Man Sentenced to 78 Months for Money Laundering in Tobacco Smuggling Scheme Published: 22 May 2021 22 May 2021
Charlotte, North Carolina - A North Carolina man was sentenced Thursday to 78 months in prison for conspiring to commit money laundering and filing a false tax return.
According to court documents and other information presented in court, Phil Howard, 55, arranged on at least 221 different occasions for cut-rag tobacco to be transported by trucks from Wilson, North Carolina, to an area on or near the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation Reservation (Akwesasne Reservation) as part of a conspiracy to smuggle the tobacco into Canada without paying Canadian federal excise duties and provincial taxes. The Akwesasne Reservation straddles the U.S.-Canadian border on both banks of the St. Lawrence River. Co-conspirators then smuggled the cut-rag tobacco over the St. Lawrence River and transported it to the Kahnawake Mohawk Nation Reservation in Quebec. Ultimately, the cut-rag tobacco was
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May 18—RALEIGH — Two High Point men accused of taking heroin to Wilmington to be sold there have been sentenced to federal prison on drug charges. Mikal Huff, 19, pleaded guilty in December to conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute heroin, distribution of heroin and aiding and abetting, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He was sentenced Friday to 10 .
Major sex trafficking case could trigger investigations of North Carolina Marines 2 days ago Jesse Gabriel Marks, 38, a Marine veteran, was arrested on drug charges in 2019 and later confessed to drugging and prostituting hundreds of women over two decades near Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. (Onslow County Jail) A Marine veteran turned drug-dealing sex trafficker already has been sent to prison but evidence from the investigation is headed to police agencies in and around Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, that could help identify his clients, both civilian and military. On May 7, Jesse Gabriel Marks, 38, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for drugging and prostituting an estimated 300 women throughout two decades in Onslow County, North Carolina ― home to Camp Lejeune, one of the largest Marine Corps bases.
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