Grand Rapids, MI - The United States of America charged Robert Lyle Buckhannon with fraud.

Robert Lyle Buckhannon, 59, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced to serve 24 months in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to defraud a California mortgage lender in connection with a Battle Creek business, On Deck Sports Bar & Grill. Buckhannon will spend two years on court supervision follo... More...   $0 (02-15-2020 - MI)

Dallas, TX - The United States of America charged 64 White Supremacits with gang related activities.

Sixty-four individuals with ties to various white supremacist gangs have been convicted and sentenced to a combined 820 years in federal prison following an investigation led by the Texas Department of Public Safety, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox... More...   $0 (02-15-2020 - TX)

Portland, OR - The United States of America charged Timothy Ray Vance with distributing large qualities of meth.

Timothy Ray Vance, 54, of Salem, Oregon, was sentenced to 90 months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release for distributing large quantities of methamphetamine throughout Marion County.

Vance has a long criminal history dating back to 1983. Vance served m... More...   $0 (02-15-2020 - OR)

Tacoma, WA - The United States of America charged Michael Kellar with conspiracy to produce child porno and viewing child porn.

A 58-year-old Tacoma resident was sentenced to 15 years in prison for conspiracy to produce child pornography. MICHAEL KELLAR, and his girlfriend, Gail Lynn Burnworth, 52, were arrested in August 2017, after an alert passenger on a July 31, 2017, flight to San J... More...   $0 (02-15-2020 - WA)

St. Paul, MN - The United States of America v. Michael Jacob Blandford and Matthew Jon Leighland with distribution of drugs.

MICHAEL JACOB BLANDFORD, 28, and MATTHEW JON LEIGLAND, 26, to one count each of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. BLANDFORD and LEIGLAND, who were initially charged on April 26, 2019, entered their guilty pleas before Judge Nancy E. Brasel in U.S... More...   $0 (02-15-2020 - MN)

Madison, WI - The United States of America charged Jeremiah Edwards with armed robbery.

Jeremiah Edwards, 34, Madison, Wisconsin, was found guilty yesterday evening of armed robbery of an O’Reilly Auto Parts store, brandishing a firearm during that crime, being a felon in possession of a firearm, possessing THC-products with an intent to distribute, and possessing a firearm in furtherance... More...   $0 (02-15-2020 - WI)

Milwaukee, WI - The United States of America charged Tedmund Blankschein with conspiracy to commit tax fraud.

Tedmund Blankschein (age: 51) was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit tax fraud. Blankschein was also ordered to pay $5.4 million in restitution to the IRS, joint and several with his co-conspirator, Albert Go... More...   $0 (02-15-2020 - WI)

San Diego, CA - The Estate of Kevin Brown by its successor in interest Rebecca Brown sued the City of San Diego, et al. on civil rights violation theories under 42 U.S.C. 1983 claiming that SDPA detectives violated Kevin Brown's constituional rights, leading to his suicide.

Plaintiff alleged that Michael Lambert lied to obtain a search warrant and seized property outside the warrant.
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New York, NY - The United States of America charged Michael Avenatti with:

18:371.F CONSPIRACY TO TRANSMIT INTERSTATE COMMUNICATIONS WITH INTENT TO EXTORT
(1)
18:875D.F INTERSTATE COMMUNICATIONS - THREATS TO EXTORT
(1s)
18:1951.F CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT EXTORTION
(2)
18:1951.F INTERFERENCE WITH COMMERCE BY THREAT OR VIOLENCE (EXTORTION)
(2s)
18:875... More...   $0 (02-15-2020 - NY)

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (Department)
continues its effort to draft implementing regulations restricting the categories of inmates
eligible for early parole consideration following the voters’ 2016 enactment of
Proposition 57, also known as the Public Safety Rehabilitation Act. In this latest
iteration, the Department challenges a trial court ruli... More...   $0 (02-15-2020 - CA)

Burlington, VT - The United States of America charged John Guerrero, a/k/a Sunshire with conspiracy to distribute drugs and possession of a machine gun during a violent crime.

John Guerrero (also known as “Sunshine” to his former drug customers in Franklin County) was sentenced today in federal court on one count of conspiring to distribute two hundred and eighty grams or more of cocaine ... More...   $0 (02-14-2020 - VT)

Concord, NH - United States of America charged Tharushan Nirmalachandran with conspiracy to commit bank fraud.

Tharushan Nirmalachandran, 30, of Ile-Bizard, Quebec, was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for participating in a conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Nirmalachandran faces likely removal to Canada after the completion of his prison sentence.

According to ... More...   $0 (02-14-2020 - NY)

Columbia, SC - The United States of America charged Glenn Quanta Pernell and Joseph Umphlett with drug trafficking from inside a prison.

Glenn Quanta Pernell, 41, and Joseph Umphlett, Sr., 39, both inmates in the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC), have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in separate major drug trafficking rings run from inside prison walls using ... More...   $0 (02-14-2020 - SC)

Greensboro, NC - The United States of America charged Tyler Lloyd Grantz with knowingly possessing a stole firearm, drug possession and discharging a firearm during a drug trafficking crime.

A jury in federal court convicted a Kernersville man of four felony charges related to shooting at a state trooper.

Following a three day trial in Greensboro, the jury found TYLER LLOYD GRAN... More...   $0 (02-14-2020 - NC)

Raleigh, NC - The United States of America charged Preston Obryan Miles with drug distribution and felony firearms possession.

PRESTON OBRYAN MILES, 35, of Kittrell was sentenced to 78 months’ imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release. MILES was named in a two-count Indictment on July 10, 2019, charging him with possession with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine and po... More...   $0 (02-14-2020 - NC)

Baltimore, MD - The United States of America charged Demetrios Stavrakis with conspiracy to use fire to commit a felony and to commit malicious destruction of real property by fire.

18:844(h),(i),(m),(n) CONSPIRACY TO USE FIRE TO COMMIT A FEDERAL FELONY AND TO COMMIT MALICIOUS DESTRUCTION OF REAL PROPERTY BY FIRE
(1) DISMISSED
18:844(h)(1) USING OF FIRE TO COMMIT A FEDERAL FELON... More...   $0 (02-14-2020 - MD)

Richmond, VA - The United States of America charged Derrick Leon Williams, Jr. with distribution of heroin and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

A Richmond man pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and possessing crack cocaine with the intent to distribute.

According to court documents, Derrick Leon Williams, Jr., 22, was arrested by Richmond Police ... More...   $0 (02-14-2020 - VA)

Jefferson City, MO - The United States of America charged Anthony Raymond Kaulana Flores with obstructing justice.

Anthony R. K. Flores, a former employee of a Missouri residential treatment facility, pleaded guilty in federal court in the Western District of Missouri to criminal charges arising from a civil rights investigation into the death of C.D., a Missouri ward of the state with ... More...   $0 (02-14-2020 - MO)