News and Press Releases

News and Press Releases

2013: Jan | Feb | Mar | April | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
2012:
Jan | Feb | Mar | April | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
2011: Jan | Feb | Mar | April | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

 

June 2013

June 14, 2013

Drug Dealers Sentenced To Federal Prison

June 13, 2013

Indictment Filed For Conspiracy To Commit Mail And Wire Fraud, And Extortion By Interstate Communications; Money Laundering; Money Laundering Conspiracy; And Obstruction Of Justice

June 12, 2013

County Commissioner Sentenced For Attempted Extortion And Bribery

June 7, 2013

Dr. Robert B. Sperrazza Convicted Of Tax Evasion And Currency Structuring

June 6, 2013

Three Georgia Residents Sentenced For Their Roles In Bribery Scheme Related To The Award Of Government Contracts

June 5, 2013

Valdosta Man Sentenced For Stolen Firearms

June 4, 2013

Drug Dealer Sentenced

May 2013

May 31, 2013

Armed Career Criminal Sentenced

May 31, 2013

Drug Dealer And Armed Career Criminal Sentenced

May 31, 2013

Woman Sentenced For Health Care Fraud

May 17, 2013

Trucking Company Owner Indicted

May 17, 2013

Plea Of Guilty Entered To Receipt Of Child Pornography

May 09, 2013

Health Care Fraud And Money Laundering

May 08, 2013

Former Wilcox County, Georgia, Sheriff And Others Sentenced for Assaulting Inmate

May 08, 2013

Georgia Man Plead Guilty To Receiving Bribes In Transportation Scheme At Local Military Base

April 2013

April 26, 2013

United States Attorney's Office Supports Drug Enforcement Administration's National Take-Back Initiative

April 26, 2013

Former Bank Teller Sentenced To Prison For Embezzlement Of Government Funds And Aggravated Identity Theft

April 17, 2013

Air Conditioner Thief Sentenced To Six-And-A-Half Years In Federal Prison For Damaging Enviornment

April 16, 2013

Eight Current Of Former Macon State Prison Officers Charged In Conspiracy To Assault Inmates

April 16, 2013

Ponzi Scheme Indicted

April 12, 2013

Armed Bank Robbery

April 12, 2013

Bankruptcy Fraud

April 11, 2013

Identity Thief Enters Guilty Plea

April 10, 2013

Defendants Indicted For Filing False Federal Tax Returns, Theft Of Government Property, And Identity Theft

April 1, 2013

Bank Fraud

March 2013

March 29, 2013

Georgia Husband And Wife Tax Return Preparers Indicted For Tax Crimes

March 21, 2013

Princess L. Eatmon Sentenced to Prison

March 18, 2013

Georgia Tax Return Preparer Sentenced To Prison

March 12, 2013

James Edward Calloway and Desi Surtane Hansford Indicted For Bribery Concerning A Governmental Program Receiving Federal Funds

March 1, 2013

Armed Bank Robbery

February 2013

February 21, 2013

Former Officials And Broker Of Peanut Corporation Of America Indicted Related To Salmonella-Tainted Peanut Products

February 13, 2013

Georgia Man Admits Taking Bribes To Allow $1 Million Theft Of Government Equipment From Marine Base

February 13, 2013

Three Armed Career Criminals Plead Guilty

February 5, 2013

Distribution Of Cocaine Base AKA Crack Cocaine

January 2013

January 31, 2013

Joseph W. Jordan Sentenced to Prison

January 30, 2013

Georgia Tax Return Preparer Sentenced to Jail for Identity Theft

January 23, 2013

Middle District of Georgia Grant Funds Available

January 18, 2013

Former Bank Teller Convicted

January 17, 2013

Cordele, Georgia, resident Indicted for Using Stolen Identities on False Tax Returns

January 14, 2013

Dontreal jenkins and Trevayne Jones Convicted of Embezzlement of Government Property and Aggravated Identity Theft

January 10, 2013

Georgia Men Plead Guilty to Bribing Official to Secure Government Contracts

2012 PRESS RELEASES

December 2012

December 20, 2012

Valdosta Bank Robbers Sentenced

December 11, 2012

Sidney L. Hall Pleads Guilty to Bank Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft

December 10, 2012

Derrick Pickett Sentenced to 75 Months in Prison for Treasury Fraud & Identity Theft

December 6, 2012

United states Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Georgia Collects $2,459,970.10 and Forfeited $1.78 Million in Civil and Criminal Action in FY 2012

December 4, 2012

County Commissioner Convicted in Georgia for Attempted Extortion and Bribery

November 2012

November 7, 2012

Joseph McCoy Sentenced to 95 Months in Prison for Treasury Check Fraud & Identity Theft

November 7, 2012

Kenneth Wayne Wright Sentenced to 12 Months in Prison for Tax Evasion

November 2, 2012

Two Defendants Sentenced for Firearms Violations

November 1, 2012

Defendant Sentenced to Ten Years Imprisonment for Drug and Firearm Charges

October 2012

October 26, 2012

Possession of Firearm by Convicted Felon

October 25, 2012

Plea of Guilty Entered to Stolen Firearms Charge

October 24, 2012

Former Supervisor at Georgia Prison is the Third to Plead Guilty to Conspiring with Other Officers to Assault and Injure Inmates

October 23, 2012

Former Georgia Police Chief Sentenced for Assaulting Restrained Inmate

October 22, 2012

Former Georgia Police Chief Sentenced for Assaulting Restrained Inmate

October 10, 2012

Richard A. Chafin, former Sheriff of Brooks County, Georgia Sentenced to Prison

September 2012

September 20, 2012

Grant Funds Awarded

September 19, 2012

Sentencing in Child Pornography Case

September 18, 2012

Life Sentence Imposed on Drug Dealer

August 2012

August 21, 2012

Indictment Returned And Pintail Appearance Scheduled

August 20, 2012

Filing False Tax Returns Guilty Plea

August 2, 2012

Former Georgia Police Chief Convicted On Federal Civil Rights Violation

July 2012

July 30, 2012

Election Day Press Release

July 19, 2012

Sentencing Of Possession Of Firearm By A Convicted Felon

July 18, 2012

Xavier Sims Sentenced For Making Bomb Threat To Colquitt County, Georgia School

July 12, 2012

Third Safety in Our Schools Conference to be held in Tifton, Georgia, July 17-19, 2012

July 2, 2012

Former Correctional Officer at Macon State Prison Pleads Guilty to Conspiring with Other Officers to Assault and Injure Inmates

June 2012

June 28, 2012

Kenneth B. Beverly Sentenced for Health Care Fraud

June 21, 2012

Former Warner Robins, Georgia Councilman John Williams Sentenced

June 15, 2012

Guilty Verdict for Firearms Offenses

June 8, 2012

Guilty Verdict for Kickbacks to a Bank Officer

May 2012

May 31, 2012

Columbus Man Sentenced On Child Pornography Violation

Seafood Dealers and Fishermen Sentenced

May 18, 2012

Five Individuals Sentenced for Fraudulent Federal Tax Refunds

May 7, 2012

Grant Funds Available

May 1, 2012

Sentencing In Health Care Insurance Fraud

April 2012

April 27, 2012

Drug Dealer Sentenced

April 25, 2012

Guilty Verdict For Former Warner Robins, Georgia Councilman John Williams

April 13, 2012

Guilty Verdict For Malicious Mischief To Government Property

Possession And Sale Of Stolen Firearms And Possession Of Stolen Goods

Drug Dealer Convicted

Co-Defendants Sentenced In Forest Service Officer Killing Case

April 9, 2012

Child Sex Offender Sentenced

March 2012

March 28, 2012

Bank Robber Sentenced

March 27, 2012

Plea Of Guilty Entered For Making A Bomb Threat To Colquitt County, Georgia School

March 26, 2012

Drug Dealers Sentenced In Valdosta, Georgia

March 23, 2012

Norman Clinton Hale Sentenced For Kill U.S. Forest Service Law Enforcement Officer

February 2012

February 28, 2012

Drug Dealers Sentenced

February 10, 2012

Credit Union Employee Sentenced

February 2, 2012

Making False Statements To Federal Agent

January 2012

January 19, 2012

Health Care Insurance Fraud

Sentencing Of Thomaston Housing Authority Employees



2011 PRESS RELEASES

December 2011

December 21, 2011

Trucking Company And Owner Indicted

Seafood Dealers And Fishermen Plead Guilty

December 15, 2011

Americus Georgia Man Sentenced On Child Pornography Violation

Armed Bank Robbery Indictment

December 14, 2011

Guilty Pleas Entered By Talbot County Deputies

December 13, 2011

Insurance Fraud Sentencing

December 2, 2011

CEO Of Angel Food Ministries And Others Indicted

November 2011

November 18, 2011

Hunter Admits To Killing Forest Service Officer

November 10, 2011

Grant Awarded To Houston County Law Enforcement Agencies

November 2, 2011

Cocaine Organization Dismantled

October 2011

October 18, 2011

Warner Robins, Georgia Councilman Indicted

October 6, 2011

Athens Man Sentenced For Theft Of Government Property

September 2011

September 30, 2011

Free Seminar Being Offered To Business Owners And Managers

August 2011

August 19, 2011

Child Pornography Sentencing

August 17, 2011

Cocaine Organization Guilty Pleas

August 4, 2011

Correction: Health Care Insurance Fraud

August 4, 2011

Health Care Insurance Fraud

August 4, 2011

Health Care Insurance Fraud Sentencing

July 2011

July 29, 2011

Cordele Man Sentenced To Prison For Threatening Social Security Office Employees

July 29, 2011

Guilty Plea To Filing False Tax Returns

July 29, 2011

Possession Of A Firearm By A Convicted Felon

July 29, 2011

Georgia Man Sentenced To Six And A Half Years For Possession Of Child Pornography

July 19, 2011

Theft From Organization Receiving Federal Funds

July 6, 2011

Seafood Dealers And Fishermen Indicted

June 2011

June 24, 2011

Lee County, Georgia Man Sentenced To Ten Years For Possession Of Child Pornography

June 23, 2011

Members Of International Procurement Network Indicted For Supplying Iran With U.S. Military Aircraft Components

June 22, 2011

Press Release

June 22, 2011

Extortion By A Public Official

June 15, 2011

Plea Of Guilty For Tax Violations

June 10, 2011

Moultrie Man Sentenced For Misappropriation Of Postal Funds

May 2011

May 27, 2011

Drug Dealer Sentenced

May 26, 2011

Drug Dealer Sentenced

May 9, 2011

Federal Case Involving Manufacture Of Marijuana

April 2011

April 21, 2011

Georgia Man Sentenced To 25 Years in Prison For Production Of Child Pornography

Health Care Insurance Fraud

April 14, 2011

Drug Dealer Sentenced

March 2011

March 4, 2011

Five Convenience Store Owners Plead Guilty To Aiding And Abetting In An Illegal Gambling Business

February 2011

February 18, 2011

Press Release

February 11, 2011

Drug Dealer Sentenced

Albany And Americus Drug Dealers Sentenced To Serve Federal Prison Time

January 2011

January 28, 2011

Sex Offender Sentenced

Sex Offender Sentenced

Albany And Valdosta Drug Dealers Sentenced To Serve Federal Prison Time

January 27, 2011

Sentencing

January 21, 2011

Indictment In Shooting Of Forest Service Officer

January 19, 2011

Sentencing Press Release

January 18, 2011

January Is National Stalking Awareness Month

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