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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On November 12, 2014, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 18 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The...

TIOGA, Pa. - The United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a criminal Information was filed yesterday charging Orin Moore, age 41, of Lawrenceville with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. According to U.S. Attorney Peter Smith, on January 6, 2012, the Pennsylvania State Police went...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On September 18, 2014, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 30 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. Today...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On August 19, 2014, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 16 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On July 16, 2014, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 10 defendants charged with distribution of a controlled substance for purpose of unlawful importation, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - - The Coast Guard seized more than 3,500 pounds of marijuana with an estimated wholesale value of $3.5 million and detained five suspected smugglers during a drug interdiction in the Caribbean Sea, Southwest of Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. Michael Dacosta, Shawn A. Ally, Nolan E...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Wilkes-Barre man was sentenced today, in federal court in Wilkes-Barre, by United States District Judge A. Richard Caputo, to serve 18 months in prison on a charge of using a communication device to...

PITTSBURGH - After a trial that began on June 9, 2014, a federal jury deliberated for just the afternoon on June 26, 2014 before finding Robert Russell Spence, a previous resident of Duquesne, Pennsylvania who is also known as “Slick” or “Little Russ”, guilty of taking part in both a...

SCRANTON, Pa. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Wilkes-Barre man was sentenced yesterday, in federal court in Scranton, by United States District Judge Malachy Mannion, to serve 160 months in prison on a charge of conspiracy to distribute heroin. According to...

SCRANTON, Pa. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Wilkes-Barre man was sentenced yesterday, in federal court in Scranton, by United States District Judge Malachy Mannion, to serve 151 months in prison on a charge of conspiracy to distribute heroin. - According...