NEW ORLEANS ? U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on, Oct. 26, 2023, U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier sentenced Derek Nolan, a/k/a ?Pop,? age 28, a resident of New Orleans, to 180-months imprisonment, following Nolans?s guilty plea to an eleven-count superseding bill of information.

SHREVEPORT, La. ? U.S. Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that Scott William Wood, 41, of Noble, has been sentenced by United States District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. to a total of 29 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, on drug and firearm charges. Wood was sentenced...

SHREVEPORT, La. ? U.S. Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that Odis L. Taylor, 33, of Shreveport, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Donald E. Walter to 145 months (12 years, one month) in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a convicted felon in possession of a...

NEW ORLEANS ? Brian Jacob, 23, from New Orleans, was sentenced on Oct. 31 for various firearm and drug charges stemming from his participation in a Dec. 28, 2020, shootout at the Jung Hotel on Canal Street, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans. On May 23, Jacob pled guilty to Counts 1, 2...

NEW ORLEANS ? Jamyren Richard, age 23, of Raceland, Louisiana, pled guilty on October 26, 2023, before United States District Judge Barry W. Ashe to two counts of possession of firearms by a convicted felon, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1), and 924(a)(2), announced...

JACKSON, Miss. ? A Jackson man pleaded guilty to carjacking and brandishing a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. According to court documents and statements made in court, Russell Emmett Gibbs, 46, carjacked a male victim at gunpoint on Edgewood Terrace in Jackson in November 2020. Gibbs...