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Drug Kingpin Peddling Nearly Pure Meth In Virginia Convicted For 15th Time: Feds Drug Kingpin Peddling Nearly Pure Meth In Virginia Convicted For 15th Time: Feds
Drug Kingpin Peddling Nearly Pure Meth In Virginia Convicted For 15th Time: Feds A Virginia Beach man just earned himself his 15th conviction — this one federal. Malik Dillard, who guys by “Mayo,” used out-of-state methamphetamine suppliers to import bulk packages of nearly pure methamphetamine (98.6% purity) to Virginia through the U.S. Postal Service, according to Jessica D. Aber, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Dillard employed a network of sub-dealers to scale and expand his methamphetamine operation across the Hampton Roads region over multiple years, Aber's office said. "Methamphetamine is a powerful, highly addictive stimulant that affec…

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DC Metro Rider Convicted Of Unprompted Attack During Morning Commute: Feds DC Metro Rider Convicted Of Unprompted Attack During Morning Commute: Feds
DC Metro Rider Convicted Of Unprompted Attack During Morning Commute: Feds A District man is in for a rough Valentine's Day next year. On Monday, a jury found Neal Pitt, 36, guilty of assault with significant bodily injury for his role in an attack that happened on the L'Enfant Plaza Metro Station platform in March 2021, authorities announced. During the morning commute on March 9, 2021, federal prosecutors said that Daniel Olsen was heading to work when he was followed by Pitt to the Branch Avenue-bound platform, at which point he grabbed Olsen and threw him to the ground. Olsen landed on his right shoulder, breaking his humerus, an injury that required surgery …

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Career Criminal Facing Life In Prison For Peddling Meth, Fentanyl In Fairfax County: Police Career Criminal Facing Life In Prison For Peddling Meth, Fentanyl In Fairfax County: Police
Career Criminal Facing Life In Prison For Peddling Meth, Fentanyl In Fairfax County: Police A convicted felon in Fairfax County may spend the rest of his life in prison for conspiring to distribute hundreds of grams of methamphetamine and fentanyl in Virginia, police say. Calvin Ray Brown, 50, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, March 1 to conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl and 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, officials from the Fairfax County Police Department announced. According to court documents, in March and April last year, Brown and a co-conspirator sold counterfeit pressed pills containing fentanyl to one of the department’s confidential informants and a…

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by Zak Failla
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VA Rapper With Capitol Riot Album Cover Gets Prison Time VA Rapper With Capitol Riot Album Cover Gets Prison Time
VA Rapper With Capitol Riot Album Cover Gets Prison Time The former rapper from Virginia who used an image of himself during the Capitol riot as the art for a cheekily-named album will spend time behind bars, federal officials announced. Antionne Brodnax, an artist also known as “Bugzie the Don" has been sentenced to five months in prison followed by a year of supervised release after he pleaded guilty earlier this year to several misdemeanor counts for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol Building. During the riot, Brodnax, who later moved from Virginia to Georgia, was captured smoking on a vehicle outside of the Capitol, in…

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by Zak Failla
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Feds: NY Ex-Con Who Tried To Get Loaded Gun By Newark Airport Security Gets 3 Years, No Parole Feds: NY Ex-Con Who Tried To Get Loaded Gun By Newark Airport Security Gets 3 Years, No Parole
Feds: NY Ex-Con Who Tried To Get Loaded Gun By Newark Airport Security Gets 3 Years, No Parole An ex-con from New York must spend the next three years in federal prison, with no parole, for trying to slip a loaded, stolen gun and lots of ammunition past a security checkpoint at Newark Airport. Desmond Herring, 48, of Newburgh made a beeline for his gate when a TSA officer staffing the checkpoint X-ray monitor found the loaded weapon -- along with boxes of ammo -- in his carry-on bag on Nov. 29, 2021, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said. Port Authority police collected the bag and examined its contents, the TSA said at the time. Along with the 9mm pistol were 10 rou…

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by Jerry DeMarco