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Federal Tipoffs Involving North Carolina Newsletter for Friday February 07, 2025 ( 2 items )  

N.C. U.S. Attorney: Fentanyl Distributor is Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, Feb. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina issued the following news release on Feb. 6, 2025: Ryan Rudy Elledge, 30, of Sherrills Ford, N.C., was sentenced today to 84 months in prison and four years of supervised release for distributing fentanyl, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Bennie Mims, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosiv  more

Va. U.S. Attorney: Career Offender Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Fentanyl Trafficking
RICHMOND, Virginia, Feb. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia issued the following news release on Feb. 6, 2025: A North Carolina man was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for possession with intent to distribute parafluorofentanyl and fentanyl. According to court documents, on the evening of September 17, 2023, Jaron James Starkey, 35, of Charlotte, and formerly of New Castle County, Delaware, was driving erratically southbound on I-95 in Caroline Coun  more