| Date |
Defendant |
Prosecutor |
Type |
Description |
8/31/04
|
PRESTON LEE WALKER
|
Michelle Englade
|
Sentencing
|
A 29-year-old Liberty man has been sentenced
to 70 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of
a firearm and felon in possession of body armor.
|
8/30/04
|
FORREST
DYESS, GLENN L. SMITH, and DAVID JONES
|
Alan Jackson
|
Fine
|
A plan to rid a land-owner's property of
feral hogs, has led to the death of at least four white-tail deer
and three turkey vultures and cost three East Texans over $7,000 each
in fines and restitution.
|
8/26/04
|
MICHAEL
L. HEROD
|
Robert Rawls
|
Guilty Verdict
|
A former Beaumont dentist was convicted by
a federal jury of healthcare fraud and mail fraud for swindling the
Texas Medicaid Program.
|
8/26/04
|
KIRK
JAMES LOUPEE
|
Allen Hurst and Tom Ferraro
|
Plea
|
A 40-year old Lone Star man pleaded guilty
today to a federal firearms violation in the Eastern District
of Texas before United States Magistrate Judge Caroline Craven.
|
8/24/04
|
FRANKIE LEE NORRIS
|
Lisa Flournoy
|
Sentencing
|
A 30-year-old Lufkin man has been sentenced
to 110 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of
a firearm.
|
8/24/04
|
DONALD
TARNAWA
|
Arnold Spencer and Andrew Stover
|
Guilty Verdict
|
A 46-year-old Frisco man has been found guilty
of 31 counts of wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering in a scheme
that costs investors about $12.5 million.
|
8/23/04
|
MICHAEL PAUL MacMILLIAN
|
Alan Jackson
|
Plea
|
A 34-year-old Hillsboro man pleaded guilty
today to possessing methamphetamine and a firearm while committing
a drug trafficking crime.
|
8/23/04
|
RICKEY LYNN WELCH
|
Ernest Gonzalez
|
Sentencing
|
A 49-year-old Paris, Texas, man has been
sentenced to 384 months in federal prison for his conviction on federal
drug trafficking and gun charges.
|
8/19/04
|
MICHAEL SHANE BITTICK
|
Ernest Gonzalez
|
Sentencing
|
A 32-year-old Sherman man has been sentenced
to 121 months in federal prison for receiving child pornography through
the Internet.
|
8/18/04
|
ROBERT L. MCDORMAN
|
Paul Naman
|
Sentencing
|
A 43-year old Lumberton man has been sentenced
to 33 months in federal prison for a used car scheme that cost local
banks millions of dollars.
|
8/12/04
|
BRIAN THOMAS HILL
|
Andy Williams and Terri Hagan
|
Guilty Verdict
|
A 44-year-old Flower Mound man was convicted
by a jury in Sherman today for possession of child pornography.
|
8/11/04
|
GEORGE KENNETH COTTON
|
Robert Rawls
|
Sentencing
|
A 24-year-old Nederland man has been sentenced
to 29 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography.
|
8/11/04
|
DAVID LAYNE FELLS
|
Randy Fluke
|
Sentencing
|
A 23-year-old Nederland man has been sentenced
to 18 months in federal prison for theft of military computers.
|
8/10/04
|
SERGIO RAMIREZ RODRIGUEZ
|
Tom Ferraro
|
Arraignment
|
A 31-year old Mt. Pleasant man was arraigned
today on charges of federal bank fraud in the Eastern District of
Texas.
|
8/10/04
|
BENJAMIN ELEZONDA BARRERA
|
Mary Ann Cozby
|
Sentencing
|
A 26-year-old Mineola, Texas man has been
sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for Distribution of Methamphetamine
and Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime
in the Eastern District of Texas.
|
8/10/04
|
BENJAMIN FRED CLARK
|
Allen Hurst
|
Sentencing
|
A 49 year-old Mt. Pleasant man has been sentenced
to 27 months in federal prison for two counts of Possession with Intent
to Distribute Methamphetamine.
|
8/10/04
|
ADRIN ANDRE COLEMAN
|
Allen Hurst and Jim Noble
|
Sentencing
|
A 26 year-old Longview man has been sentenced
to 27 months in federal prison for being a Felon in Possession of
a Firearm.
|
8/06/04
|
CASEY POTTERY COMPANY
|
Traci Kenner and Ruth Yeager
|
Plea
|
A pottery company headquartered in Marshall
has agreed to pay fines and restitution for violating federal Customs
laws that prohibit destroying or altering "country of origin" markings.
|
8/06/04
|
WANDA WYNETTE OWENS
|
Allen Hurst and Barry Bryant |
Sentencing
|
A 32 year-old Pittsburg, Texas, woman has
been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for Conspiracy to Possess
with the Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.
|
8/05/04
|
JOE VIDAL CASILLAS
|
Barry Bryant
|
Sentencing
|
A 51-year-old Pittsburg, Texas, man has been
sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for Conspiracy to Possess
with the Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.
|
8/04/04
|
ERIC LAMONT PETTIGREW
|
Jim Noble
|
Indictment
|
A federal grand jury has indicted a 28-year-old
Tyler man for committing federal drugs and firearms violations in
the Eastern District of Texas.
|
8/03/04
|
HERMAN GLENN CHAMBLISS
|
Lisa Flournoy
|
Sentencing
|
A 57-year-old Lufkin man has been sentenced
to 168 months in federal prison for distributing drugs to be used
in the manufacture of methamphetamine.
|
7/28/04
|
RAYMOND BYRON GOLLIHARE
|
Paul Naman
|
Sentencing
|
A Cold Springs, Texas, man was sentenced
to 30 months in federal prison today for using a computer to receive
child pornography through the internet.
|
7/27/04
|
ANTHONY LOUIS EATON
|
John B. Stevens, Jr.
|
Plea
|
A Reverend with an Arkansas Baptist Church has pleaded
guilty to illegally possessing an explosive device.
|
7/27/04
|
NOLAN LEE PATTERSON, JUDY LOUISE JACKSON, GERALD
HUNT, JIMMY LANE ROBERTS, JR.
|
Barry Bryant
Allen Hurst
|
Sentencing
|
Four East Texans were sentenced in Federal
Court by U.S. District Judge David Folsom today for various drug and
gun crimes.
|
7/27/04
|
ROY LUCE, JR.
|
Lisa Flournoy
|
Sentencing
|
A 33-year-old Lufkin man has been sentenced
to 60 months in federal prison for possession of a firearm during,
and in relation to, a crime of drug trafficking.
|
7/27/04
|
MICHAEL
KEITH HARRIS
|
Lisa Flournoy
|
Sentencing
|
A 25-year-old Lumberton man has been sentenced
to 77 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of
a firearm.
|
7/27/04
|
ALFONSO MENDEZ
|
Lisa Flournoy
|
Sentencing
|
A 29-year-old man, illegally residing in
Nacogdoches, has been sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for
being an Alien in Possession of a Firearm during, and in relation
to, a Drug Trafficking Crime.
|
7/26/04
|
JOHNNY FRANKLIN LEE
|
Lisa Flournoy
|
Sentencing
|
A 53-year-old Lufkin man has been sentenced
to 71 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of
a firearm.
|
7/26/04
|
RICHARD
ALLEN ESSARY
|
Robert Rawls
|
Sentencing
|
An East Texas man has been sentenced to federal
prison for swindling a Groves, Texas woman out of about $280,000.
|
7/23/04
|
|
BECKY GREGORY
|
Special Assignment
|
U.S. Attorney Matthew D. Orwig announced
today that First Assistant United States Attorney, BECKY GREGORY will
be departing for a five month special assignment in Washington, D.C.
as a Special Assistant working with the Office of Intelligence Policy
and Review (OIPR).
|
7/22/04
|
JAMES
HAROLD KING
|
Lisa Flournoy
|
Sentencing
|
A 46-year-old Lufkin man has been sentenced
to 110 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of
a firearm and possession of a firearm during, and in relation to,
a crime of drug trafficking.
|
7/22/04
|
DEANA HOOD LOWERY and ROBERT MICHAEL SMITH
|
Lisa Flournoy
|
Indictment
|
A Lufkin man and woman have been indicted
for conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine and possession of a
chemical used in the manufacture of methamphetamine.
|
7/20/04
|
Paris, Texas Drug Bust |
Tracey Batson
|
Arrests
|
At approximately 6:00 am, a combined task
force of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies began arresting
individuals involved in drug trafficking in Paris, Texas.
|
7/19/04
|
ELSWORTH BERTHELOT
|
Lisa Flournoy
|
Sentencing
|
A 46-year-old Lufkin man has been sentenced
to 198 months in federal prison under the Armed Career Criminal Statute.
|
7/19/04
|
CARL
KING
|
Arnold Spencer
|
Sentencing
|
A Dallas stockbroker and investment advisor
has been sentenced to eighty-four months in federal prison for mail
fraud violations.
|
7/16/04
|
SHANNON WAYNE AGOFSKY
|
John B. Stevens, Jr.
|
Verdict
|
A 33-year-old inmate of the United States
Penitentiary in Beaumont has been sentenced to the Death Penalty for
the beating death of a fellow inmate.
|
7/16/04
|
GARY DEWAYNE DENNINGTON and VAUGHN DUWAYNE HARMAN,
III
|
Robert Rawls
|
Sentencing
|
Two Texas inmates will go to federal prison
after completing their state sentences for a mail fraud scheme involving
the filing of fraudulent tax returns with state tax authorities across
the country.
|
7/16/04
|
CRAIG BUNDRANT
|
Michelle Englade
|
Sentencing
|
A 35-year-old man has been sentenced to 51
months in federal prison today for possession of child pornography.
|
7/15/04
|
SAUL BARRERA CRUZ
|
Reynaldo Morin
|
Plea
|
A Nacogdoches man has pleaded guilty to transporting
illegal aliens for private financial gain.
|
7/14/04
|
|
|
SECURITY MEETING
|
A joint Sabine-Neches Area Maritime Security
Committee (AMSC) and Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council (ATAC) meeting
was held on July 14, 2004 at the John Gray Center located on the campus
of Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.
|
7/14/04
|
KIRK JAMES LOUPEE, DAVID LEE COOPER,
and KIRK ANTHONY SIMON
|
Allen Hurst
|
Indictment
|
A federal grand jury has
returned indictments charging three men with multiple federal firearms
violations in separate cases in the Eastern District of Texas.
|
7/14/04
|
WILLIAM JEFFEREY FERGUSON
|
Lisa Flournoy
|
Indictment
|
A federal grand jury has
indicted a 41-year-old Lufkin man for committing federal firearm violations
in the Eastern District of Texas.
|
7/14/04
|
MICHAEL JOE ELLIS
|
Lisa Flournoy
|
Indictment
|
A federal grand jury has
indicted a 38-year-old Lufkin man for the armed heist of the Hibernia
National Bank last month in Lufkin.
|
7/14/04
|
KEVIN B. SEDDENS
|
Tom
Ferraro
|
Indictment
|
A federal grand jury has
superseded an indictment charging a Texarkana, Arkansas dentist for
defrauding the Texas Medicaid Program.
|
7/07/04
|
|
|
AWARD PRESENTATION
|
Five area lawmen have
each been awarded the prestigious Eagle Award from the U.S. Attorney's
Office.
|
7/06/04
|
DARLENE WHITTINGTON
|
Mary Ann Cozby
|
Sentencing
|
A Van Zandt woman has
been sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for manufacturing and
dealing methamphetamine.
|
7/06/04
|
TIMOTHY EARL BROWN and JERRY LYNN ALLEN
|
Allen Hurst
|
Plea
|
On Tuesday, two defendants
pleaded guilty to federal firearms violations that were committed
in the Eastern District of Texas.
|
6/30/04
|
CHARLES B. WAINWRIGHT
|
Andy Williams
|
Sentencing
|
A Flower Mound, Texas,
man who pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography was sentenced
to 33 months in federal prison today.
|
6/29/04
|
METHBUSTERS MULTIPLE DEFENDANTS
|
Maureen Smith, Bill Baldwin,
Ernest Gonzalez, Heather Rattan, Lisa Flournoy, Barry Bryant, Alan
Jackson, Michelle Englade
|
Indictments
|
Matthew D. Orwig, United
States Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas announced indictments
and arrests across East Texas, one day after the public announcement
of METHBUSTERS.
|
6/25/04
|
BECALO UTUK and IRIS BONILLA
|
Rey Morin
|
Plea
|
Two individuals associated
with a Lufkin medical supply company have pleaded guilty to defrauding
Medicare.
|
6/24/04
|
DARRYL RICHARDSON, DEON ANDRE LINDSEY,
TIMOTHY BRYAN JORDAN, JONATHAN MARK TAYLOR, JOSE LUIS LOPEZ VASQUE,
LELAND ALVIN PATTERSON
|
Barry Bryant
|
Sentencings
|
United States District
Judge David Folsom sentenced the following defendants in Federal Court
in Texarkana yesterday.
|
6/23/04
|
DAVID DEANE KOPP
|
Andy Williams
|
Sentencing
|
A 45-year-old McKinney
man was sentenced today to 37 months in federal prison for Internet
auction fraud.
|
6/22/04
|
STEPHEN RENE YOUNG
|
John B. Stevens, Jr,
|
Plea
|
A 55-year-old Orange,
Texas man has pleaded guilty to using a computer to entice a
minor to engage in sex.
|
6/22/04
|
BOBBY JOE GRIFFIN
|
Barry Bryant
|
Sentencing
|
A Hughes Springs, Texas,
man was sentenced to 92 months in federal prison today for using a
computer to entice a minor to engage in sex and possession of child
pornography.
|
6/22/04
|
MARTY LYNN GENNINGS
|
Barry Bryant
|
Sentencing
|
A 35-year-old Queen City,
Texas, man has been sentenced to 28 months in federal prison for possession
of an explosive device.
|
6/18/04
|
TOM LEE GOLIGHTLY, JR.
|
Jim Middleton
|
Initial Appearance
|
Federal charges have been
filed against a Palestine man who was arrested yesterday in Tyler
after authorities learned he was in possession on explosives.
|
6/18/04
|
ROCKY DEVURLE SHAW
|
Andy Williams
|
Sentencing
|
A 50-year-old Frisco man
was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme
to defraud a number of home buyers in the Dallas area.
|
6/17/04
|
PROJECT SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS NATIONAL
CONFERENCE
|
|
|
The national Project Safe
Neighborhoods (PSN) conference met this week in Kansas City, Missouri
and included a nine – person delegation from the Eastern District
of Texas.
|
6/15/04
|
DORA DIANE GANEY
|
Robert Rawls
|
Plea
|
A former Nederland resident
entered a plea of guilty to one felony count of embezzlement from
a federally insured credit union where she had been employed for twenty
years, most recently serving as its president.
|
6/15/04
|
MICHAEL LEE HENDERSON, JR.
|
Jim Middleton
|
Sentencing
|
A 26-year-old East Texas
man has been sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for robbing
a bank in Noonday, Texas almost three years ago.
|
6/15/04
|
BOBBY JOE WELCH
|
Mary Ann Cozby
|
Sentencing
|
A 27-year-old Whitehouse,
Texas man has been sentenced to 90 months in federal prison for committing
federal firearm and narcotics violations in the Eastern District of
Texas.
|
6/10/04
|
ROGER ALLEN CORMIER
|
Robert Rawls
|
Sentencing
|
An Orange man has been
sentenced to federal prison for mail theft as a result of his
taking undelivered mail from a mail collection box in front of the
Buna Post Office in May of 2003.
|
| 6/09/04 |
ANIETIE H. EDOHO-UKWA and UKWA H. EDOHO-UKWA |
Andrew Stover |
Plea |
Two North Texas brothers
have pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicare. |
| 6/08/04 |
MEL GENE MICKLES |
Robert Hobbs |
Sentencing |
A former corrections officer
has been sentenced to 168
months in federal prison for dealing drugs. |
| 6/08/04 |
TREVATHAN JABAR GLEEN, EMMITT ANDREWS
and CURTIS RAY DAVIS |
Lisa Flournoy |
Indictment |
PROJECT SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS
CREDITED
A federal grand jury in Tyler has returned
three separate indictments today for federal firearms violations in
the Eastern District of Texas. |
6/07/04
|
SERAFIN ARECHE
|
Bill Baldwin
|
Sentencing
|
A 44-year-old Dominican
Republic national convicted of cocaine distribution, has been sentenced
to 360 months in federal prison.
|
6/02/04
|
JULIA C. HARDY
|
Robert Rawls
|
Sentencing
|
A Beaumont woman was sentenced
Tuesday afternoon for forgery of a check as a result of an embezzlement
scheme from her church, St. Andrews Presbyterian Church of Beaumont.
|
5/27/04
|
LAMBERT RAY MYERS
|
Robert Rawls
|
Sentencing
|
A Winnie man has been
sentenced for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine
as a result of a Jefferson County Sheriff's Office traffic stop on
Green Pond Gulley Road in Jefferson County on January 18, 2003.
|
5/26/04
|
OPERATION CHILDSAFE
|
|
|
United States Attorney
Matthew D. Orwig announced today his endorsement of a nationwide program
to prevent accidental firearm-related injuries and deaths to children.
|
5/26/04
|
JEFFREY L. JACKSON and MICHAEL PETERS
|
Joe Batte
|
Plea/Sentencing
|
Two former managers of
the Huntsman Chemical Plant in Port Arthur, Texas, pleaded guilty
and were sentenced late yesterday to operating a tank containing hazardous
benzene waste in violation of the Clean Air Act.
|
5/25/04
|
JAMES EASON, ALLEN ALLDREDGE, DINA REYNOLDS,
JOHN GORDON, Jr., ANTHONY BRIAN MARTIN, STEPHEN LANCE RAYON, JERRY
GORE, ROBERT CLARK, CHARLES DEREK PHELPS, JASON LUKE WELBORN, GREGORY
WILSON |
Michelle Englade
|
Plea
|
Nine Southeast Texas residents
have pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges.
|
5/25/04
|
JOSE ERNESTO PENA and REUBEN AUGUSTO LEON
|
Randy Fluke
|
Sentencing
|
Two Florida men have been
sentenced for drug trafficking as a result of a Beaumont traffic
stop on I-10 in September, 2003.
|
5/24/04
|
OSAMA HAROON SATTI
|
Mary Ann Cozby
|
Plea
|
A 39-year-old Pakistani
man has pleaded guilty to being in possession of a firearm while illegally
in the United States.
|
5/21/04
|
LUIS ROMERO URBINA
|
Robert Hobbs
|
Plea
|
A 25-year-old citizen
of Belize has pleaded guilty to fraudulently introducing misbranded
drugs into interstate commerce.
|
5/21/04
|
JUDY VENABLE
|
Terri Hagan
|
Sentencing
|
A 55-year-old Denton woman
has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for embezzling over
$86,000 from four disabled veterans.
|
5/21/04
|
DEDRIC GERNARD FIELDS
|
Lisa Flournoy
|
Sentencing
|
A 25-year-old Nacogdoches
man has been sentenced to 111 months in federal prison for being a
felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm during,
and in relation to, a crime of drug trafficking.
|
5/21/04
|
WILLIAM BURNETT BROOKINS
|
Andy Williams
|
Plea
|
A 38-year-old McKinney
man pleaded guilty today to importing approximately 4,000 tablets
of ecstacy from Canada with the intent to distribute them in the Plano
area.
|
5/20/04
|
JIMMIE L. WOODARD
|
Malcolm Bales
|
Sentencing
|
A 55-year-old former accountant
for the Diboll Housing Authority has been sentenced to 5 months in
federal prison for embezzling over $78,000 in HUD funds over a five
year period.
|
5/20/04
|
LARRY WAYNE TESSEO
|
Rey Morin
|
Sentencing
|
A 33-year-old Crockett
man has been sentenced to 141 months in federal prison for armed bank
robbery and using a firearm during a crime of violence.
|
5/20/04
|
CHRISTOPHER LEE MADDEN
|
Andy Williams
|
Sentencing
|
A 38-year-old Frisco man
was sentenced to (1) one year probation and a $2,000 fine for making
a false statement on an application for a United States passport.
|
5/20/04
|
THAD W. THOMPSON
|
John Stevens
|
Plea
|
A 46-year-old Orange man
has pleaded guilty to the March 12, 2004, bank robbery of Bridge City
State Bank located at 1301 N. 16th Street in Orange.
|
5/20/04
|
KENNETH ROBERT ROBERTS
|
Barry Bryant
|
Plea
|
A 59-year-old Pittsburg,
Texas man has pled guilty to possession of child pornography.
|
5/20/04
|
GRANT AWARD NOTICE
|
|
|
Attorney General John
Ashcroft announced today that the Department of Justice is awarding
$6,793,000 to Texas to fund programs to prevent and respond to violence
against women.
|
5/19/04
|
RONNIE LEE HAMPTON
|
Allen Hurst
|
Sentencing
|
A 47-year-old East Texan
has been sentenced to 151 months in federal prison for drug trafficking.
|
5/19/04
|
LESLIE E. WOOD
|
Barry Bryant
|
Sentencing
|
A 34-year-old Dallas man
has been sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for conspiracy
to distribute methamphetamine.
|
5/19/04
|
KENNON BLACKSHIRE, RODNEY CATO, QUANTARIUS
INGRAM, CLEVELAND SANDERS, WILLIE WARE
|
Jim Middleton
|
Sentencing
|
The final defendants from
a crack distribution ring in the Carthage and Henderson area, have
been sentenced to prison today for various crimes related to the possession
and distribution of crack cocaine.
|
5/12/04
|
GRANT AWARD NOTICE
|
Mary Ann Cozby
|
|
Matthew D. Orwig, U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas is announcing the availability
of new grant funding through Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN),
a Department of Justice initiative.
|
5/06/04
|
JAMES NAPLES, FREDERICK DAY, GLENN FEEBACK,
PHILIP HAHN, GREGG PETTY, JOHN WHITE, LINDA VELVIN, CYNTHIA CAPPS,
SHANNON RICHARDSON, NEW BOSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL
|
Wes Rivers
|
|
Charges of federal racketeering
and health care fraud against a group of six Texarkana podiatrists,
a registered nurse, two employees and a hospital have been dismissed
by recommendation of prosecutors.
|
05/06/04
|
TIMOTHY EARL BROWN and JERRY LYNN ALLEN
|
Allen Hurst
|
Indictment
|
On Wednesday, the federal
grand jury returned an indictment charging two Carthage men with multiple
federal firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas.
|
05/05/04
|
ARMSTRONG, ARMSTRONG, LOWRY, ROBINSON,
WILLIAMS, PRATT, WARD, WRIGHT
|
Jaime Pena
|
Sentencing
|
Eight persons convicted
of illegal drug and firearms offenses in the Paris, Texas area, have
been sentenced to federal prison. U.S. District Judge Leonard
Davis imposed prison sentences today ranging from eighteen months
to 236 months.
|
5/04/04
|
WILLIAM KRAR and JUDITH BRUEY
|
Wes Rivers
|
Sentencing
|
A Smith County resident
has been sentenced to 135 months in federal prison for possessing
sodium cyanide, as well as other chemicals for the purpose of creating
a dangerous weapon.
|
5/03/04
|
ARMANDO RAZO VILLASANA
|
Allen Hurst
|
Sentencing
|
A 36-year-old Mexican
National has been sentenced to 97 months in federal prison for
drug trafficking.
|
5/03/04
|
JOSUE ENRIQUEZ-ESTRADA
|
Allen Hurst
|
Sentencing
|
A 24-year-old undocumented
Mexican national has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison
for being a criminal alien unlawfully in the United States after deportation.
|
4/29/04
|
GALYN WHITE
|
Lisa Flournoy
|
Verdict
|
A 30-year-old Pineland,
Texas man has been convicted of illegally possessing a firearm.
|
4/26/04
|
FABIAN ALEXANDER WILLIAMSON
|
Allen Hurst
|
Sentencing
|
A 26-year-old East Texan
has been sentenced to 188 months in federal prison for drug trafficking.
|
4/23/04
|
SAUL BARRERA-CRUZ
REGINO RIOS-LERMA
RODOLFO CASAREZ
OTIS ONEIL ROLAND
ELIZABETH ANN SHAW
STEVEN WOODARD
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Reynaldo Morin
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Indictment
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A combined task force
of federal, state and local law enforcement agents have begun arresting
individuals in East Texas suspected of transporting illegal
aliens for private financial gain.
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4/22/04
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MARY RUTH WEST
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Andy Williams
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Plea
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A 60-year-old Denton woman
has pleaded guilty today to four counts of tax fraud.
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4/21/04
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ROBERT L. MCDORMAN
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Paul Naman
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Plea
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A 43-year-old Lumberton
man has admitted to bank fraud in a used car scheme that cost local
banks several million dollars.
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4/16/04
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Michele Ratcliffe
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Appointment
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U.S. Attorney Matthew
D. Orwig announced today the appointment of MICHELE RATCLIFFE as an
Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) for the Eastern District of
Texas.
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4/16/04
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MARTEZ BROWN, JERRY BOB FOUTZ,
JEROME JODIE JIMMERSON, LESTER DELVECCHIO, and JOHN MICHAEL PELLUM
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Jim Middleton
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Sentencing
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Five individuals have
been sentenced to prison for various crimes related to the possession
and distribution of crack cocaine in the Carthage and Henderson areas.
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4/15/04
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DANNY GARCIA, JR. and GERONIMO
URQUIZA
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Bill Baldwin
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Sentencing
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Two members of the Tyler
area street gang, East Side Locos, have been sentenced to federal
prison after pleading guilty to gang-related crimes.
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4/12/04
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DAVID LAYNE FELLS, JR.
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Randall Fluke
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Plea
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A 23-year-old Beaumont
man has admitted to stealing military computers during U.S. Army deployments
at the Port of Beaumont.
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4/12/04
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JACK C. GILLIS, JR.
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Arnold Spencer
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Sentencing
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A lawyer from Plano has
been sentenced to 10 months incarceration and ordered to pay a $10,000
fine for bank fraud violations.
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4/08/04
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RON LEE MOSS, JR.
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Andy Williams
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Sentencing
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The President and CEO
of Petromerica Resources, based in Flower Mound and Denton, was sentenced
today in federal court in Sherman to serve a term of 24 months in
prison for defrauding some of the company's investors.
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4/08/04
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FRANKIE LEE NORRIS
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Lisa Flournoy
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Indictment
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A federal grand jury has
indicted a 30-year-old Lufkin, Texas man for committing federal firearms
violations in the Eastern District of Texas.
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4/06/04
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OSAMA HAROON SATTI
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Mary Ann Cozby
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Indictment
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A federal grand jury has
indicted a Pakistani man for possession of a firearm while illegally
in the United States.
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4/06/04
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VALENTIN DELEON, JR.
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Allen Hurst
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Indictment
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A 27 year-old Mission
man has been indicted for possessing and intending to distribute over
100 kilograms of marijuana.
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4/06/04
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WILLIAM JAMES EDMOND
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Allen Hurst
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Sentencing
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A 31 year-old Carthage,
Texas, man has been sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for being
a Felon in Possession of Ammunition.
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3/31/04
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BOSIE A. KENNEDY and JULIE A. KENNEDY
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Alan Jackson
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Sentencing
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A Cass County, Texas couple
have been sentenced to more than a year in federal prison for filing
a fraudulent tax return.
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3/30/04
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MICHAEL LEE HENDERSON
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Jim Middleton
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Plea
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A 26-year-old East Texas
man has pleaded guilty to robbing a bank in Noonday, Texas more than
two years ago.
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3/29/04
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THUY BICH DANG and KHAN PHAN
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Gregg Marchessault
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Plea
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A traffic stop in Panola
County last December has led to an Ohio woman pleading guilty to a
drug trafficking charge. Her co-defendant pleaded guilty to
Misprision of a Felony.
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3/29/04
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BILLY BOB DUNFIELD
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Andrew Williams
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Plea
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A 45-year-old Frisco,
Texas resident has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography.
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3/24/04
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ERIC MONROE CLIFFORD
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Gregg Marchessault
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Sentencing
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A 63-year-old Chapel Hill,
Texas man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for possessing
child pornography
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3/23/04
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CHRISTOPHER JAMES JOHNSON
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Allen Hurst
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Sentencing
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A 21-year-old East Texan
has been sentenced to 110 months in federal prison for drug trafficking.
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3/22/04
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GREGORY EUGENE SPENCE
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Bill Baldwin
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Sentencing
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A 40-year-old East Texan
has been sentenced to 235 months in federal prison for dealing methamphetamine.
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3/19/04
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LORENZO HOWARD
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Bill Baldwin
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Sentencing
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A leading member of the
Tyler area street gang, East Side Locos, has been sentenced to 1,582
months in federal prison.
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3/19/04
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JENNIFER SMITHA and MARTIN VERGARA
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Allen Hurst
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Sentencing
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Two defendants arrested
last August in a roundup of suspected drug dealers in Tyler and Smith
County have been sentenced to lengthy prison sentences.
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3/19/04
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MICHAEL CHARLES KELLY and MATTHEW
RAY WINN
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Gregg Marchessault
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Sentencing
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Two East Texans have been
sentenced to prison for separate acts of possessing child pornography.
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3/17/04
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THAD WALTON THOMPSON
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John Stevens
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Indictment
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A federal grand jury in
Beaumont has indicted a 46-year-old man for robbing a Bridge City
bank.
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3/11/04
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JAMES NAPLES
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Wes Rivers
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Indictment
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A group of
six Texarkana podiatrists, and a registered nurse have been indicted
on charges of federal racketeering and health care fraud. Additional
obstruction of justice charges have been filed against one of the
podiatrists and two of his assistants.
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3/04/04
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CORNELIUS DEION WALKER
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Jim Middleton
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Indictment
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A federal
grand jury in Tyler has indicted a 28-year-old Dallas man for the
October 2001 robbery of a Tyler Bank.
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Indictments and criminal informations
are formal accusations of criminal conduct, not evidence. Defendants
are presumed innocent unless and until convicted through due process
of law.
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