Tag: 2016

Sarah Jean Roblez, Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, South Dakota 2016
A Mission, South Dakota woman has been locked up for her role in a sprawling methamphetamine distribution ring that flooded tribal and rural communities with hundreds of grams of the potent drug. Sarah Jean Roblez, 27, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison on December 19, 2016, after admitting her part in the conspiracy…

Norman Lee Ritter, Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, South Dakota 2016
A 49-year-old Mission man has been locked up for pushing poison across tribal and rural South Dakota. Norman Lee Ritter was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison on December 20, 2016, for his role in a sprawling methamphetamine distribution ring that flooded the region with up to five kilograms of the destructive drug. Ritter…

Robert Earlwin Lofton Jr, Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, South Dakota 2016
Robert Earlwin Lofton, Jr., a/k/a Robert Erwin Lofton, Jr., a/k/a Blue Lofton, 35, of Eagle Butte, South Dakota, has been sentenced to 78 months in federal prison for his role in a sprawling methamphetamine distribution ring that flooded tribal lands with high-grade narcotics. The conviction, handed down December 19, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto…

Chelsey Sherri Little, Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, South Dakota 2016
A Valentine, Nebraska woman has been locked up for her role in a sprawling methamphetamine distribution ring that pumped more than 350 grams of the drug into South Dakota communities. Chelsey Sherri Little, a/k/a Chelsey Long Crow, age 22, was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison on December 12, 2016, after admitting her part…

Ptan Clown, Distribution of a Controlled Substance, South Dakota 2016
A Dupree, South Dakota man has been sentenced for his role in distributing methamphetamine in the region. Ptan Clown, a/k/a P’tan Hoksila Clown, age 36, was sentenced to 8 months in custody, 3 years of supervised release, a $1,000 fine, and a $100 special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund. The charges against Clown…

Ptan Hoksila Clown, Meth Distribution, South Dakota 2016
Dupree resident Ptan Clown, a/k/a P’tan Hoksila Clown, 36, was sentenced to 8 months in federal prison on December 19, 2016, for distributing methamphetamine on multiple occasions. The conviction, handed down by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange, marks the end of a swift but damning federal case built on three separate drug transactions. Between…

Sinjin Cameron, Assault by Striking, Beating, and Wounding, South Dakota 2016
A McLaughlin man admitted to pummeling another man into unconsciousness during a violent roadside brawl, only to keep swinging after his victim dropped. Sinjin Cameron, 23, was sentenced on December 20, 2016, by U.S. Magistrate Judge William D. Gerdes after pleading guilty to Assault by Striking, Beating, and Wounding. Cameron received 180 days in federal…

Paul Mignani, Heroin and Cocaine Distribution, Alaska 2016
Two women lay dead in Bethel — one found blue and unresponsive in a home, the other barely alive at the doorstep of the same man — and now 51-year-old PAUL MIGNANI sits behind bars, facing federal charges tied to their opioid-fueled collapses. The DEA and U.S. Attorney’s Office have moved in hard, charging MIGNANI…

Harold Davis, Sex Trafficking of a Minor, Tennessee 2016
Harold Davis, 28, of Memphis, Tennessee, is headed to federal prison for more than 12 years after being convicted of sex trafficking a minor and using the internet to facilitate the crime. On Thursday, December 29, 2016, U.S. District Judge Samuel H. Mays Jr. handed down a 151-month sentence, slamming the defendant for preying on…

Richard Daniel Lord, Receiving Child Pornography, Florida 2023
Richard Daniel Lord, 58, of Jacksonville, Florida, has pleaded guilty to receiving child sexual abuse videos over the internet, admitting he spent years hunting for illegal material online while fixated on children as young as 10 years old. According to federal prosecutors, Lord admitted during an FBI interview that he used his cell phones to…
