The twelve-man jury, made up of seven women and five men, who found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty of terrorism and other charges, began the deliberation as to his fate for those crimes on Wednesday. Tsarnaev was convicted of 30 counts, of which, 17 counts are eligible for the death penalty. It is up to the jury […]
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 […]
Saying that he “was not candid” and that his “motive was personal gain,” Judge Ralph Beistline sentenced an Illinois insurance salesman to two years in federal prison on Monday. After pleading “Guilty to ten counts of mail and wire fraud on Monday, 52-year-old Russell Armstrong of Lake Bluff, Illinois was sentenced to 24 month in […]
On April 17 a two-and-a-half-year investigation and judicial process came to a close when Robert Thompson, 53, of Rockwood, Maine, was sentenced to eight months imprisonment for evading federal income tax and for illegal sales of lobsters. The Court also ordered Thompson to pay the Internal Revenue Service restitution of $65,172. “When it comes to […]
The Denpasar District Court in Indonesia, on Tuesday, handed down a conviction of “guilty” of premeditated murder to Chicago woman, Heather Mack, age 18, and her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, age 21, and sentenced the Americans for the murder of Mack’s mother, Sheila Ann von Wiese-Mack in August. Wiese-Mack was the widow of jazz and classical composer, James L. […]
Long-time Alaska resident and fugitive, Joseph Keenan May, who took the identity of his long-dead brother, Michael Camp, was sentenced to 12 years in prison after his plea to eight felony charges, U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced on Tuesday. May AKA Camp, who was arrested at his Eagle River trailer-home in the early morning […]
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 […]