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| Date | Defendant | Prosecutor | Type | Description |
| 3/29/07 | MICHELLE SUSAN MCKAY | Mary Ann Cozby | Sentence | A 36-year-old Burleson, Texas woman has been sentenced to 77 months in federal prison for drug violations in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 3/29/07 | KIETH FRANKLIN SHELTON | Jim Noble | Sentence | A 50-year-old Chicago, Illinois man has been sentenced to 34 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 3/29/07 | ANURA ANDRADI and DOCTOR’S AMBULANCE SERVICE, LLC | Katherine Miller and Terri L. Hagan | Guilty | A 47-year-old Forney man and his ambulance company have been found guilty of health care fraud in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 3/23/07 | RYAN JAMES EFF | Malcolm Bales and Lisa Flournoy | Sentence | A 33-year-old Kennard firefighter has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for setting arson fires in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 3/20/07 | CARL GREEN MORGAN | Gregg A. Marchessault | Plea | A 37-year-old Longview man has pleaded guilty to money laundering charges in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 3/20/07 | IVAN DANIEL | William Baldwin and Denise Simpson | Sentence | A 38-year-old Florida man has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for drug violations in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 3/16/07 | JOHN JEFFREY ORTEGA, ERIC KEITH OFFORD, GILBERTO DEMETRIO CARDENAS, DARRELL D. MICKEY, JUAN ONTIVEROS, LINDA MICHELLE JOHNSON, THURMAN QUINCY SKAINS, III, PAULA DEMARICE McGILL, BRIAN KEITH AKERS, RAUL SANTIAGO SANDOVAL-GUZMAN | Joshua Burgess, Stevan A. Buys, Maureen Smith, Andrew Stover, Samuel W. Cantrell | Indictments | A federal grand jury has returned 10 indictments this week on separate cases of federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 3/13/07 | GODOLFREDO YERA GUZMAN, and GODOLFREDO JUNIOR GUZMAN | Robert L. Hobbs | Plea | A California man and his son have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute more than 150 kilograms of cocaine in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 3/08/07 | ARTIS ANDERSON | Traci L. Kenner | Sentencing | An Easton man has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $828,092 in restitution for federal health care fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 3/08/07 | EFREM GAMEZ, BRANDY ROGERS | William Baldwin and Mary Ann Cozby | Sentencing | One women and one man have been sentenced to federal prison for drug violations in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 3/08/07 | BRADLEY WAYNE SHAW, PEDRO ZUNIGA | Richard Moore | Sentencing | Two Gregg County residents have been sentenced for federal drug and firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 3/08/07 | ALEXIS BERNARD TERRY | Michelle S. Englade and Robert L. Hobbs | Indictment | A 34-year-old Port Arthur man was indicted late yesterday in connection with a fatal carjacking in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 3/07/07 | MARCELLUS-JON ROWRY | Robert L. Hobbs | Indictment | A 27-year-old Port Arthur man was indicted today in connection with three bank robberies in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 3/07/07 | TERRANCE LAMICHAEL CANADY | Michelle S. Englade | Indictment | A federal grand jury has returned an indictment today charging a 25-year-old Beaumont man with carjacking crimes in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 3/07/07 | LORETTA TURNER | John A. Craft | Indictment | A 46-year-old Cleveland, Texas woman was indicted today on charges of hurricane related fraud in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 3/07/07 | WESLEY ADAM TAYLOR | Alan R. Jackson | Plea | A 24-year-old Mineola man has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 3/07/07 | DONALD RAY BURNS | William Baldwin | Plea | A 47-year-old New Boston, Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal drug violations in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 3/06/07 | ARDEE VAUGHN SETTLE, PAUL MILES, MICHAEL HEINSOHN, ARTURO CRUZ-ROJAS, BILLY D. JACKSON, REAMEKA FRAZIER, JASON ALLEN HIXON, MARTIN ALBARRAN LOPEZ, ALEJANDRO PEREZ | Lisa Flournoy, Allen Hurst, Jim Middleton, Richard Moore | Indictments | A federal grand jury has returned six indictments this week on separate cases of federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 3/1/07 | LARRY PUGH | Alan Jackson and Wes Rivers | Sentencing | A 33-year-old former Jacksonville police officer has been sentenced to 144 months in federal prison on charges of civil rights violations and retaliating against a witness in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/28/07 | CALISA G. SHIRLEY | Robert L. Hobbs | Sentencing | A 29-year-old Indiana woman has been sentenced to 136 months in federal prison for drug violations in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/27/07 | JAIME LONG | William Baldwin and Mary Ann Cozby | Plea | A 26-year-old Tyler man has pleaded guilty to federal drug violations the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/27/07 | KEVIN TRACY WISEMAN | Reynaldo P. Morin | Sentencing | A 46-year-old Tennessee Colony man has been sentenced to 180 months in federal prison for manufacturing child pornography in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/26/07 | Salvador Yanez Ruiz, Teodoro Antunes Ortuno, Blanca Estella Cantu, Maria Del Rasario Orosco, Gustavo Antunez Orosco, Toby Gonzales, Cosme Rejinaldo Gonzalez, Rosa Maria Gonzalez, Lisa Marie Charbonneau, Bruce Bryan Baxter, Jesse Daniel Bakos, Andy Taylor McCullough, John Vincent McCormack, Frances Ory Cohen, Lauren Olivia Tyler, Amy Marie Rodriguez, Krisztian Endre Lantos, J. Hunter Minikes, Rachel Marie Long, Blake Bethea Bradshaw, Michael Patrick Finnegan, Michael Allen Kamin, David Noble Holt, Michael Eugene Rice, Tristan Stewart Lebeau, Gregory Alan Farrar, Russell Louis Hamner, Christopher Dion Benetis, Jason Anthony Meyer, Reymundo Antunez Araujo, Katie Sue Cozby, Stephen Marcus Dueboay, Jr., Adam Ray Watts | Arrests | A combined task force of more than 100 federal, state, and local law enforcement agents began arresting individuals involved in drug trafficking in Collin and Dallas Counties in the Eastern District of Texas. | |
| 2/22/07 | DEBORAH W. CARTER | Alan R. Jackson | Plea | A 50-year-old Gilmer woman has pleaded guilty in a stolen mail case in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/22/07 | ESTEBAN ROBLEZ SOLIS, JR., LEROY RODRIGUEZ, JR., ANDRES SAENZ REYNA, BILLY DEAN DRIGGERS, HUNTER QUIN TILLERY, ERIC CHAD AARON | Richard L. Moore | Arrests | A combined task force of federal, state and local law enforcement agents has begun arresting individuals involved in a major methamphetamine ring in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/21/07 | ROB ROY ROBINSON | Sarah Wannarka and Robert Hobbs | Plea | A 52-year-old Kountze man has pleaded guilty to soliciting sex from an underage child in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/20/07 | ALI VAGEFI | Gregg A. Marchessault | Plea | A 61-year-old Tyler man has pleaded guilty to child exploitation charges in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/20/07 | JEFFREY SCOTT RAY | Gregg A. Marchessault | Plea | A 47-year-old Nacogdoches man has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/20/07 | RANDY HUTTO | Sarah Wannarka | Plea | A 26-year-old Spurger man has pleaded guilty to soliciting sex from an underage child in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/16/07 | SHERRI HARRIS | Dave Henderson | Arraigned | A 37-year-old Dayton woman was arraigned today on charges of hurricane related fraud in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/16/07 | ANTHONY MICHAEL MIHALEY | Gregg A. Marchessault | Plea | A 45-year old Tyler man has pleaded guilty to failing to register as a sex offender in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/16/07 | JAVIER RODRIGUEZ-LOPEZ, ALFREDO CORTEZ-PADILLO, JOSE PADRON-GOMEZ, GABRIEL KIAN AFKHAMI, ANQUIONE QUENNEL McCUIN, MICHAEL SHAW HIGGINS, RACHEL LYNN NADEAU, DARNELL IIMON HARPER, GREGORY DARNELL AKINS, GARY LYNN HARRISON, MARVIN HARRIS, JESSIE TAYLOR, RODRIGO HERRERA, SANDRA BUCHOLTZ, MICHAEL VAN DAVIS II, KIMBERLY RAGSDALE, JAVIER RODRIGUEZ-HERRERA, FERNANDO ORTEGA-CORRAL, ROBERTO ONTIVERAS-GOMEZ, ARNOLD CALING MATTA, JAMES MICHAEL FRITZ, KIMBERLY CHERRI CARSON, ARLEN K. MARWEG, MARY JOLENE MARWEG, FILEMON GARCIA-PAREDO, REYES-FIGUEROA, VICTOR GARCIA-GARCIA, JULIO GALLARDO, STEPHEN RAY RIVKIN | Michele A. Ratcliffe, Samuel Cantrell, Andy Williams, Ernest Gonzalez, Andrew Stover, Stevan Buys, Randall Blake, Maureen Smith | Indictments | A federal grand jury has returned indictments this week charging 28 defendants with various federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/15/07 | PAUL MICHAEL HORTON | Jim Middleton | Plea | A 43-year-old Jacksonville, Texas man has pleaded guilty to being a methamphetamine user in possession of explosives in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/15/07 | LATORRANCE DAMON JACKSON | Alan Jackson and Denise Simpson | Sentencing | A 28-year-old Marshall man has been sentenced to 120 months in federal prison on a charge of possession of a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/15/07 | KENNETH EARL McBRYDE | Randall L. Fluke, Jennifer Lowery, and Robert Hobbs | Sentencing | A 34-year-old Beaumont man was sentenced for drug trafficking and money laundering in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/15/07 | BRIAN KEITH DRINNON, RALPH NOLAN DOSS, JOSE ANGEL TREVINO | Josh Burgess | Sentencing | Three men have been sentenced to federal prison for separate violations in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/13/07 | RAMON GUILLERIMO PENA | Richard L. Moore | Plea | A 26-year-old Longview man has pleaded guilty today to federal drug charges in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/13/07 | RALPH RICHARD BOERNER | Wes Rivers and Arnold Spencer | Sentencing | A 55 year-old Florida man has been sentenced to 71 months in federal prison for mail fraud in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/12/07 | CLYDE THOMAS PARRISH | Alan Jackson and Wes Rivers | Sentencing | A 56-year-old Athens, Texas man has been sentenced to six months in federal prison for misprision of a felony in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/12/07 | RICHARD BOB PORTER | Josh Burgess | Sentencing | A 59 year-old Sulphur Springs man has been sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/12/07 | RAYFORD McKINNEY | Jim Middleton | Sentencing | A 55 year-old Henderson man has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for federal firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/08/07 | BENNIE FRANK PARRISH | Jim Noble | Sentencing | A 58-year-old former Palestine, Texas police officer has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/08/07 | WENDELL “Chip” RADFORD, JR. | Arnold Spencer, Malcolm Bales, and Robert L. Rawls | Plea | A former Jefferson County Assistant District Attorney pleaded guilty today to federal charges in a complex mail fraud scheme in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/07/07 | CRAIG PIPPS | Robert Hobbs | Sentencing | A 33-year-old Vidor man was sentenced today to 92 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/07/07 | GARY WILLIAMS TRICE | Denise Simpson | Indictment | A federal grand jury has indicted a 36-year-old Texarkana man for fraud related to hurricane relief in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 2/07/07 | DARRELL DEWAYNE HAMPTON, JUSTIN JAVIER GONZALES, JOSE A. PEREZ, ROBERTO GONZALEZ, JOSE LUIS CASTRO-RAMIREZ | Jim Middleton, Mary Ann Cozby, Richard L. Moore, Jim Noble, Allen Hurst | Indictments | A federal grand jury has returned five indictments this week on separate cases of federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 1/26/07 | LARRY LIPPMAN | Malcolm Bales | Plea | A 66-year-old Eagle Lake, Texas man has pleaded guilty to embezzling from a HUD-funded apartment complex in Nacogdoches in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 1/25/07 | FREDDY EARL PETERS | Robert L. Rawls | Plea | A former Jasper County Constable has pleaded guilty to a one-count indictment charging him with possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute the drug in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 1/25/07 | MANUEL ESCOBAR, JACINTO MARTINEZ, JEFF ATTAWAY, DAVID BRANCH, and TORIBIA GLORIA MEDINA | William Baldwin and Mary Ann Cozby | Sentencing | A woman and four men have been sentenced to federal prison for drug violations in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 1/25/07 | JABARIAN GACOBE ELAM | Michelle S. Englade | Sentencing | A 20-year-old Silsbee, Texas man was sentenced today to more than 12 years in prison for federal drug and gun charges in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 1/24/07 | JOHN TOBY WALKER | Randall L. Fluke | Sentencing | A 27-year-old Lumberton man was sentenced for possessing and distributing child pornography in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 1/24/07 | DARAYMOSS LISTER | Lisa Flournoy | Sentencing | A 24-year-old Center, Texas, man has been sentenced to 77 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 1/24/07 | GREGORY LAMAR CHAPMAN, FERNANDO VALDEZ, JR., FILADELFO GONZALEZ, ELVIN AQUILAR, KENNETH ROSE | Barry Bryant | Sentencing | Five defendants were sentenced for federal drug violations in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 1/23/07 | RICARDO FERNANDEZ-MANZO | Michele A. Ratcliffe | Sentencing | A 26-year-old Plano man has been sentenced today for receipt and distribution of child pornography in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 1/23/07 | HUGO MARTIN ALVAREZ-AGUILERA, RAMIRO MATEO-ROJAS, and JOSE LEONSIO FLORES-GRANADOS | Michele A. Ratcliffe | Sentencing | Three men have been sentenced for being illegal aliens in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 1/17/07 | ROUNDUP | Ernest Gonzalez | Roundup | A combined task force of federal and state law enforcement agents has begun arresting individuals involved in drug trafficking in Collin and Dallas Counties. |
| 1/16/07 | ROBERT WAYNE JOHNSON & JAMAAL AKEEM BENJAMIN | Randy Fluke | Plea | Two Jefferson County men have pleaded guilty to separate federal firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 1/11/07 | SAUL ZAMORA MUNOZ | Jim Middleton | Plea | A 33-year-old Smith County resident has pleaded guilty to federal charges in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 1/11/07 | JEFFREY DEAN PIERCE, CRECENCIO GONZALEZ-CRUZ | Josh Burgess | Sentencing | Two Dallas men were sentenced for separate federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 1/11/07 | RONALD GREG NULL, THOMAS JEAN HILL, RENELL GRACE PAYNE, STEVEN MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ, HOLLY BURHAM, TIFFANY TREADWAY | Mary Ann Cozby, Richard L. Moore | Sentencing | Six individuals were sentenced today in two separate federal cases filed in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 1/11/07 | KENNETH DEAN MAYES, JAMES THEODORE WATSON, AMY JOY BARNETT, RICHARD GIOVANNI SESMA, JOSHUA LEE BRADFORD, ROBERTO RIVERA-PENA, . | Stevan Buys, Randall Blake, Maureen Smith, Michele A. Ratcliffe | Indictments | A federal grand jury returned numerous indictments late Wednesday charging 6 defendants in separate cases of federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 1/10/07 | ANTHONY MICHAEL MIHALEY, ROSS JONES, EMILE JAMAL MARTIN, MICHAEL SHAWN SMITH, KIMBERLY ANN QUINN, BRANDON KEITH GODWIN, CHRISTOPHER DAVID MILES, CESARIO GUILLEN, LUIS GENARO GUILLEN, MAYRA BELEN HERNANDEZ-MOLINA, JUAN RAMIREZ-SUAREZ, aka JOSE ROBERTO OLGUIN-SAN AUGUSTIN | Gregg Marchessault, Lisa Flournoy, Denise Simpson, Allen Hurst | Indictments | A federal grand jury has returned numerous indictments this week charging 11 defendants in separate cases of federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 1/9/07 | RUFUS DELANTE MCCLELLAND, JR. | Randall L. Fluke | Plea | A 30-year-old Beaumont man has pleaded guilty to federal firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 1/9/07 | PAMELA GWEN GREEN | Randall L. Fluke | Plea | A 48-year-old Port Arthur woman has pleaded guilty to federal charges in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 1/9/07 | GARY KIM YOUNG | Randall L. Fluke | Sentencing | A 47-year-old Nederland man has been sentenced to 97 months in federal prison for child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 1/4/07 | COREY DEWAYNE FISHER, JASMEON DECOLE O’QUINN, DAVID ANDRES DURAN-BELTRAN | Richard L. Moore, and Allen Hurst | Sentencing | Three men were sentenced today in separate federal cases filed in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 1/4/07 | JOSHUA ALLEN | Gregg A. Marchessault | Plea | A 23-year-old Jacksonville man has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 1/3/07 | THOMAS LYNN EDWARDS | Mary Ann Cozby | Plea | A 55-year-old Bullard man has pleaded guilty to federal drug charges in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 1/3/07 | ROBERT BRAMMER | Gregg A. Marchessault | Plea | A 33-year-old Lufkin man has pleaded guilty to production of material involving the sexual exploitation of minors in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 1/3/07 | LARRY WAYNE LEWIS | Jim Noble | Sentencing | A 45-year-old Mt. Pleasant man has been sentenced for federal firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas. |
| 1/3/07 | ERNEST CHARLES STINSON, JR. | Richard Moore | Plea | A 28-year-old Longview man has pleaded guilty to federal drug charges in the Eastern District of Texas. |
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are presumed innocent unless and until convicted through due process
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