The three-week manhunt for two escaped convicts from Clinton Prison in Dannamorra, New York, came to a close on Sunday afternoon when a sharp-eyed State Police Officers spotted David Sweat walking on a road approximately 1.5 miles from the Canadian border and shot Sweat twice in the torso as Sweat attempted to flee. The wounded […]
An Anchorage man who was convicted of drug trafficking in the Anchorage area received a sentence of ten years in prison by United States District Court Judge Sharon Gleason it was reported on Wednesday. 38-year-old Max Jewett had previously pleaded “guilty” to one count of conspiring to distribute methamphetamine on December 22, 2014. As a […]
In a Thursday announcement, acting U.S. Attorney Kevin Feldis reported that U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason sentenced 57-year-old Postal Service employee Amancio Zamora Agcaoili Jr to 30 months in federal prison after Agcaoili pled guilty to ten counts of wire fraud, theft of government funds, Federal Employees’ Compensation Act fraud, and social security fraud. The […]
The two leaders of the Bali Nine, who were convicted and sentenced to death in 2006, faced a firing squad shortly after midnight on the penitentiary island of Nusakambangan in Java. Two Australians, Myuran Sukumaran, 33, and Andrew Chan, 31, joined six other drug offenders in front of a 12-man firing squad in a jungle […]