TUCSON, Arizona, July 18 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona issued the following news release: Last week, a federal grand jury indicted Santiago Luis Valencia, Jr., 34, of Tucson, on one count of Second Degree Murder. Valencia is an enrolled member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe. It is alleged that on June 15, 2024, the victim and Valencia engaged in a verbal altercation that later turned physical. According to witnesses, Valencia was the initial aggressor and assaulted   more

BOISE, Idaho, July 18 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Idaho issued the following new release: Brandon Aaron Dana, 36, a co-conspirator in a large drug trafficking conspiracy, was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison for distributing over 7,000 fentanyl pills in the Magic Valley, announced U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit. According to court records, in the summer of 2023, law enforcement officers identified Dana while investigating a drug trafficking organization led b  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, July 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia issued the following news release on July 18, 2024: A Sterling woman was sentenced yesterday to 12 years in prison for trafficking fentanyl and cocaine and straw purchasing firearms and ammunition for convicted felons. From at least June 2022 through August 2023, Kaitlyn Marie Hammond, 26, her husband Carrington Hammond, 30, and co-conspirator Mohamed Amine Haddou, 29, received frequent and la  more