Saturday - November 23, 2024
Federal Tipoffs Involving North Carolina Newsletter for Saturday November 23, 2024 ( 4 items )  

Corps of Engineers Holds Public Meeting to Discuss Camp Butner Formerly Used Defense Sites Project
SAVANNAH, Georgia, Nov. 23 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Savannah District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is holding a meeting to discuss upcoming remedial actions taking place at Camp Butner, a Formerly Used Defense Sites property located 15 miles north of Durham, North Carolina. The meeting will take place Dec. 4, 2024, from 6-8 p.m., at the Butner Town Hall, located at 415 Central Avenue, Butner, N.C., in the multi-purpose room. The meeting will be  more

N.C. U.S. Attorney: Elizabeth City Man Sentenced to 12 Years for Fentanyl and Firearm Offenses
RALEIGH, North Carolina, Nov. 23 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina issued the following news release: Karem Felton, age 31, from Elizabeth City, was sentenced to 147 months in prison for possession with the intent to distribute forty grams or more of a mixture and substance containing fentanyl and ten grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a fentanyl analogue after investigators with Pasquotank County Sheriff's Office searched Felton's re  more

N.C. U.S. Attorney: Federal Judge Sentences Charlotte Licensed Clinical Social Worker to 11+ Years in Prison for Medicaid Fraud, COVID-19 Fraud, and Money Laundering
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, Nov. 23 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina issued the following news release on Nov. 22, 2024: A Charlotte behavioral health services provider was sentenced yesterday to 135 months in prison for Medicaid fraud, COVID-19 fraud, and money laundering, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Ashley Nicole Cross, 42, of Charlotte, was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release  more

N.C. U.S. Attorney: Woman Who Laundered Cartel Cash, Trafficked Kilos of Narcotics From 18-Wheelers Pleads Guilty
RALEIGH, North Carolina, Nov. 23 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina issued the following news release: Oralia Rodriguez Flores, age 40, pled guilty to three federal charges related to her role in trafficking narcotics and money laundering for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). Flores, who lived in Clayton, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine, one count of distribution of methamphetamine, and one count  more