U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced on Tuesday that a Ketchikan man was sentenced in Ketchikan Federal Court for receiving and possessing explosive materials by a convicted felon. According to the release, Joseph Duane Brown of Ketchikan was sentenced to five years probation, 30 days in a halfway house and 300 hours of community work […]
45-year-old Jonathan Escalante, aka Superman, pleaded guilty to 16 counts of drug dealing and fraud in an Anchorage Federal Court in front of Chief United States District Court Judge Ralph Beistline, U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced on Tuesday. Escalante was indicted by a federal grand jury in January, on 18 counts that included conspiracy, theft […]
Ivory Coast’s former first lady Simone Gbagbo has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for her role in 2011 post-election violence. A court in Abidjan on Tuesday found Gbagbo guilty of undermining state security and organizing armed gangs in violence that left 3,000 people dead. She and her husband, Laurent Gbagbo, disputed the 2010 […]
It was announced by the Department of Justice on Monday that Wasilla man, 38-year-old James Gwaltney has been sentenced to seven years in prison for heroin trafficking. He was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge Sharon Gleason. In a plea agreement, Gwaltney admitted to conspiring to distribute more than 1.6 kilos of heroin throughout […]