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Summerville Drug Trafficker Gets Life Without Parole For Attempting To Murder Federal Witness

According to the United States Attorney’s Office, Martin Ballard, 34, of Summerville was sentenced on Thursday by Senior United States District Judge Margaret B. Seymour to life in federal prison without parole for attempting to harm a federal witness. “The criminal justice system cannot and will not tolerate the kind of severe criminal wrongdoing Mr. Ballard orchestrated,” stated Acting United States Attorney […]

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Former Deputy Sentenced To Federal Prison For Selling Firearms To Prohibited Person

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake stated Wednesday that Tony Allen Riley, 62, of Goose Creek was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Charleston for selling a firearm to a person he knew to be under indictment for a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year. Senior United States District Judge Margaret B. Seymour of Charleston […]