CAPE GIRARDEAU, Missouri, Aug. 21 -- The U.S. Justice Department Drug Enforcement Administration St. Louis Division issued the following news release on Aug. 20, 2024: U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Tuesday sentenced a man who sold fentanyl to someone who later suffered a fatal overdose to 10 years in prison. Dylan C. McMikle, 22, of Jackson, Missouri, provided several lines of powdered fentanyl that the 25-year-old victim snorted early on the morning of Dec. 16, 2022. The victim lef  more

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Missouri, Aug. 21 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued the following news release on Aug. 20, 2024: U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Tuesday sentenced a man who sold fentanyl to a federal informant to 12 years in prison. Rodney G. Harris, 45, of Jackson, Missouri, pleaded guilty to distribution of fentanyl and admitted that he sold fentanyl to an individual in Cape Girardeau County twice in 2022. Unbeknownst to Harris at the tim  more

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Missouri, Aug. 21 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued the following news release on Aug. 20, 2024: U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Tuesday sentenced a man who fatally shot someone in Butler County, Missouri to protect a heroin conspiracy to 20 years in prison. James Odell Johnson pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Cape Girardeau to one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin and one count of conspiracy to possess and di  more

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Missouri, Aug. 21 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued the following news release on Aug. 20, 2024: U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Tuesday sentenced a man who sold fentanyl to someone who later suffered a fatal overdose to 10 years in prison. Dylan C. McMikle provided several lines of powdered fentanyl that the 25-year-old victim snorted early on the morning of Dec. 16, 2022. The victim left McMikle's home at approximately 6 a  more