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USAO Press Release on February 6, 2025

WASHINGTON – Craig Eastman, 21, of Washington D.C., was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 165 months in federal prison for participating in a massive fentanyl trafficking conspiracy that distributed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone pills from Southern…


USAO Press Release on February 6, 2025

RICHMOND, Va. – A federal jury convicted a Richmond man today on two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

According to court records and evidence presented at trial, on Jan. 12, 2022, investigators with the Richmond…


USAO Press Release on February 6, 2025

ROANOKE, Va. – A pair of Roanoke fentanyl traffickers were sentenced recently to substantial federal prison sentences.

Dejuan Lemons, 35, pled guilty to possession of fentanyl with the intent to distribute and possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. He was sentenced…


USAO Press Release on February 4, 2025

ROANOKE, Va. – The third man involved in robbing the Carter Bank and Trust on Hershberger Road in Roanoke in June 2023, pled guilty recently in U.S. District Court in Roanoke for his role in the robbery.

Tishawn Simpson, 25, of Roanoke, pled guilty last week to one count of bank robbery…


USAO Press Release on February 3, 2025

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – Hezekiah Carney, 26, of Norfolk, and Jayquan Jones, 22, of Richmond, were each sentenced today to 38 years in prison for federal charges relating to the kidnapping and murder of a fellow Almighty Black P. Stone gang member. A total of four…


USAO Press Release on February 3, 2025

ABINGDON, Va. - A previously convicted felon who illegally possessed a firearm and possessed distribution quantities of methamphetamine was sentenced last week to 72 months in federal prison.

Troy Alexander Stamper III, 34, of Ivanhoe, Virginia, pled guilty in October 2024 to one count of…


DOJ Press Release on February 3, 2025

 

Hezekiah Carney, 26, of Norfolk, Virginia, and Jayquan Jones, 22, of Richmond, Virginia, were each sentenced today to 38 years in prison for federal charges relating to the kidnapping and murder of a fellow Almighty Black P. Stone gang member. A total of four defendants have now been sentenced…


USAO Press Release on January 31, 2025

 

WASHINGTON – Eugene Burns, 32, of Washington, D.C. was sentenced today to a total of 37 years in prison, including 31 years for the murder of Onyekachi Emmanuel Osuchukwu III in November 2015. Burns was sentenced to an additional six years for conspiring to influence a witness in the murder…


USAO Press Release on January 28, 2025

 

WASHINGTON — Damian Johnson, 24, of Washington D.C., was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 21 months in federal prison for illegal possession of a Glock 27 and 61 rounds of 45 caliber ammunition. Johnson was on supervised release when he posted numerous photographs of himself to…

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