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Two Kentucky real estate professionals pleaded guilty today for their roles in a conspiracy to rig bids at an estate auction for farmland and timber rights. According to a plea agreement filed today in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, Barry…
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Oscar Sun Acuna, Jr., 36, of Tucson, Arizona, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Additionally, Acuna forfeited a .40 caliber handgun and ammunition. Acuna previously pleaded guilty to the Distribution of Fentanyl Resulting in Death in…
Read More Arizona Man Gets 15 Years In Prison After Woman Dies From His Fentanyl
A North Dakota man has been charged in a criminal complaint with threatening to murder a United States official. According to court documents, on September 14, 2018, Robert Philip Ivers, 69, of West Fargo, North Dakota, was convicted by a federal jury of threatening to…
Read More North Dakota Man Charged With Threatening To Kill Federal Judge In Minnesota
Getting hurt at work is an unexpected occurrence, and it’s something few people are ever prepared for. With that in mind, you mightn’t know what to do after an accident at work if it ever happens. In the worst case scenario, you’ll need to make…
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Three Texas men have been sentenced to prison for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today. Marvin Charles Collins, 33; Aqunis Marquis Green, 23; and Antonio Thomas Foster, 21, all from the Houston area, each pleaded guilty on…
Read More Texas Men Sentenced To Federal Prison For ATM Burglaries
An Oklahoma man was sentenced Tuesday in federal court for shooting and killing his mother and wounding a second family member. U.S. District Judge Gregory K. Frizzell sentenced Christopher Leo Weeley, 42, to 24 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release.…
Read More Oklahoma Man Who Murdered His Mother, Injured Another Sentenced
A Virginia man pleaded guilty to conspiring to engage in dogfighting, and a Camp Springs, Maryland, man pleaded guilty today to advertising a dogfight on the internet. According to court documents, from at least May 2015 through August 2020, Derek Garcia, 41, Ricardo Thorne, 52,…
Read More Maryland And Virginia Man Plead Guilty In Dogfighting Conspiracy On “The DMV” Board
An Oregon couple known for distributing drugs was sentenced to federal prison today after they were linked to the overdose death of a man to whom they had sold drugs to for more than a year. Brian Joseph Ramos, 49, and Christine Marie Ramos, 41,…
Read More Oregon Husband And Wife Sentenced After Man Overdoses And Dies From Their Dope
Several rented vehicles returned by President Joe Biden’s Secret Service detail burned in the parking lot of the Nantucket Memorial Airport in Massachusetts on Monday morning, according to video obtained by the Nantucket Current. “A large car fire involving multiple rental vehicles at Nantucket Memorial…
Read More Five Of Biden’s Secret Service Rental Vehicles Burst Into Flames After He Left Nantucket
Ronnie Legette, an inmate at United States Penitentiary Hazleton, in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, has admitted to stabbing another inmate, killing him, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced. Legette, 39, pleaded guilty on Monday to one count of “Voluntary Manslaughter.” Legette admitted to stabbing Demario…
Read More West Virginia Inmate Admits To Stabbing Fellow Inmate In A “Heat Of Passion”