New Albany, NY–(ENEWSPF)– The indictment of 21 alleged cocaine traffickers was unsealed in U.S. District Court in New Albany, following the arrest of 17 of the defendants. Federal, state, and local law enforcement officers also served 16 search warrants (eight in Indiana, seven in Kentucky and one in Illinois). Seized[Read More…]

Springfield, MO–(ENEWSPF)– Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced September 23 that an Aurora, Missouri, woman who was indicted by a federal grand jury for counterfeit checks and mail fraud related to a scheme to embezzle $252,848 from her employer made her first appearance in[Read More…]

Columbia, SC–(ENEWSPF)– United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated that David Jackson, age 28, of Augusta, pled guilty in federal court for the June 6, 2007 robbery of the Regions Bank in North Augusta, South Carolina. United States District Court Judge Margaret B. Seymour took the guilty plea and will sentence[Read More…]

Orlando, FL–(ENEWSPF)– U.S. Attorney A. Brian Albritton announces that U.S. District Judge John Antoon II on Friday sentenced Justin Edward Halbsgut (age 23, of Daytona Beach) to 42 months in federal prison for possessing child pornography. The court also ordered Halbsgut to forfeit his computers and hard drives that had[Read More…]

Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A 22-year-old Chicago man was arrested early Sunday morning, September 19, immediately after placing a backpack which he thought contained an explosive device into a curbside trash receptacle near a crowded North Side street corner, announced Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal[Read More…]