pleads Guilty to Violating the Federal Gun Control Act
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on June 16, 2021, ALONZO PITTMAN, 34, from Orleans Parish, pled guilty as charged to a one-count indictment for being a Felon…
Baltimore meth kingpin gets 15 years in federal prison
BALTIMORE, MD – U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Desmond Ringgold, a/k/a Worm and Fool, age 32, of Baltimore, Maryland to 15 years in federal prison, followed by five years of…
Gloucester County Man Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Production and Distribution of Obscene Images of Children
CAMDEN, N.J. – A Gloucester County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 300 months in prison for producing and distributing images of child sexual abuse, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig…
New Jersey Man Sentenced to 12 years in Prison for Armed Robbery of Barbershop
CAMDEN, N.J. – A Camden man was sentenced today to 141 months in prison for robbing a Camden barbershop at gunpoint, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced. Benjamin Daye, 34, previously…
Laredo men receive significant sentences for trafficking $4 million of marijuana
LAREDO, TEXAS – A 35-year-old Laredo resident has been ordered to federal prison after conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute 1,261.5 kilograms of marijuana, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B.…
Man charged for making violent threats to federal judge in Chicago
CHICAGO, ILLINOUS – A man has been indicted on criminal charges for allegedly threatening to assault and murder a federal judge in Chicago. JOSHUA FARNER, 35, of Marion, Ill., is charged with…
DA investigator indicted on drug and money laundering charges
HOUSTON, TEXAS – An investigator with the Waller County District Attorney’s Office has been charged with attempting to possess with the intent to distribute heroin as well as attempting to launder drug…
Kyle Man Sentenced to 45 Years in Federal Prison for Sexual Assault
KYLE, SOUTH DAKOTA – Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Kyle, South Dakota, man convicted of two counts of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced by Jeffrey L. Viken,…
Columbia Man Convicted at Trial of Being a Felon in Possession of a Loaded Firearm and Possession of Crack Cocaine
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA – ActingUnited States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart. announced that Eric Jahann Nixon, 39, of Columbia, was convicted Friday by a jury following a three-day trial in federal court in…
Georgia Inmate Sentenced to 15 Years on Federal Methamphetamine Charge
HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA – Abel Gallegos Hernandez, an inmate serving prison time in Georgia, who coordinated the distribution of more than 500 grams of methamphetamine using drug packages hidden in tires of vehicles…
Verona Teen Sentenced to Prison for Role in DS44 Gang’s Drug Trafficking
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA — A resident of Verona, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to 15 months of imprisonment followed by two years of supervised released on his conviction of conspiracy to…
Luling Man Charged with Possession of Files Depicting the Sexual Victimization of Children
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DOMINIC ROMANO, age 20, a resident of Luling, Louisiana, was charged on Friday, April 9, 2021, by a federal grand jury sitting…
Meth and Cocaine Distribution Leader known as “Picasso” Sentenced
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA – Acting U.S. Attorney John E. Childress announced today that Kenyatta Ray, 43, Indianapolis, was sentenced to 278 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge James R. Sweeney for…
Former Santa Maria Resident Sentenced to Three Months in Federal Prison for Shooting Elephant Seal to Death
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – A former resident of Santa Barbara County was sentenced today to three months in federal prison for fatally shooting a northern elephant seal on a beach near San Simeon.…
Stockton Man Sentenced to over 17 Years in Prison for Conspiracy to Engage in Sex Trafficking of a Child
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA – Lucious James Roy, 34, of Stockton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to 17 years and seven months in prison for conspiracy to engage in sex…
Man Pleads Guilty to Distributing Fentanyl While Released on Bond in Federal Gun Case
WEST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT- Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRIAN VELEZ, also known as “Whites,” 32, formerly of Hartford and West Hartford, pleaded guilty…
San Diego Man Sentenced to 188 Months in Fentanyl Overdose Death
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – Jeffrey Alden Blair was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Battaglia to 188-months in prison for supplying the fentanyl that led to the fatal overdose of…
New York Man Convicted Of Conspiracy And Attempt To Engage In Sex Trafficking Of A Minor
TAMPA, FLORIDA – A federal jury has found Michael Davis (37, Jamaica, NY) guilty of conspiring and attempting to engage in the sex trafficking of a minor. He faces a minimum mandatory…
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