In an announcement on Wednesday, the Justice Department reported that former California lawyer, Philip Eric Myers, who pled guilty to one count of mail fraud and two counts of wire fraud in September, 2013, was sentenced in an Anchorage court.
Former Postal worker, Brenda Sue Cox was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Anchorage on Monday by Judge Sharon Gleason after pleading guilty to charges of Drug Conspiracy and Possession of Stolen Mail.
A federal judge sentenced a former Guatemalan Army officer to the maximum 10 years in prison Monday for immigration crimes, ruling that the ex-commando obtained U.S. citizenship by concealing his role in the massacre of 250 men, women and children in a Guatemalan village in 1982.
Washington state's Democrat Governor, Jay Inslee announced on Tuesday that he was suspending the death penalty in that state. He said he came to his decision after months of review that included victim's families, law enforcement and prosecutors.