SOUTH BEND ? Donta Bridges, 38 years old, of LaPorte, Indiana, was found guilty following a three-day jury trial presided over by United States District Court Chief Judge Jon E. DeGuilio, announced United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson. Bridges was found guilty of two counts of distributing...

CHICAGO ? A man has been charged in federal court with conspiring to ?straw purchase? 27 firearms in Indiana on behalf of a Chicago resident. From 2016 to 2019, RICARDO LARREA purchased 26 handguns and one shotgun from federally licensed dealers in Hammond, Ind., and falsely certified on...

FORT WAYNE ? Adrian L Johnson, 50 years old, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Holly A. Brady after his guilty plea to possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced United...

URBANA, Ill. ? A federal grand jury returned an indictment on October 4, 2022, charging Ashantae S. Corruthers, 28, of the 5000 block of Port Hope Drive in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Regina Lewis, 27, of the 1200 block of Major Street in Normal, Illinois, with conspiracy to illegally purchase and...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. ? A Rock Island, Illinois, man, Atoris Jaquez Slater, 28, of the 1700 block of 25th Street, was sentenced today to an aggregate 120 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (?crack?) and tetrahydrocannabinol (?THC?); possession of a firearm as a felon...