A former resident of Ketchikan has pled guilty to Lacy Act violations in connection to illegally purchased halibut in 2012 and 2013. It was announced by United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler this week that a former resident of Ketchikan, Donald Ray Thornlow, pled guilty to ” commercially purchasing halibut that was caught for subsistence […]
The trooper dispatch reported on Tuesday that after a week-long trial, defendant, 52-year-old Anthony Gilliam, was found guilty on 22 counts of Sexual Abuse of a Minor and three counts of Coercion by a jury in the Palmer Court House. The case began in November of 2013, when a then 23-year-old female and her 22-year-old […]
Investigators with Environment Canada levied fines against companies based in Alberta and British Columbia in late July, in two separate incidents, for offenses under the Canada’s Fisheries Act. The Canadian agency said that Panther Industries (Alberta) Inc. pleaded guilty on July 28 in Alberta Provincial Court to violations under the Fisheries Act, the Canadian Environmental […]
After a seven-day trial in Washington’s Eastern District, a federal jury came back with a verdict of “guilty,” for Spokane man, 45-year-old Louis Daniel Smith for selling industrial bleach as a miracle cure. Smith was found guilty for “conspiracy, smuggling, selling misbranded drugs and defrauding the United States,” the Department of Justice reported. For several […]