Two of the final three defendants indicted in a wide-ranging federal prosecution of members, associates and others who found themselves caught in the orbit of a white supremacist gang known as the "New Aryan Empire" were sentenced to federal prison this week.
Two of the five final defendants up for sentencing on drug conspiracy charges in a wide-ranging and long-running drug and racketeering conspiracy prosecution that targeted members and associates of a notorious white supremacist group out of Pope County were sentenced in federal court this week.
One of the last defendants in a 2017 drug trafficking and racketeering case was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his part in a brutal assault directed by members of a white supremacist gang against two people suspected of providing information to law enforcement.
A Pope County man who pleaded guilty in federal court to a drug trafficking conspiracy charge was sentenced to serve nine years in federal prison Wednesday.
A long-running federal drug trafficking and racketeering prosecution that eventually involved 55 defendants and a total of 32 criminal counts was whittled down Wednesday as five of the defendants were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 90 months in federal prison to 17 years, making a total of 39 defendants sentenced so far.