FBI News

Jason W. Smith, 52, of Bowerston, has been sentenced to federal prison for committing offenses that involve the sexual abuse of children.

A Burbank man was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison for evading the payment of more than $11.2 million in federal taxes.

Katie M. Tristan, 41, of Cedar Lake, has been sentenced to 15 months in prison after pleading guilty to bank fraud.

Jonathan Loadholt was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his participation in a plot directed by the government of Iran targeting Masih Alinejad, a journalist, author, and human rights activist.

Johney Lynn Hammond was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for molesting two children under the ages of 9 on the Pascua Yaqui Tribe in Tucson, Arizona.

Jeremiah Tyler, 22, of Milwaukee, has been sentenced for committing nine robberies of gas stations in Milwaukee and Waukesha Counties.

Kareem Pires, 27, of Wareham, Massachusetts, who admitted to participating in a murder-for-hire conspiracy targeting a federal witness, has been sentenced in federal court.

Michael J. Ackerman, 74, of Poplar, has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for murder and using a firearm in the commission of the murder.

A federal jury in Fort Lauderdale convicted a multi-convicted felon who ignited a vehicle on fire loaded with fentanyl disguised as oxycodone pills.

Andy Robert Ardelean has been charged by indictment with using the internet to download and receive videos depicting young children being sexually abused.

Charles Aldrich, 18, was sentenced for assault with a dangerous weapon with the intent to do bodily harm and using, carrying, or brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.

Jason Johnson-Rivera of New Bedford, Massachusetts, was sentenced in Portland for discharging a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.

Bishop Lott, 47, of Las Vegas, who stole nearly $59,000 in coins and precious metal from a Helena business, was sentenced to 27 months in prison.

A Hays man, Lane Blake Kirkaldie, has been sentenced to prison for assaulting two women on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation.

Robert Polk, age 23, of New Orleans, pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking and firearms offenses.

Pamela McDonald, 41, of Knox, Starke County, Indiana, pleaded guilty to wire fraud.

Carl Channing Spence, 41, of Mont Belvieu, has been ordered to federal prison for wire fraud in connection with a Ponzi-style investment scheme.

A federal jury has found Ruby Celly Uribe, 37, of Sacramento, guilty of unlawfully possessing a machine gun and possessing an unregistered short‑barreled rifle.

Austen Scott Tucker, 29, of Panama City, Florida, has been federally charged with attempted enticement of a minor.

Shannon Hartfield, 26, of Kent, Washington, was convicted of 17 federal felonies connected to the robbery crew he led in armed robberies of marijuana dispensaries, banks, and credit unions.