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MOBILE, AL – A Mobile man was sentenced to 209 months in prison for committing several robberies, being a felon in possession of a gun, and brandishing a gun during crimes of violence.

MOBILE, AL – Former stakeholders of the China Super Buffet in Mobile, Alabama, were sentenced for harboring aliens who were illegally employed at their restaurant and subjected to hefty forfeiture orders.

MOBILE, AL – Reginald McGhee, of Wilmer, was sentenced on March 3, 2023 to ten years imprisonment for being a felon in possession of firearms. The sentence was handed down by United States District Court Judge Kristi K. DuBose. McGhee previously had pled guilty to the charge.

MOBILE, AL – A Jackson man was sentenced to three years in prison for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft relating to his repeated theft of mail and use of stolen debit and credit cards.

On March 2, 2023, United States District Court Chief Judge Terry F. Moorer sentenced Fernando Preciado, a Colombian national, to 210 months imprisonment for smuggling 4,951 kilograms of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Preciado had previously pled guilty to the offense.

MOBILE, AL – A Fairhope man was sentenced to 54 years (648 months) in prison for his participation in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and possession with intent to distribute cocaine.  Darrell Williams, 53, was convicted on both charges by a federal jury in October of 2022.

MOBILE, AL – A Foley woman was sentenced to 60 months in prison for wire fraud in connection with her embezzlement of more than $200,000 from a church where she worked.

MOBILE, AL – A Semmes man was sentenced to 60 months in prison for possessing a machinegun in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime.

MOBILE, AL – A Prichard man was sentenced to 37 months in prison for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine.

MOBILE, AL – An Irvington man was sentenced to 42 months in prison for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.

MOBILE, AL – A Mexican national and previously convicted felon was sentenced to 30 months in prison for illegal reentry on January 9, 2023.

On January 9, 2023, United States District Court Chief Judge Jeffrey U. Beaverstock sentenced Jaminson Valencia Moreno, a Colombian national, to 135 months imprisonment for smuggling 1,315 kilograms of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Valencia Moreno had previously pled guilty to the offense.