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United States Attorney Timothy J. Heaphy announced that the former chief of police in Marion, Virginia pled guilty in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon to a charge involving the distribution of methamphetamine, cocaine, oxycodone, and hydrocodone.

Larry Barnette Hill, 58, of Meadville, Mississippi, was sentenced in federal court to 78 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for money laundering and bank fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen. Hill was also ordered to pay $1,243,703 in restitution to People’s Bank of the South.

Edna Edith Sepulveda, 39, of McAllen, has surrendered to federal authorities following the return of an indictment alleging she perpetrated more than $200,000 in bank fraud, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced.

TYLER, TX—A 64-year-old woman who lived and worked in Longview, Texas has been sentenced to federal prison for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales.

Contrack International Inc., a global design and construction company headquartered in McLean, Va., has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle allegations that it submitted false claims in connection with U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID) contracts, the Justice Department announced.

The U.S. Justice Department announced that Joseph Sanders, 32, a former corrections officer of the Alabama Department of Corrections, pleaded guilty to obstructing justice in an investigation into the beating death of former inmate Rocrast Mack.

On July 8, 2013, Jesus M. Vazquez-Pizarro was taken into custody by the FBI. Vazquez-Pizarro was charged with Title 18, USC 875(C) for transmitting in interstate or foreign commerce a communication containing a threat to injure the person of another.

The Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that Susan C. Valentine, a resident of Fairfax County, Va., pleaded guilty to tax evasion.

A former U.S. Army Reserve captain pleaded guilty to accepting more than $90,000 in bribes from contractors while he was deployed to Iraq, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden of the District of Nevada.

A business manager for an Iraqi company pleaded guilty to giving thousands of dollars in illegal gratuities to a U.S. pay agent from contractors while the business manager was in Iraq, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson of the Southern District of Texas.