ROCKFORD ? A Rockford woman has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for making false statements in connection with the acquisition of firearms. KIANA MARTIN, 30, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard in Rockford. Martin pleaded guilty on May 18, 2022, to...

HAMMOND- Milton Leroy Harvey, Jr., 42 years old, of Gary, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Philip P. Simon after a jury found him guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson. Harvey was sentenced to 21...

ROCKFORD ? A Rockford woman has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for making false statements in connection with the acquisition of firearms. KIANA MARTIN, 30, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard in Rockford. Martin pleaded guilty on May 18, 2022, to...

CHICAGO ? John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, today provided an update on the cross-jurisdictional Firearms Trafficking Strike Force. The Department of Justice launched the strike force in July 2021 to disrupt illegal firearms trafficking and reduce...

CHICAGO ? A man has been sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for illegally possessing a loaded handgun during an altercation on a Chicago street. JULIAN ALMANZA, 22, of Chicago, illegally possessed the gun on the afternoon of Jan. 14, 2021, in Chicago?s Humboldt Park neighborhood....

PEORIA, Ill. ? A Peoria, Illinois, man, Don Young, Jr., 22, of the 2200 block of North Flora, was sentenced on August 18, 2022, to 37 months in federal prison for possession of a machine gun, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Young was indicted in December 2021 and filed his...