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A St. Cloud man who is deemed a career criminal has been sentenced to 17 years in a federal prison for being a felon in possession of a gun.

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A 65-year-old Little Falls man has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $48,000 from the Social Security Administration. Bruce Holman acknowledged in Federal Court that he has received Social Security Disability Insurance payments since 1992.

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A St. Cloud man who is deemed a career criminal has pleaded guilty in federal court to being a felon in possession of a gun. 24-year-old Shawn Roering admitted that he had a stolen semi-automatic rifle and tried to sell it last August.

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A St. Joseph man has been sentenced to seven years in a federal prison for possession of child pornography. 28-year-old Steven Braun pleaded guilty last December to having more than 600 images and videos of child pornography on his computer.

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A 23-year-old St. Cloud man was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison for robbing a TCF Bank last May. Salamo Rakotojoelinandrasana earlier pleaded guilty to walking into the St. Cloud TCF Bank, showing a gun and demanding money.

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Three people from St. Cloud have pleaded guilty to federal charges of aiding and abetting a felon in possession of a gun. 23-year-old Victor Shelton, 26-year-old Orlando Walker and 31-year-old Shila Robinson pleaded guilty in Minneapolis Federal Court. They were part of a large drug bust that reached into the Twin Cities area.

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A federal appeals court hears oral arguments on whether Minnesota businessman Tom Petters deserves a new trial after being convicted of orchestrating a $3.7 billion Ponzi scheme. Federal prosecutors and lawyers for Petters will go before a three-judge panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Paul at 9 a.m. Thursday.

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The attorney for former Twin Cities auto magnate Denny Hecker is asking that Hecker serve no more than eight years in prison. Hecker is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court in Minneapolis on Feb. 11. He pleaded guilty last September to conspiracy and bankruptcy fraud. Prosecutors want Hecker sentenced to the maximum 10 years in prison.

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