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The Honorable Jon S. Tigar, U.S. District Judge, handed down the sentence earlier today.

Mitchell, 45, of Antioch, pleaded guilty to the charge on August 16, 2019. According to his plea agreement, Mitchell admitted to possessing and…

U.S. District Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr., sentenced Bryan Boley, 33, to concurrent sentences of 22 months imprisonment and three years of supervised release on six access-device-fraud charges. He was also ordered to pay a $1000 fine. The…

After deliberating for two hours, following a three-day trial, the jury convicted 27-year old Daniel J. Zulawski of attempted online enticement of a minor. According to testimony at trial, Zulawski traveled from Lexington to Frankfort after…

Kerry Adams, 59, was indicted on one count each of receipt of child pornography, possession of child pornography and distribution of child pornography. Adams was arrested and charged by criminal complaint in Oct. 17, 2018, and has been in…

Wendy Long, 49, of Charleston, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for access device fraud. The Court also imposed a three year term of supervised release and ordered Long to pay restitution in the amount of $292,409.37. Long had…

The 11-count Indictment named Mario Mondesir, age 35, of Elmhurst, NY and Forkpa Howard, age 30, of Philadelphia, PA as defendants.

According to the Indictment, Mondesir and Howard conspired with each other to…

Schmidt previously pled guilty to the indictment, which was returned in November of 2018, and which alleged that SCHMIDT stole more than $550,000 from a local architectural firm while employed as a bookkeeper there.

Schmidt admitted in…

Facts presented to the court showed BRB hired Grisel on December 23, 2013, to be a national dumpster salesperson. He later became an IT manager. As the IT manager, he was responsible for BRB’s computer hardware, phone systems and servers,…

Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger for the Eastern District of Virginia, and Special Agent in Charge Matthew S. Miller of the U.S. Secret Service’…

JOILES and a co-defendant, JAIME ROSARIO JR., are also charged with participating in a conspiracy to traffic methamphetamine, fentanyl, and cocaine, and ROSARIO is charged with possessing firearms in connection with a drug trafficking offense…

The study, Protecting America’s Schools: A U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Targeted School Violence, identifies 41 incidents of attacks against K-12 schools…

To date, the collaborative effort has resulted in 23 defendants being convicted of charges related to the distribution of methamphetamine and firearms possession in Southwest Virginia and North Carolina.

“As this case indicates, we are…

Chief U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr. also ordered Spann to pay $399,723.04 in restitution to Tower Loan and Walmart Global Investigations. In addition to his term of imprisonment, Judge Hicks sentenced Spann to five years of…

U.S. District Judge Annemarie Axon sentenced CINDY MADISON, 55, to 33 months in prison for wire fraud. Madison pled guilty in May to one count of wire fraud.

“This defendant abused the trust of her employer,” Town said. “This sentence…

According to court records, in September 2018, Thomas Stewart, 31, uploaded numerous images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct to a Dropbox cloud storage account he controlled. After Dropbox reported the uploading of child…