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A Rancho Cordova man, Adan Navarro, 29, pleaded guilty yesterday to multiple charges of money laundering and smuggling illegal narcotics at US District Court in Sacramento. Among the narcotics smuggled were heroin, methamphetamine, and fentanyl pills. Additionally, Navarro pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute
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A Sacramento tax-preparer was convicted at U.S. District Court in Sacramento on six counts of making false claims to the Internal Revenue Service. The guilty verdict was delivered to Leticia Tyshalle Marie Reed, 47, of Sacramento yesterday. As a paid tax preparer who was registered with the IRS, in
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An Auburn, Calif. man was recently sentenced for his role in former President Donald J. Trump’s coup d’état attempt. Sean Michael McHugh, 36, of Auburn, California, was sentenced on Thursday, September 7 by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates to 78 months in prison and 36 months
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A resident of Oroville, California was sentenced in US District Court in Sacramento after being convicted of trafficking fentanyl. Julius Rucks, 42, of Oroville, was sentenced Monday to a term of 12 years and nine months in federal prison. According to public proceedings and court documents, on Dec. 6, 2018,
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A Sacramento man who had been paroled for just four days before he was arrested was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Sacramento on weapons charges. Quentin Carthen, 41, of Sacramento, will serve seven years and eight months in prison for being a felon in possession of a
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A Bakersfield innkeeper was sentenced in federal court in Fresno yesterday for his role in a pimping operation. Jatinbhai Naresh Bhakta, 31, of Bakersfield, was sentenced to four years and ordered to pay a forfeiture money judgment of over $1 million for using a facility of interstate commerce in aid
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Stole over $150,000 A Cameron Park, Calif. financial adviser who pleaded guilty last October to fraud charges was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Sacramento yesterday. Tyler Rigsbee, 33, of Cameron Park, was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay $158,960 in restitution for
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If convicted defendants could face up to 10-year prison terms Yesterday a federal grand jury in Sacramento handed down indictments for three men involved in a bizarre murder-for-hire plot. The indictment were issued for Jagninder Singh Boparai, 46, of Manteca; Ramesh Kumar Birla Jr., 45, of Dublin; and Shaminderjit Singh
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Scam ran for 4 years The first defendant in a CalTrans bid-rigging scheme was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Sacramento. Bill R. Miller, the owner of a construction company, was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $984,699 for his role in
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A Sacramento-based attorney who filed thousands of American with Disabilities Act lawsuits was sentence for not properly reporting income. Scott Norris Johnson was yesterday at US. District Court to 18 months home detention as part of a 30-month term of probation and ordered to pay $250,000 in restitution and
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Pilot temporarily lost vision A Bakersfield man was sentenced today after pleading guilty in December, 2022 to pointing a laser a a Kern County Sheriff helicopter. Richard Earl Francis, 51, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today to one month in prison to be followed by 11 months home detention and 36
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Was caught by an undercover agent Last week a Sacramento man was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Sacramento. Dilesh Sharma, 50, of Sacramento, was sentenced on Thursday, March 30 to 24 years in prison, to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for attempted online enticement of