Tom Wheeler and Adam Mildred were nominated by President Donald Trump in June to serve as Indiana’s Southern and Northern District U.S. Attorneys, respectively. They now await confirmation by the U.S. Senate.
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Indiana’s Republican U.S. Senators Todd Young and Jim Banks are considering applicants to recommend for the state’s federal bench vacancy and the U.S. Attorney openings in Indiana’s northern and southern districts.
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If you’re wanting to find out how prosecutor’s offices and law enforcement are doing in handling a growing amount of digital evidence, criminal defense attorney John Tompkins figures you could get 92 different answers — one for each of Indiana’s counties.
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Calm, works well with lawyers and litigants, and without a hint of personal or political agendas on the bench. That’s how colleagues, attorneys and judges describe Matthew Brookman.
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U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Brookman sentenced Dashawn Brown, 25, to 30 years in prison and Emily Rouse, 24, to 20 years after they pleaded guilty to the distribution of fentanyl resulting in death.
Police say the man, masked and displaying multiple firearms from a backpack, caused a chaotic scene outside a downtown Indianapolis hotel, prompting some people to flee the area in a panic.
U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker sentenced Austin Ryan Lauless, 31, of Colorado, to 84 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release.
Theresa Szwast, 58, of Fishers, was sentenced after she pleaded guilty to wire fraud that involved the embezzlement of more than $2 million from her employer.
Tom Wheeler and Adam Mildred were confirmed by the U.S. Senate for the U.S. Attorney posts in Indiana’s Southern and Northern Districts, respectively.
U.S. District Court Judges Jane Magnus-Stinson, Tanya Pratt and James Hanlon imposed sentences on Christopher Martin, 33, Desmond Hess, 33, Andrew Pernell, 44, and Jessie Stephens, 24, for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The men were prosecuted in separate, independent cases.
U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Walton Pratt sentenced Bryan Lee Fish, 33, to 50 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release.
As Indiana’s nominees for U.S. attorney await full Senate confirmation, the acting federal prosecutors leading the state’s two districts have avoided the legal challenges now complicating similar Trump administration appointments elsewhere.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Pratt sentenced Kristopher McDonald, 37, to three life sentences in federal prison for sex trafficking and murder.
U.S. District Court Judge Sarah Evans Barker sentenced Donta Allen, 28, and Lance McGee, 33, to federal prison for their roles in 11 armed robberies across Marion County.
The government says the lab billed Medicare for respiratory pathogen panels that were unnecessary or tied to improper referral arrangements.
U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker sentenced Anita Marie Rodriguez Perez, 51, to 18 months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release.
The effort will target sophisticated cartels, foreign terrorist organizations, and transnational gangs whose crimes include homicide, kidnapping, human trafficking, extortion, and smuggling drugs across the U.S. borders.
Under the Trump administration, the Department of Justice has aggressively expanded its efforts to combat deceptive conduct in the procurement of goods and services by federal agencies.
U.S. Attorney nominee Adam Mildred received a favorable 12-10 vote from the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday, while Tom Wheeler II advanced Oct. 9 by the same vote total.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt sentenced Todd Wilson, 52, to 15 months in federal prison, followed by one year of supervised release.
U.S. District Judge Richard Young sentenced Carlos Granados, 35, to 35 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release.
A man convicted of domestic abuse who has been removed from the United States on four separate occasions was found guilty by a federal jury Sept. 10 of illegal reentry of a removed alien.
U.S. District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson sentenced Jeremy Mack, 50, to an additional 30 years and five months in federal prison and $3,000 in restitution after he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for fatally stabbing his former cellmate, Stephen Cannada, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute.
U.S. District Judge Richard Young sentenced Dekoda Clark, 32, to 2.5 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, after he pleaded guilty to bank theft and access device fraud.