Monday saw the sentencing of Anchorage’s Hip-Hop artist Rico Gillespie in U.S. District Court U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced in a press release on Tuesday. Gillespie, also known as “Rico G the Mayor,” age 31, was sentenced in court to 87 months in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release for his conviction […]
On January 18, 2017, Secretary of Commerce Pritzker declared the 2016 Gulf of Alaska pink salmon fishery a disaster under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. Following this declaration, Congress appropriated $56.3 million to Alaska to address losses to the seven management areas in the Gulf of Alaska affected by the fishery failure. The […]
As a consequence of his November 2016 trial in which he was found guilty of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, distribution of heroin, and money laundering, 45-year-old Murville Lavelle Lampkin was sentenced to 20 years in prison, the Department of Justice revealed on Thursday. It was revealed in […]
It was announced by the Justice Department’s U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder on Wednesday that Anchorage man Kao Ching Saelee, age 51, was sentenced for his part in a drug conspiracy uncovered in 2016. According to the announcement, Saelee was sentenced to 50 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute opium and possession of methamphetamine on Monday. He […]