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USAO Press Release on July 17, 2025

HAMMOND- Isaiah Castro, 23 years old, of Hammond, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Gretchen S. Lund after pleading guilty to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced Acting United States Attorney M. Scott Proctor…


USAO Press Release on July 17, 2025

HAMMOND- Deyon Washington, 45 years old, of Gary, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Gretchen S. Lund after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession a firearm, announced Acting United States Attorney M. Scott Proctor…


USAO Press Release on July 17, 2025

BENTON, Ill. – Five men from Mississippi were sentenced in southern Illinois federal court after admitting to using spotlights to illegally hunt white-tailed deer in Massac, Jefferson, Union, Pope and Clark counties.

Lee J. Johnson, 54, of Saucier, Mississippi, pleaded guilty to…


USAO Press Release on July 16, 2025

SOUTH BEND – Today, Armon Shannon, 24 years old, of South Bend, Indiana, was found guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm after a two-day jury trial presided over by United States District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty, announced Acting United States Attorney M. Scott Proctor…


USAO Press Release on July 14, 2025

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – A district judge sentenced a St. Elmo man to 32 years in federal prison after he shot at law enforcement agents serving an arrest warrant at his residence in Fayette County.

Dax Baldrige, 47, pleaded guilty in January to seven counts of assault of a federal…

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