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Agents Seized 3D Printers, Equipment to Build Firearms and Silencers from Defendant’s Bedroom MACON, Ga. – A technical college student who described himself as a “machinist” and was building machineguns and silencers using a 3D printer out of his Lizella, Georgia, bedroom pleaded guilty to manufacturing a machinegun. Jaden Michael-William Pope, 20, of Lizella, pleaded…

Newly returned indictments in the Southern District of Georgia include charges alleging felons illegally possessed firearms, while other defendants have been sentenced to federal prison or await further proceedings after pleading guilty to federal gun charges. “Getting guns out of the hands of those who can’t legally possess them is a vital part of the…

Defendants include state prison inmates WAYCROSS, GA: A newly unsealed federal indictment alleges dozens of defendants, many of them in prison, participated in an extensive drug trafficking operation spanning several south Georgia communities. The indictment in USA v. Brinson, et al., names 37 individuals in the Coffee, Atkinson, and Bacon County area as conspirators, charging them with…

MACON, Ga. – A life-long Georgian who has served as a federal prosecutor for the Middle District of Georgia in most of its major leadership roles—including as its Criminal Division Chief and First Assistant U.S. Attorney—is the new Acting U.S. Attorney, the first time a Black person and a Black woman has led the office.…

ALBANY, Ga. –A Southwest Georgia resident with a lengthy criminal history who distributed kilograms of fentanyl and other deadly drugs while in possession of firearms and ammunition was sentenced to serve 40 years in federal prison for his crimes. Larry Roger Sparks, Jr., 46, of Albany, was sentenced to serve 480 months in prison to be…

MACON, Ga. – A $1.5 million civil settlement resolving allegations under the Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act has been reached with BTW Solutions, LLC, an Arkansas-based drug wholesaler specializing in providing drugs and related billing services to physicians treating workers’ compensation patients. The case resolved by this settlement agreement — U.S. ex rel. Young v. BTW…

ALBANY, Ga. – A Georgia inmate who is a high ranking member of the Ghostface Gangsters (GFG)—a criminal organization founded in the prison system—pleaded guilty in federal court this morning to directing a large methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy involving another prisoner and GFG member, as well as a third co-defendant. Donald Jason Miles aka “Crash” aka…

MACON, Ga. – A former Sandersville, Georgia, high school teacher pleaded guilty to producing and distributing child sexual abuse material (CSAM)—also known as child pornography—in federal court this morning. Michael Allen Dendy, 33, of Milledgeville, Georgia, pleaded guilty to one count of production of child pornography and one count of distribution of child pornography before…