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Kenneth R. Woodard, 57, of Fairfax, pled guilty today to making threatening communications and threatening to kill a federal official.

Cedric Rashad Davis Jr., 22, of Portsmouth, was sentenced yesterday to 10 years and 10 months in prison for carjacking and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.

Department of State employee Michael Charles Schena, 42, of Alexandria, was sentenced today to 4 years in prison for conspiring to transmit national defense information to individuals he knew worked for the government of China.

Shannel Peoples-Hilliard, 46, of Richmond, pled guilty today to wire fraud in connection with her embezzlement of $239,820 from her employer.

Honduran and Colombian drug traffickers sentenced to prison for conspiring to transport cocaine into the United States.

David Allingham, 65, who was sentenced to 13 years in prison for his prescribing of opioids and amphetamines has been ordered to forfeit a $168,000 money judgement and two real properties and to pay restitution of $169,244 to compensate three victims for their losses.

Erik S. Siebert, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, announced today case updates on six immigration cases in the district.

Jimmy Lee Scott, 33, of Newport News, was sentenced today to eight years and one month in prison for two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm following a neighborhood shooting.

A federal jury convicted Janathian Porter, 27, of Franklin, for armed robbery. Porter also pled guilty to being a felon in possession of ammunition.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, through civil asset forfeiture, has recovered a $1.9M in investment fraud proceeds and is in the process of returning that property to the victim.

Jamey Andre Bennett, 50, of Chesapeake, was sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine, possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

Wilford Amoako Osei, 23, An Italian national residing in Woodbridge, sentenced to two years in prison for using another person's credit card information without their permission to purchase a firearm.