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The son of a former Arkansas lieutenant governor and grandson of a former governor was sentenced Friday in federal court to 52 months in prison on one count of transfer of a machine gun.

The son of a former Arkansas lieutenant governor and grandson of a former governor was sentenced Friday in federal court to 52 months in prison on one count of transfer of a machine gun.

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After legal wrangling over his mental state, the 25-year-old son of Arkansas' late Lt. Gov. Winthrop Paul Rockefeller pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to one count of transfer of a machine gun.

Gilbert Baker, the Republican Party operative and former state senator who was acquitted of conspiracy to bribe a judge earlier this month, will be retried this fall on eight other counts that deadlocked a federal jury.

Federal prosecutors plan to retry former lobbyist and political fundraiser Gilbert Baker on bribery and other charges after a mistrial earlier this month.

A Saline County man accused along with the son of former Lt. Gov. Win Rockefeller with weapons charges related to the possession and transfer of machine guns was arraigned Thursday morning in federal court on a new count of making a false statement to obtain firearms.

A former Little Rock-based DEA agent pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to accepting bribes in 2018 from a known drug trafficker in exchange for providing information to that trafficker that would help him continue to distribute cocaine, heroin and other controlled substances in Arkansas and other states.

After nearly four days of deliberation, a jury of eight women and four men on Thursday found former Republican state Sen. Gilbert Baker innocent on one count of conspiracy to commit bribery involving a former circuit judge.