(FORT WORTH - , Texas - The last of three defendants convicted for their respective roles in the May 2013 murder of Juan Jesus Guerrero Chapa in Southlake, Texas, Jesus Gerardo Ledezma-Cepeda, a/k/a “Chuy” and “Juan Ramos,” was sentenced this morning by Senior U.S. District Judge Terry R. Means to...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Curtis Allen Coleman, 41, of Dayton, Ohio, was sentenced to serve 144 months in prison by the Honorable Travis R. McDonough, United States District Judge. Coleman pleaded guilty in August 2016 to a federal indictment charging him with, among other things, Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin. The indictment...

GREENSBORO, N.C. - Six members of a marijuana distribution and money laundering organization that operated in Alamance, Guilford, and Wake Counties were sentenced on drug trafficking and money laundering charges, announced Ripley Rand, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina. As of November 28, 2016, five defendants...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - United States Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose announced that five individuals are facing federal charges for their involvement in a heroin trafficking ring operating in Mecklenburg County. A criminal indictment was returned on November 15, 2016, and was unsealed today in federal court, following the defendants’ arrests. Eleven...

(GREENVILLE, Tenn. - Marco Bobo, 39, of Forrest City, Arkansas was sentenced on November 21, 2016, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 292 months in federal prison. Upon his release from prison he will be supervised by the U.S. Probation Office for five years...

(GREENVILLE, Tenn. - George Mooneyham, 57, of Cosby, Tennessee was sentenced on November 16, 2016, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 120 months in federal prison. In July 2016, Mooneyham pleaded guilty to possession with the intent to distribute marijuana. At the time of...

DALLAS - A Dallas-area man who admitted to his role in transporting a substance that was represented to be cocaine on flights from Dallas-Fort Worth International (DFW) was sentenced today to a lengthy federal prison sentence, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas. Funaki Falahola, 35...

DALLAS - A Dallas woman, Manuela Esperanza Pavon, 35, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey to 150 months in federal prison, following her guilty plea in April 2016 to one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District...

DALLAS - Two Dallas men who were convicted on methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy charges were sentenced last week by Chief U.S. District Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn to lengthy federal prison terms, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas. Jose Mario Chavez-Bravo, a/k/a “Rafael Lua-Maguna” and “Mickey,”...

(ATLANTA - Walter Ray Hamilton and James Robert Jones, a/k/a Sean Jones, were sentenced for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana for their roles in a drug trafficking organization that operated out of a house located approximately 350 feet from Chamblee Charter High School, in Chamblee, Georgia. The organization used...