Defendant Sold Oxycodone From Smoke Shops on Tribal Land BILLY MIRANDA FLORES, 42, of Puyallup, Washington was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 20 years in prison in connection with a major drug distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. In February 2011, FLORES was convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Oxycodone, Read More »
Montgomery, Alabama – On February 23, 2012, Bernard Thomas pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute approximately two kilograms of cocaine powder and use of the mail in connection with the possession of the two kilograms of cocaine powder, announced United States Attorney George L. Beck, Jr. On January 17, 2012, United States Postal Read More »
Offender Call-in Meeting Set for Thursday CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Charleston Police Chief Brent Webster and United States Attorney Booth Goodwin, in collaboration with other federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, and West Side community development organizations today announced the launch of a Drug Market Intervention (DMI) initiative on Charleston’s West Side. DMI, which was Read More »
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Mark J. Cole, 31, of Huntington, was sentenced today to 70 months in prison by United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers for distribution of 28 grams or more of crack cocaine. Cole admitted that on November 24, 2010, he and an associate sold three bags of crack cocaine, each weighing slightly Read More »
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – A California man and woman pleaded guilty pleaded guilty today in federal court before United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers to felony oxycodone charges. Edwardo Manuell Forsythe, 38, and Hope Lanita Jackson-Forsythe, 41, both of Winchester, Calif., pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the possession with the intent to distribute a Read More »
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Mark J. Cole, 31, of Huntington, was sentenced today to 70 months in prison by United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers for distribution of 28 grams or more of crack cocaine. Cole admitted that on November 24, 2010, he and an associate sold three bags of crack cocaine, each weighing slightly Read More »
Lynette Lynn Chapman, 39, of Chugwater, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on February 16, 2012, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 57.6 grams of methamphetamine. Chapman self surrendered in Casper, Wyoming. She received 41 months of imprisonment, to be followed by four years of Read More »
Eric Christian Jones, 41, of Longmont, Colorado, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on February 21, 2012, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine. Jones was arrested in Cheyenne. He received Read More »
Testimony outlined murders and links to Gulf Cartel and Zetas LAREDO, Texas – The federal jury in Laredo, Texas, hearing the case of Gerardo Castillo-Chavez aka “Cachetes” aka Armado Garcia has just returned guilty verdicts on all counts, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Castillo-Chavez, 25, who hails from Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas, Mexico, was Read More »
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Three men pleaded guilty today in federal court before United States District Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr. to distribution of crack cocaine. Demetrius Levon Thomas, 24, Dennis James Brown, 20, both of Columbus, and, Justin Dwayne Clark, 33, of Logan County, each admitted to participating in a crack cocaine distribution scheme that Read More »
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