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Man sentenced to 10 years in prison for drug trafficking
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man was sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison for drug trafficking. Prosecutors say Jeremy Rodriguez, 22, was part of a drug trafficking organization selling large amounts of heroin, fentanyl, cocaine and crack cocaine in the Hartford-area. The Hartford...
Detroit man convicted of drug, sex trafficking charges
DETROIT (AP) — A federal jury on Thursday convicted a 70-year-old Detroit man on drug and human trafficking charges. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Detroit said in a release that Richard Jackson was found guilty of sex trafficking using force and coercion, drug distribution and maintaining drug premises. ...
37 charged in Puerto Rico to Wisconsin drug smuggling case
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged 37 people accused of sending cocaine and other drugs from Puerto Rico to Wisconsin and elsewhere in the country using the U.S. Postal Service, authorities said Thursday. The United States Attorney's Office in Eastern Wisconsin said the drugs were sold in...
Ex-WVa prison guard, inmate's mom sentenced for drug scheme
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A former prison guard in West Virginia was sentenced to two years in federal prison in a scheme to smuggle drugs to an inmate. The inmate's mother also was sentenced to a year and two months for providing the drugs to the guard. Mark Steven Taylor, 40, of Richwood, was sentenced...
Border Patrol arrests boy, 14, with drugs strapped to body
JAMUL, Calif. (AP) — A 14-year-old boy has been arrested at a California border checkpoint of Mexico with three bundles of crystal methamphetamine strapped to his body, authorities said. The boy, two other teens and an adult driver were arrested after a car was stopped Monday night at the State Route 94...
6 guards, 15 others charged in Rikers Island bribery case
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors announced charges Tuesday against six New York City correctional officers accused of taking thousands of dollars in bribes to smuggle drugs to inmates at the Rikers Island jail complex. Fifteen other people, including several inmates, also were charged in criminal...
Corrections officer charged with bringing drugs into prison
MOBERLY, Mo. (AP) — A corrections officer has been charged with sneaking synthetic marijuana and tobacco into a Missouri prison. Twenty-three-year-old Timothy Davis is free on bond after he was charged with delivery of a controlled substance with intent to distribute. No attorney is listed for him in...
Indonesia sentences American man to 9 1/3 years for drugs
DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian court sentenced an American man to 9 1/3 years in prison on Monday after finding him guilty of selling cocaine and marijuana on the resort island of Bali. Police said Ian Andrew Hernandez of California was arrested last May with 10 small plastic packs containing 6.6...
Ex-Iowa professor sentenced to prison for drug trafficking
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A former professor living in eastern Iowa has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison for dealing methamphetamine. Federal prosecutors said Thursday in a news release that Randall Mark Gilbert, 61, of Marion, was sentenced Wednesday to 85 months in prison after...
Parolee in double homicide admits to drug trafficking
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas man who spent nearly four decades in prison for a suburban St. Louis bar robbery in which an off-duty police officer and a chemist were killed has pleaded guilty to trafficking drugs in central Missouri while he was on parole. Robert Lucious Toney, 67, of Olathe, Kansas,...
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