Wednesday, October 3, 2012
The Ball Ground man received a four-year prison term on wire fraud charges for stealing millions of dollars of communications equipment and selling it to fund a lavish lifestyle.
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
A Ball Ground man will serve four years in federal prison on wire fraud charges in connection with a scheme to steal millions of dollars of communications equipment from Cisco Systems and his employer, Verizon Wireless. Michael W. Baxter, 62, of Ball Ground, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge J. Owen Forrester today, Oct. 3, to the prison term for a scheme to steal millions of dollars in high-value network communications equipment while employed as a network engineer for Verizon between 2000 and 2010. Baxter was sentenced to 4 years in prison to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $2.33 million in restitution to Cisco Systems, and $462,828 in restitution to Verizon. Baxter was indicted on the …
Thursday, September 6, 2012
The defendant, who previously had been convicted as a sex offender, was given a 15-year federal prison term.
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Thursday, September 6, 2012
A Roswell man was given a 15-year sentence in federal prison today, Sept. 7, for distributing graphic images of child pornography over the Internet. U.S. District Court Judge Willis B. Hunt Jr. sentenced Mark Twain Heaton III, 40, of Roswell, to 15 years in prison, to be followed by 15 years of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system. Heaton pleaded guilty on March 29, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office. Heaton, a previously convicted sex offender, was caught in an undercover investigation from December 2011 to January 2012. An FBI special agent made contact with the defendant using a publicly available peer-to-peer network. uring that session, court information stated Heaton made numerous …
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
The two men sought firearms, silencers and explosives as they planned to assassinate federal officials.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Two North Georgia militiamen were sentenced to five years in federal prison on charges of conspiring to obtain an unregistered explosive device and silencer. Frederick Thomas, 73, of Cleveland, and Dan Roberts, 68, of Toccoa, were sentenced today, Aug. 22, by U.S. District Judge Richard W. Story to the prison terms, to be followed by three years supervised release. They were found guilty of the charges on April 10. U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said: “These defendants didn’t just talk about killing government officials and law enforcement officers, they purchased equipment, including a silencer and what they thought were explosive devices, to carry out their plans. Now they will spend five years in prison.” Yates and information …
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Defendant entered guilty plea to manufacturing sexually explicit images of neighborhood girls.
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
A Johns Creek man was sentenced to federal prison and ordered to undergo treatment on charges he manufactured hundreds of sexually explicit images of more than two dozen underage girls from his neighborhood, where he superimposed photos of their faces onto pornographic images. Dirk LaPaglia, 53, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Orinda D. Evans to 6 years in federal prison to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, and ordered to undergo addiction therapy and treatment as available, as well as register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. He pleaded guilty to the charge Oct. 6, 2011. U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said, “This defendant’s disturbing criminal acts destroyed an entire community’s sense of trust…
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Alpharetta officer posed as 11-year-old child and mother to catch suspect, who has five girls of his own.
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011
An Ontario, Canada man was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on Monday, Aug. 1 for traveling to Atlanta to have sex with an 11-year-old girl, attempting to entice a child to engage in sexual activity, and possession of child pornography. United States District Court Judge James L. Graham, visiting from the Southern District of Ohio, sentenced Brian Schumaker, 54, of Mississagua, Ontario, Canada, according to Patrick Crosby, public affairs officer for the U.S. Attorney's Office of Northern Georgia. The case was investigated by agents with the FBI and the Alpharetta police department as part of Project Safe Childhood, according to Crosby's news release. U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said, “This is a particularly disturbing case of…
