EVANSVILLE, IN. - - Joseph H. Hogsett, United States Attorney, announced today the culmination of a coordinated investigation into a large scale marijuana trafficking organization headed by lead defendant Freddie Joe Taylor of Vallonia, responsible for obtaining large quantities of the drug from sources in Texas, Arizona and Mexico, for...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois announced that on May 23, 2011, an Elkville, IL man pled guilty to a one-count indictment charging him with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. Justin C. Evans, 26, of Elkville, pled guilty to...

LEAVENWORTH, KS. - The office of Barry Grissom, the United States Attorney for the District of Kansas, announced that a Leavenworth woman is facing federal drug charges. Laurie Louise Reed, 47, is charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and one count of possession with intent to distribute...

BISMARCK, ND. - United States Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced today that, Bert M. Johnson, 50, of Williston, North Dakota, was found guilty by a federal jury in United States District Court of the following two charges: Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance Distribution of a Controlled Substance...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that a Lufkin, Texas, man, Joshua L. McMurray, 32, convicted of Conspiracy to Manufacture and Distribute (Count 1), and Distribution of (Counts 2 -4), was sentenced to 10 years in federal...

BENTON, IL. - Eleven southern Illinois residents were indicted on May 3, 2011, in a second superseding indictment, charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Eddie O. Allen, III, 33, Heidi R. Libbert, 29, Harry R. Libbert...

MADISON, WI. - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Duane Thomas, 32, of Madison, Wis., was sentenced Friday, May 13, by U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb to 10 years in prison without parole for possessing crack cocaine with the intent to distribute...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on May 12, 2011, a Carbondale man was sentenced in United States District Court on a two count superseding indictment charging Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin and Conspiracy to Distribute Cocaine...

KANSAS CITY, KS - . - Alejandro Ray Williams , 40, of Kansas City, KS, was sentenced on May 11, 2011 in Federal District Court to 235 months in federal prison on charges of distributing crack cocaine. In January, a jury found Williams guilty on one count of conspiracy to...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that a Sauk Village, IL, man was sentenced in United States District Court on May 11, 2011, on two-count indictment charging Distribution of Crack Cocaine and Possession with Intent to Distribute...