Two Drug Traffickers Sentenced to Seven Years’ Imprisonment
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Senior United States District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik has sentenced Marcus Holder, age 24, and Michael F. Bruce, age 23, both of Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, to seven years’ imprisonment on drug trafficking charges.
According to United States Attorney Peter J. Smith, the Criminal Information to whi.... |
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Mexican Alien Charged With Illegal Re-Entry Pennsylvania
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that a federal grand jury today returned an indictment charging an illegal alien from Mexico with alleged unlawful re-entry into the United States.
According to United States Attorney, Peter J. Smith, Cesar Hernandez-Aguilar a/k/a Glorimar Rivera-Davila, age 33, of Lackawanna County was charged by the.... |
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Supplier To Schuylkill County Drug Ring Pleads Guilty In Federal Court
The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that a 37-year-old former Allentown, Pennsylvania resident pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
According to United States Attorney Peter J. Smith, Hector Rivera admitted to assisting his brother Juan Rivera in distri.... |
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DR authorities open investigation for extortion against UK Biwater International
The Justice Ministry’s Anti-Corruption Department (DPCA) Hotoniel Bonilla Garcia , announced the investigation of alleged extortion in Dominican Republic against British companies based in the country Biwater International, and have subpoenaed Fulgencio Marcelo Abreu Villavizar.
Fulgencio Marcelo Abreu Villavizar will be questioning on Tuesday January 18th at at 9am.
The investigation be.... |
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Cat Burglar Luis Torres Indicted For Three Separate Break-ins of Manhattan Apartments
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced the indictment of LUIS TORRES, 50, for burglarizing apartments on the Upper West Side, Upper East Side, and in Midtown Manhattan. In addition to a large amount of jewelry and electronics, New York City Police Department detectives found more than 100 keys and cards in TORRES’s apartment at the time of his arrest. The defendant is c.... |
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STAMFORD MAN SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS
IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING
David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUT MUHAMMAD, also known as “Luke Muhammad,” “Lut Billie,” and “Lut Mohammad,” 36, of Stamford, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 240 months of imprisonment, followed by eight years of supervised release, for his role in a southwestern Connecticut narcoti.... |
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CITIZEN OF MEXICO LIVING IN STAMFORD
ADMITS REENTERING U.S. AFTER DEPORTATION
David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ANTELMO MOJICA ORTIZ, 48, a citizen of Mexico last residing in Stamford, pleaded guilty yesterday, December 20, before United States District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to one count of reentry of a removed alien.
According to court documents and statements made in court, in September 20.... |
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REACHES $335 MILLION SETTLEMENT TO RESOLVE ALLEGATIONS OF LENDING DISCRIMINATION BY COUNTRYWIDE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice today filed its largest residential fair lending settlement in history to resolve allegations that Countrywide Financial Corporation and its subsidiaries engaged in a widespread pattern or practice of discrimination against qualified African-American and Hispanic borrowers in their mortgage lending from 2004 through 2008.
The settlement provides $335 m.... |
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FOURTEEN CITIZENS OF ROMANIA CHARGED
WITH PARTICIPATING IN INTERNET PHISHING SCHEME
David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kimberly K. Mertz, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced the unsealing of an indictment charging 14 Romanian citizens with conspiracy, fraud and identity theft offenses stemming from their alleged participation in an extensive Internet “phishing” scheme.
A phishing scheme.... |
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CITIZEN OF MEXICO SENTENCED TO 30 MONTHS IN PRISON
FOR ILLEGALLY REENTERING THE U.S. FOLLOWING HIS DEPORTATION
David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RAMIRO FLORES MORENO, 44, a citizen of Mexico recently residing in New Britain, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in Bridgeport to 30 months of imprisonment for illegally reentering the United States following his deportation.
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N.H. teen dies following Merritt Parkway crash in Stamford
STAMFORD -- A New Hampshire teen who crashed his vehicle into a tree off the Merritt Parkway in Stamford on Thursday died early Friday from the injuries he sustained in the accident, according to Stamford Hospital officials.
Hospital spokesman Scott Orstadt said Branden Myers,19, of Chester, N.H., died at approximately 5:30 a.m. Friday.
It took nearly one hour on Thursday morning for emerg.... |
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Rasmussen: 60% Think Federal Government Encourages Illegal Immigration as AZ sheriff targeted
Voters continue to believe strongly that the federal government’s actions are encouraging illegal immigration even as the Obama administration announces bias charges against a popular Arizona sheriff for his anti-immigration efforts. Also this week, the U.S. Supreme Court sped up its review of the Justice Department’s legal challenge of state laws aimed at stopping illegal immigration.
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VENEZUELA TO SEND DRUG KINGPIN TO U.S.
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela will extradite one of the region's most-wanted drug traffickers to the United States on Thursday, a Venezuelan government source said.
Maximiliano Bonilla Orozco, a 39-year-old Colombian who had a $5 million bounty on his head and was better known by his alias Valenciano, was captured in the central Venezuelan city of Valencia late last month.
His arrest had b.... |
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STAMFORD MAN SENTENCED TO 30 MONTHS
IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR DISTRIBUTING COCAINE
David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LORENZO JONES, also known as “Bubba Bean,” 48, of Ludlow Street, Stamford, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for his role in a narcotics trafficking ring.
This matter stems from “O.... |
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Norena Correa Sentenced 10-Years In Manhattan
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOHN FREDY NORENA-CORREA, a high-ranking member of the narcotics trafficking organization led by Colombian drug kingpin Francisco Gonzalez Uribe, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 10 years in prison. NORENA-CORREA, 40, pled guilty on September 2, 2011, to conspiring to import and .... |
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