Tag: February 2017
Garcia Gets 57 Months for Walgreens Xanax, Codeine Heist
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A brazen daylight robbery at a local Walgreens has landed 25-year-old Mark Anthony Garcia a lengthy federal prison sentence. Garcia was sentenced today to 57 months behind bars for snatching a supply of highly sought-after prescription drugs, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced. On September 11, 2016, Garcia strolled into the Walgreens,…
Antoine Rushin Gets 10 Years for Heroin Distribution
Antoine Garfield Rushin, 44, of Detroit, is headed to federal prison for a decade after admitting his role in a heroin distribution network tied to a raided Huntington residence. Rushin was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for aiding and abetting possession with intent to distribute heroin, closing a case that exposed a steady…
Navajo Man Struck Woman with Car in Brutal Shiprock Assault
Terrell Ray Antonio, 41, a Navajo Nation member from Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for running down a woman with his car after a violent dispute. The attack, which left the victim with life-threatening injuries, occurred on January 17, 2016, on the Navajo Indian Reservation in San Juan County. Antonio…
Dawson Gets 2.5 Years for Huntington Drug & Gun Stash
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Marques Dawson, 31, of Kentucky, is headed to federal prison after a 2016 raid uncovered a significant drug and weapons cache at a Huntington residence. Dawson was sentenced today to two years and four months behind bars for being a felon in possession of a firearm and possessing with intent to distribute…
Navajo Man Patrick Yazzie-Tso Gets 42 Months for Brutal Assault
Patrick Yazzie-Tso, 28, a member of the Navajo Nation from Santa Fe, N.M., is headed to federal prison for 42 months after pleading guilty to a violent assault that left a woman battered and traumatized on Pojoaque Pueblo land. The sentence, handed down in Albuquerque federal court, marks the end of a years-long case rooted…
Tracy Whiting Gets 7 Years for Econo Lodge Armed Robbery
Tracy Whiting, 24, of Newport News, Virginia, is headed to federal prison for seven years after being sentenced for the armed robbery of the Econo Lodge in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The heist went down on February 13, 2016, when Whiting and three accomplices stormed the motel, weapons drawn, terrorizing staff and guests in a violent grab…
CT Attorney Barnays Admits Role in Foreclosure Scam
HARTFORD, CT – Bradford Barnays, 51, of Odenton, Maryland, a Connecticut-licensed attorney, admitted in federal court today to conspiring to defraud vulnerable homeowners facing foreclosure. The scheme, orchestrated with Timothy W. Burke, ripped off homeowners across the state, leaving them saddled with debt and ultimately facing eviction while Burke pocketed rental income. According to federal…
Ronald J. Scheu Sentenced for Illegal Explosives Sales
Ronald J. Scheu, 48, of Kunkletown, Pennsylvania, is under court-ordered home confinement after admitting to trafficking high-grade explosives without a license. The grim details of his operation—stockpiling hundreds of pounds of volatile materials—culminated in an 8-month lockdown inside his own home, followed by three years of probation. Federal prosecutors in Scranton didn’t mince words: Scheu…
Pawtucket Man Pleads Guilty to Selling Gun with Wiped Serial
Justice Reyes, 20, of Pawtucket, pleaded guilty today in federal court to selling a .22 caliber semi-automatic rifle with an obliterated serial number—an act he admitted while still under court-ordered home confinement for a domestic assault charge. The transaction went down on April 1, 2016, outside Reyes’s Pawtucket residence, where he handed over the firearm…
Kankakee Kingpin Guardiola Gets 11+ Years for Gun Trafficking
URBANA, Ill. – Jesse Guardiola, 43, of Grant Park, Illinois, is headed to federal prison for over eleven years after being sentenced for a string of firearm offenses. U.S. District Judge Colin S. Bruce handed down a 140-month (11 years, 8 months) sentence on February 17th, stemming from five counts of illegal possession of a…
