Santa Fe, NM - Albuquerque 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

Victor Sanchez, Jr., 45, of Albuquerque, N.M., was in federal court in Santa Fe, N.M., to 60 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for his he... More...   $0 (02-08-2016 - NM)

On January 11, 2008, Winners pled guilty to Count I, forgery, a Class C felony
and Count II, theft, a Class D felony. On Count I, Winners was sentenced to
six years at the Department of Correction (DOC), with four years executed and
the remaining two years suspended to probation. As for Count II, Winners was
sentenced to two and one-half years executed. Winners’ sentences we... More...   $0 (02-02-2016 - IN)

Fayetteville, AR - FAYETTEVILLE MAN SENTENCED TO OVER 11 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR IMMIGRATION AND DRUG TRAFFICKING OFFENSE

Melquaides Lopez-Del Angel, aka Eduardo Lopez-Corpus, aka Nacho, age 40, of Fayetteville, was sentenced to 135 months in federal prison on one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute More than 500 Grams of a Mixture or Substance Containing Methamphetamine in... More...   $0 (02-01-2016 - AR)

Around 3:00 a.m. on January 19, 2012, Masario Garza was driving to work
on Highway 90 in Fort Bend County. Highway 90 has four lanes, with two on
each side of the road. Garza was in the outside lane. As he approached the
intersection with FM359, Garza slowed down for a red light. Garza noticed that a
gray truck was to his left in the inside lane. The truck was being driven... More...   $0 (01-25-2016 - TX)

Albuquerque, NM - Albuquerque 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

Kevin Romero, 34, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty in federal court to methamphetamine and heroin trafficking charges under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorne... More...   $0 (01-22-2016 - NM)

New Orleans, LA - Honduran National Sentenced for Illegal Reentry

Carlos Bindel, age 30, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information for illegal reentry of removed alien.

U.S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon sentenced BINDEL to time served, and ordered him to serve one year of supervised release and to pay a $100... More...   $100 (01-21-2016 - LA)

The Immigration and Nationality Act defines “sexual abuse of a minor” as an aggravated felony. 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(A). Aliens convicted of an aggravated felony face numerous criminal and civil consequences, including removal from the United States. Id. § 1227(a)(2)(A)(iii). In this case, we consider whether “sexual abuse of a minor” includes convictions under California Penal Code § 261.5(... More...   $0 (01-18-2016 - )

New Orleans, LA - Honduran National Pleads Guilty to Illegally Reentry

Domingo Herrera-Vega a/k/a "Herrera Domingo," age 38, 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 October 20, 2015, HERRERA-VEGA was found in the United States after having been officially d... More...   $0 (01-14-2016 - La)

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 (01-14-2016 - CT)

Las Cruces, NM - Las Cruces Resident Sentenced to 18 Years for Trafficking Heroin in Doña Ana County

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

Patrick Gonzalez, 40, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced in federal court to 216 months in prison for his conviction on heroin trafficking and firearms charges. ... More...   $0 (01-13-2016 - NM)

Between 2007 and 2011, Defendant Doxie was employed by Ennis Paint as
its Corporate Environmental Health and Safety Manager. During this time, Doxie
defrauded Ennis Paint by creating and submitting fictitious invoices for
environmental work ostensibly performed by a company called Outlook.
Unbeknownst to Ennis Paint, Doxie was the owner and sole employee of Outlook,
and ... More...   $0 (01-09-2016 - GA)

In 2013, Marlon Flores-Granados pled guilty to a single-count indictment for illegal reentry into the United States following deportation and a conviction for an aggravated felony. See 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a), (b)(2). He now challenges his sentence, specifically the 16-level enhancement that was applied pursuant to the United States Sentencing Guidelines § 2L1.2(b)(1)(A)(ii) for prior conviction of a ... More...   $0 (01-06-2016 - VA)

Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh ("Pugh" or "Defendant") brings this pretrial omnibus motion (Not. of Mot. (Dkt. 28)), seeking: (1) dismissal of Count One of the Indictment (Indictment (Dkt. 11)), on the ground that Count One fails to state an essential element of the offense, (2) dismissal of Count Two of the Indictment, on the separate grounds of insufficiency of the evidence and duplicity, (3) suppre... More...   $0 (01-03-2016 - NY)

This memorandum covers two independent applications for Hakeem Alli-Balogun. The first, his motion for a reduction of sentence, is dealt with in infra Parts I.A, II & III. The second, challenging his conviction, is covered in infra Parts I.B, II & IV. The case is a remarkable one. Though the drug case was nasty, the long-term imprisonment, by today's standards, was excessive. Defendant has ... More...   $0 (01-03-2016 - NY)

The challenged portions of the indictment are as follows. Counts Seven through Twelve charge violations of three similar statutes: 18 U.S.C. §§ 2422 (in the indictment, "Interstate Prostitution"), 2421 ("Mann Act"), and 2423 ("Illicit Transportation of a Minor"). The Interstate Prostitution counts allege that Defendant induced "one or more individuals to travel in interstate commerce to engage in ... More...   $0 (12-26-2015 - NY)

Raul Vivas-Ceja pleaded guilty to illegally reentering the United States after removal, the maximum sentence for which is raised to 20 years if the defendant has been convicted of an “aggravated felony”
prior to removal. See 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(2). As relevant here, the definition of “aggravated felony” is supplied by the definition of “crime of violence” in 18 U.S.C. § 16(b), which includes... More...   $0 (12-24-2015 - WI)

Congress has long given the Attorney General discretion to decide whether to take aliens who are subject to
removal into immigration custody. Congress also has long given the Attorney General discretion to decide whether to release on
bond aliens who are in immigration custody while their removal proceedings are pending. Nearly thirty years ago, however,
Congress began enacting a... More...   $0 (12-23-2015 - MA)

LAFAYETTE, La. – United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Mexican national pleaded guilty to charges that he reentered the United States illegally at least three times.

Felipe Escobar-Martinez, 44, of Mexico, pleaded guilty before by U.S. District Judge Richard T. Haik to one count of illegal reentry of a removed alien. According to the guilty plea, the defendant ... More...   $0 (12-22-2015 - LA)

Lafayette, LA - Mexican national arrested in New Iberia pleads guilty to reentering the United States illegally

Felipe Escobar-Martinez, 44, of Mexico, pleaded guilty to one count of illegal reentry of a removed alien. According to the guilty plea, the defendant was arrested in New Iberia on September 22, 2015 on Romero Road. The defendant later admitted that he was in the United States i... More...   $0 (12-22-2015 - LA)

Smith was born in Jamaica and holds Jamaican citizenship. At the age of eight,
Smith moved to Paterson, New Jersey, and resided there as a legal permanent resident of
the United States. In 1997, at age 19, Smith pleaded guilty in New Jersey state court to
robbery and possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute. As a result of
these convictions, he was orde... More...   $0 (12-21-2015 - NJ)

Defendant Jeff Spruill appeals from a judgment of conviction entered on 
July 12, 2013, in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut 
(Robert N. Chatigny, J.), after a jury trial at which he was found guilty of two 
counts of possession with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine and 
cocaine base (Counts One and Two), one count of possession with i... More...   $0 (12-20-2015 - CT)

A second superseding indictment charges Defendant in Count One with sex trafficking a child under the age of 14, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1591(a)(1), (a)(2), (b)(1); in Counts Two and Three with sex trafficking a child under the age of 18, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1591(a)(1), (a)(2), (b)(1), (b)(2); in Count Four with promoting prostitution, in violation of the Travel Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1952... More...   $0 (12-18-2015 - NY)

This case concerns a large street fight that erupted in Memphis, Tennessee. The altercation began because Ronisha1 believed that Stefanie had stolen a camera from someone‘s home. Multiple members of each girl‘s family became involved in the argument, which escalated to a physical altercation on McMillan Street on October 20, 2010. Initially, the fight only involved the women of each family; how... More...   $0 (12-12-2015 - TN)

Cheyenne, WY - Mexican National Sentenced to Time Served Plus Ten Days, Fined $100 and Deported

Salvador Machuca-Chavez, 51, of Mexico, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on December 9, 2015, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Machuca-Chavez was arrested in Rawlins, Wyoming. He received time served, plus ten days, was ord... More...   $0 (12-10-2015 - WY)

Albuquerque, NM - Roswell Woman Pleads Guilty to Federal Heroin Trafficking Charge

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

Cheryl Ann Gruette, 51, of Roswell, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to a heroin trafficking charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s... More...   $0 (12-10-2015 - NM)