A Pulaski County man’s prior bad acts resulted in an 80-month sentence in federal prison Wednesday for being a felon in possession of a firearm which was nearly double the highest sentence recommended by federal sentencing guidelines.
With the nation inching closer and closer to a government shutdown due to the inability of Congress to act on funding operations in the new fiscal year which begins Oct. 1 the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas is assured of having enough funds to operate until Oct. 13, but it remains unclear to what extent a longer shutdown could affect the federal judiciary.
A Little Rock man arrested after Arkansas State Police found a converted Glock machine gun and a homemade bomb in his car was ordered to stay in jail by a federal magistrate judge Friday.
A professional angler from North Little Rock accused by federal authorities of being at the head of a major drug conspiracy was sentenced to 19 years in federal prison Monday on the same day that one of his co-defendants was sentenced to five years and another placed on probation for three years.
A professional angler from North Little Rock accused by federal authorities of being at the head of a major drug conspiracy was sentenced to 19 years in federal prison Monday on the same day that one of his co-defendants was sentenced to five years and another placed on probation for three years.