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Beaumont man serving hard time for child pornography

Willie Lampley, a 45-year-old Beaumont man, was sentenced to spend time in federal prison after being found guilty of receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography on Aug. 22.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Lampley was sentenced to 210 months in federal prison on count one and 12 months on count two by U.S. District Judge Marcia A. Crone. Crone also ordered the sentences to run concurrently and ordered Lampley to pay $18,000 in restitution.

Greek companies plead guilty in Beaumont

The U.S. Attorney’s Office reported that, two Greek shipping companies, Avin International LTD, and Nicos I.V. Special Maritime Enterprises, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Beaumont to charges stemming from several discharges of oil into the waters of Texas ports by the oil tanker M/T Nicos I.V., announced Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Bossert Clark for the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and United States Attorney Joseph D. Brown for the Eastern District of Texas.

Beaumont man guilty of child pornography charges

A 45-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been found guilty of child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.

Willie Lampley was found guilty of receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography today by a jury following a two-day trial before U.S. District Judge Marcia A. Crone.

Beaumont business owner sentenced to federal prison

A 36-year-old Mt. Vernon, Texas man, Charles Maull II, has been sentenced to prison for federal tax violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Maull, pleaded guilty on Feb. 21 to six counts of willfully aiding in the preparation and filing of a false income tax return and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison today by U.S. District Judge Thad Heartfield. Maull was also ordered to pay restitution of $674,730.68 to the Internal Revenue Service.

Man confesses to part in hauling drugs from Baytown to Beaumont and beyond

Jose Antonio Quiroga, Baytown Police Department

Baytown’s Jose Quiroga, 42, pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking violations that allege he conspired to bring drugs to Beaumont and neighboring states on Tuesday, June 12, according to information from the office of U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown.

Information presented in court and provided by the U.S. Attorney’s Office showed that Quiroga served as a narcotics and bulk currency courier for a drug trafficking organization led by Eugenio Cerda.

Texas man sentenced for trying to illegally export radiation hardened integrated circuits to Russia and China

Peter Zuccarelli, 62, of Plano, Texas was sentenced to 46 months in prison Jan. 24 for conspiring to smuggle and illegally export from the U.S. in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), radiation hardened integrated circuits (RHICs) for use in the space programs of China and Russia.