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.
A Pope County woman indicted in 2017 as part of a drug trafficking ring run by a white supremacist gang known as the New Aryan Empire was sentenced to serve three years probation for her part in the conspiracy.
A Yell County man was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in federal prison for his part in a large-scale drug conspiracy directed by a violent white supremacist gang operating out of Pope County that trafficked multiple kilograms of methamphetamine into central Arkansas.
LITTLE ROCK Two defendants who pleaded guilty to involvement in a large-scale drug trafficking ring in Pope County were sentenced to prison Tuesday by a federal judge.