U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana
Recent News About U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana
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Five individuals from Honduras have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Lafayette, Louisiana, on charges related to illegal re-entry into the United States after deportation.
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A former tutor from Suffolk County, New York, Stephen Andrew Cipkin, 38, has been sentenced to 65 years in prison.
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Jack Montoucet, the former Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF), has been indicted on federal charges.
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A federal grand jury has indicted two men for their roles in robberies at two Shreveport stores, according to Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook.
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Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook has announced the indictment of a Rapides Parish man as part of Operation Restore Justice.
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Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced the sentencing of Destane Glass, aged 24, from Shreveport, in a federal bank fraud case.
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Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced the sentencing of Keynon Frazier, also known as "Green Eyez," a 29-year-old from Shreveport.
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Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, Alexander C. Van Hook, announced that two residents of Heflin, Louisiana, Jaworski Batton, 41, and Cody Gibson, 40, have been found guilty by a federal jury in Shreveport.
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Three individuals have been indicted by a federal grand jury in the Western District of Louisiana for illegal re-entry into the United States and other charges.
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Kendall Hicks, a 35-year-old resident of Lake Charles, Louisiana, has been sentenced to over 16 years in federal prison for distribution of fentanyl.
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A federal jury in Alexandria has found Roy Everett Jordan, Jr., 57, of Georgetown, guilty of unauthorized removal of archaeological resources and illegal possession of a firearm.
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Nine individuals have been sentenced to a total of over 79 years in federal prison for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, according to Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook.
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A federal jury in Lafayette has reached a verdict against Shanone Chatman-Ashley, a nurse practitioner from Opelousas, who was found guilty of being involved in a scheme to defraud the Medicare Program, totaling over $2 million.
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A federal grand jury in Lafayette, Louisiana, has indicted a Lafayette man and his two daughters on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud.
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A Lake Charles man has been sentenced in a child pornography case, according to Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook.
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Willie Shanderek Shavon Woodard, a former employee of the U.S. Postal Service in Monroe, Louisiana, has been sentenced to 108 months in federal prison for his involvement in a drug trafficking conspiracy.
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A Pineville resident, Daniel Perryman Collins, 34, has been sentenced to over 27 years in prison for his involvement in child exploitation and the production of child pornography.
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Four individuals with felony convictions have been sentenced to a combined total of 15 years in federal prison for illegally possessing firearms.
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A Lake Charles resident, Jeremy Wade Denegall, 45, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison on drug trafficking charges.
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Shaquaila Lewis, also known as Shaquaila Lewis-Chatman, has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for committing wire fraud related to the CARES Act and the Paycheck Protection Program.