JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. ? A Jefferson City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm. Malik Rashod Miller, 25, was sentenced by U.S District Judge Roseann Ketchmark to 15 years and eight months in federal prison without parole. Miller was sentenced as an armed...

United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Justin L. Coleman, 29, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Brian C. Buescher to 36 months? incarceration for being a felon in possession of a firearm. There is no parole in the federal system. After his...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. ? A Kansas City, Mo., man who attempted to rob an Independence, Mo., restaurant with a fake gun, but was thwarted when employees fought back, was sentenced in federal court today for the robbery. Bryan C. Byers, 23, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark to six...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. ? A Lee?s Summit, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today in two separate indictments for leading an arson and insurance fraud conspiracy and a separate bank fraud conspiracy, and for illegally possessing firearms. Wandale J. Fulton, 41, was sentenced by U.S. District...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. ? A Kansas City, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for drug trafficking and illegally possessing a machine gun following the police chase of a stolen car driven through the back yard of an Independence, Mo., residence. Jermel D. McCray, 28, was charged in a six...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. ? Three more defendants have been indicted in a 10-person conspiracy to distribute fentanyl in northwest Missouri. Kaden Bernard, 22, of St. Joseph, Mo., Raymundo Felix-Perez, 31, a citizen of Mexico who resided in Bethany, Mo., and Joshua Stramel, 26, of Kansas City, Kan., were...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. ? A Grandview, Mo., man who used explosives in two failed attempts to break into ATMs at Overland Park, Kan., businesses pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing a firearm. Josiah Ronnell Lewis, also known as ?Joey,? 44, pleaded guilty before U.S. District...

Des Moines, IA ? Kenneth Quinton Crosby, age 24, of Des Moines, was sentenced today to 12 months and 1 day in prison following his guilty plea to four counts of False Statement During Purchase of a Firearm and one count of Unlawful Drug User in Possession of Firearms. Following his prison term...

Chance Rebel Nielsen, 23, from Sioux City, Iowa, pled guilty on January 31, 2023, to being a prohibited person in possession of firearms and ammunition. Nielsen was previously convicted of felony Going Armed with Intent, in the Iowa District Court for Woodbury County, on October 15, 2021. This...