Man who pointed gun in bank tellers’ faces sent to prison
Updated Jan 22, 2021;
Posted Jan 22, 2021
A man was sentenced to prison in a November 2018 holdup at a PNC Bank in Kalamazoo (File photo | MLive.com)MLive file photo
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A robber who pointed a pistol in the faces of two Kalamazoo bank tellers was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison.
Justin Mychal Smith, 28, of Muncie, Indiana, who pleaded guilty to armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during a robbery, was sentenced Thursday, Jan. 21, by U.S. District Judge Janet Neff in Grand Rapids.
Smith is also a suspect in a 2018 homicide in Indianapolis, U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge said in a statement.
‘Drug dealer in a white coat,’ doctor sent to prison for illegal opioid prescriptions
Updated Jan 12, 2021;
Posted Jan 12, 2021
A Grand Rapids doctor was sentenced Tuesday, Jan. 12, to federal prison for illegally prescribing controlled substances. (MLive File Photo)Shutterstock
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A former Grand Rapids physician was called a “drug dealer in a white coat” for prescribing opioids that were sold on the street.
Dr. Richard Samuel Piazza, 63, pleaded guilty to three charges of unlawfully writing prescriptions for controlled substances such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, two of the drugs behind the nation’s opioid crisis.
U.S. District Judge Janet Neff on Tuesday, Jan. 12, sentenced Piazza to nearly six years in prison, to be followed by three years on supervised release.
Child molester/gymnastics coach Larry Nassar gets maxed-out, 60-year federal prison sentence for child porn offenses
The typical defendants sentenced in federal court for child porn offense have not been convicted of contact offenses and have strong arguments for being sentenced below the severe federal sentencing guideline ranges. But former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar is not your typical federal child porn offender and, as reported here, he did not convince a judge he should get a below guideline sentence. Indeed, he got the maxed out in every possible way at his sentencing in federal court yesterday:
Larry Nassar, the 54-year-old former MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor whose work took him to multiple Olympic Games, received an effective life sentence when a federal judge on Thursday sentenced him to 60 years in federal prison on child pornography charges.