SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, Oct. 5 -- The U.S. Justice Department Drug Enforcement Administration St. Louis Division issued the following news release on Oct. 4, 2024: A Carthage, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for possessing methamphetamine to distribute. Robert Marion Nevels, 36, was sentenced on Thursday, Oct. 3, to 20 years in federal prison without parole. On March 12, 2024, Nevels pleaded guilty to possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. Nevels admitted that h  more

SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, Oct. 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri issued the following news release on Oct. 4, 2024: A Carthage, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for possessing methamphetamine to distribute. Robert Marion Nevels, 36, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool on Thursday, Oct. 3, to 20 years in federal prison without parole. On March 12, 2024, Nevels pleaded guilty to possessing methamphetamine with the intent to di  more

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Missouri, Oct. 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued the following news release on Oct. 3, 2024: A former Cape Girardeau city councilman has been indicted on drug and gun charges. Rhettney B. Pierce, 54, was indicted Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Cape Girardeau on one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and one count of being an unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of a firearm. The indict  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Oct. 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued the following news release on Oct. 3, 2024: U.S. District Judge Rodney W. Sippel on Thursday sentenced a woman from St. Louis County to five years of probation and ordered her to pay $279,201 in restitution for fraudulently obtaining loans that were supposed to go to struggling businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Melissa T. Stevenson, 42, of Jennings, pleaded guilty in May to one fel  more