WASHINGTON, April 3 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release: A Missouri man pleaded guilty today to two felony charges and was convicted of a third related to his conduct during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and those of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Nicholas L. Kennedy, 43, of Sikeston, Mi  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, April 4 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued the following news release on April 3, 2024: U.S. District Judge Catherine D. Perry on Tuesday sentenced a St. Louis County, Missouri man caught with a gun and fentanyl after a police chase to a total of 10 years in prison. Antwan Boothe, 33, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis in December to one count of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and one count of bein  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, April 4 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued the following news release on April 3, 2024: U.S. District Judge Catherine D. Perry on Wednesday sentenced a man who was caught with a methamphetamine in a carjacked vehicle to 10 years in prison. Taylor Aellen Foster, 26, of Webster Groves, Missouri, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis in November to being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession with intent to d  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, April 4 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri issued the following news release on April 3, 2024: A Kansas City, Kansas, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury after police officers found almost six kilograms of suspected heroin in a trash bag he discarded following a traffic accident. Luis Ponce-Lopez, 26, a citizen of Mexico, was charged in a two-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Mo., on Tuesday,   more