Albuquerque, NM - Albuquerque Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Heroin Trafficking Charge

Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico

Ramon Phillip Baca, 44, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to a heroin trafficking charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Baca will be sentence... More...   $0 (05-04-2016 - NM)

Albuquerque, NM - Arizona Woman Pleads Guilty to Federal Heroin Trafficking Charge in New Mexico

Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.

Traci Marie Salinas, 30, of Phoenix, Ariz., pleaded guilty in Albuquerque, N.M., to a federal heroin trafficking charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s O... More...   $0 (04-29-2016 - NM)

Las Cruces, NM - Prior Felon from Roswell Pleads Guilty to Violating Federal Narcotics and Firearms Laws

Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico

Javier Madrid, 28, of Roswell, N.M., pleaded guilty in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to violating the federal narcotics trafficking and firearms laws under ... More...   $0 (04-27-2016 - NM)

Albuquerque, NM - Farmington Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Heroin Trafficking Charges - Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico

Allen Goossen, 30, of Farmington, N.M., pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to heroin trafficking charges. The guilty plea was entered without the benefit of a plea agre... More...   $0 (04-20-2016 - NM)

On July 11, 2013, Officer Gregory Hosterman of the Evansville Police
Department was dispatched to an apartment to investigate a report of a
burglary. When Officer Hosterman arrived, he found the front door ajar and
the first-floor window adjacent to the front door broken. Suspecting a burglary
had occurred, he requested assistance to conduct a protective sweep of the
res... More...   $0 (04-18-2016 - IN)

Albuquerque, NM - Albuquerque Woman Sentenced for Conviction Arising Out of Armed Robbery of Retail Pharmacy in January 2015

Pharmacy Robbery Cases Prosecuted Under HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico & Federal “Worst of the Worst” Anti-Violence Initiative

Josephine Duran, 24, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced in federal court to 57 months ... More...   $0 (04-18-2016 - NM)

Albuquerque, NM - U.S. Citizen Residing in Mexico Pleads Guilty to Federal Heroin Trafficking Charges in New Mexico

Vicenta Ramona Garcia, 29, a U.S. citizen, who resides in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, Mexico pleaded guilty this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to heroin trafficking charges under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s office.

Garcia and her c... More...   $0 (04-18-2016 - NM)

The defendant, Victor O., appeals from the trial court’s denial of his motion to correct an allegedly illegal sentence, which was imposed upon his conviction of, inter alia, sexual assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes (Rev. to 2001) § 53a-70 (a) (2), as amended by Public Acts 2002, No. 02-138, § 5 (P.A. 02-138).1 He claims that the trial court improperly failed to sentence... More...   $0 (04-16-2016 - CT)

Albuquerque, NM - Albuquerque Man Sentenced to Prison for Conviction Arising Out of Robbery of Retail Pharmacy in August 2014

Defendant Prosecuted Pursuant to Federal “Worst of the Worst” Anti-Violence Initiative and The HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico

Roy Christopher, 29, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced to 41 months in prison followe... More...   $0 (04-10-2016 - NM)

Honduran National Pleads Guilty to Illegally Reentry

U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ORLI DAGOBERTO ARGUETA-SANCHEZ, a/k/a Orli Dagoberto Argueta, age 27, a citizen of Honduras, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information for illegal reentry of removed alien.

According to the Bill of Information, on or about January 6, 2016, ARGUETA-SANCHEZ was found in th... More...   $0 (04-06-2016 - LA)

Salt Lake City, UT - Checora Sentenced to 60 Months in Federal Prison for Voluntary Manslaughter Conviction

Grant Hubert Checora, age 23, of Ft. Duchesne, who pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter while within Indian Country in January, will serve 60 months in federal prison. Checora will be on supervised release for 36 months once he finishes his prison sentence.

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We review a sentence for reasonableness, applying “a deferential abuse-of-discretion standard.” Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 41 (2007). Where, as here, the defendant alleges no significant procedural error, we consider the substantive reasonableness of the sentence to determine whether the court abused its discretion in determining that the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) (2012) factors supported the... More...   $0 (04-03-2016 - NC)

During the early morning hours of March 11, 1991, a towel draped over the front door
of Shannon Jackson’s apartment caught fire. The towel had been placed there purposefully
for privacy, as covering the windows at the top of the door prevented bypassers from seeing
up the interior stairwell just beyond the door. That night, Jackson was at home and upstairs
with her and Isaac’s tw... More...   $0 (04-01-2016 - MS)

New Orleans, LA - Mexican National Pleads Guilty to Immigration Offense

BERNARDO RAMIREZ-VARGAS, age 33, a native of Mexico, pled guilty today to a one-count Indictment charging him with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1326(a).

According to court documents, RAMIREZ-VARGAS was previously removed from the United States on Ju... More...   $0 (03-31-2016 - LA)

Imagine a fictional Florida county—I’ll call it Marshall County—with a total census population of 12,000. Marshall County is run by a board of commissioners comprised of five peo-ple, each of whom is elected from a single-member district with a total census population of exactly 2,400. The Marshall County School Board, which also has five members, uses the same district lines. Case 4:15-cv-00131-M... More...   $0 (03-24-2016 - FL)

Albuquerque, NM - Espanola Man Pleads Guilty to Violating Federal Narcotics Trafficking Laws

Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico

Matthew Martinez, 38, of Espanola, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a heroin trafficking charge.

Martinez was arrested on De... More...   $0 (03-21-2016 - NM)

Albuquerque, NM - Albuquerque Man Sentenced to Seven Years for Stealing Prescription Painkillers and Brandishing Firearm During Robbery of Retail Pharmacy

Defendant Prosecuted Under HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico

Eddie Gallegos, 39, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced in federal court for his conviction on theft of medical products and f... More...   $0 (03-10-2016 - NM)

Albuquerque, NM - Albuquerque Man Sentenced to Seven Years for Stealing Prescription Painkillers and Brandishing Firearm During Robbery of Retail Pharmacy

Defendant Prosecuted Under HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico

Eddie Gallegos, 39, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court for his conviction on theft of medical products... More...   $0 (03-10-2016 - NM)

Albuquerque, NM - California Man Pleads Guilty to Heroin Trafficking Charge in New Mexico

Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.

Raul Fernandez, Jr., 29, of Simi Valley, Calif., pleaded guilty today to a heroin trafficking charge in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., under a plea agreement with the... More...   $0 (03-04-2016 - NM)

On January 16, 2007, Moreno pled guilty to attempted assault in the second
degree in violation of Conn. Gen. Stat. § 53a‐60.  Neither the description of the
charge at the plea colloquy nor the judgment of conviction identified which of
that statute’s six subsections applied to his conduct.3  The only evidence in the
2 Moreno also argues that the district court erred by treati... More...   $0 (02-26-2016 - NY)

On January 8, 2014, the chief of police of Mitchell, Nebraska, Michael Cotant, recognized a green, Chevy pickup truck (with a “14 County, Nebraska” license plate) parked in the driveway of George Valles’ home on Center Avenue in Mitchell. Chief Cotant had previously seen the Chevy on several occasions Cotant “ran” the Chevy’s license plate number, he learned that it was registered to Lowery and an... More...   $0 (02-23-2016 - NE)

Santa Fe, NM - Rio Arriba County Man Sentenced to Five Years for Federal Heroin Trafficking Conviction

Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico

Eugene Vigil, 37, of Truchas, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Santa Fe, N.M., to 60 months in prison followed by four years of supervised ... More...   $0 (02-18-2016 - NM)

Santa Fe, NM - Resident Alien from Mexico Sentenced to 70 Months for Federal Heroin Trafficking Conviction

Francisco Hernandez-Hernandez, 24, a resident alien from Chihuahua, Mexico, who resides in Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced to 70 months in prison for his heroin trafficking conviction. He will be deported after completing his prison sentence.

Hernandez-Hernandez was arreste... More...   $0 (02-18-2016 - NM)

Albuquerque, NM - Otero County Prison Inmates Sentenced to Federal Prison for Scheme to Smuggle Drugs into Otero County Prison
Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico

Two inmates who were housed at the Otero County Prison Facility (OCPF) in Chaparral, N.M., were sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, ... More...   $0 (02-18-2016 - NM)

Las Cruces, NM - Pawankumar Jain Pleads Guilty to Unlawfully Dispensing Prescription Painkillers and Health Care Fraud

Physician, whose Medical License was Revoked in Dec. 2012, Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico

Pawankumar Jain, 63, a physician whose license has been revoked, entered a guilty plea in fed... More...   $0 (02-12-2016 - NM)