PHOENIX - A federal
judge on Wednesday sentenced a methamphetamine trafficker to more than seven
years in prison, according to the FBI.
Roberto Benjamin Chavez, 58, of Yuma, Arizona was involved
in a methamphetamine distribution ring between September 2010 and April 2011.
Chavez received the methamphetamine from a Mexican-based supplier, according to
the FBI.
WASHINGTON - Two
stock promoters, a securities lawyer and a stock trader were sentenced Thursday
for their participation in a stock manipulation scheme that defrauded investors
in a company called CO2 Technologies, according to the U.S. Justice Department
officials.
A federal judge in
Miami sentenced Michael Krome, 50, a securities attorney from New York to
nearly three years in prison. Stock promoters Timothy Barham Jr., 44, of
Tennessee, and Robert Weidenbaum, 46, of Miami, were sentenced to more than a
year in prison each.
