Lynchburg Walmart shootout suspect, drug dealer sentenced to 20 years in prison
A Salem man who was involved in a shootout at a Lynchburg Walmart during a drug deal in November 2021 was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
A Salem man who was involved in a shootout at a Lynchburg Walmart during a drug deal in November 2021 was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
Federal prosecutors have filed a civil complaint aimed at forcing the forfeiture of two Big Stone Gap homes connected to the November 2021 murder of a police officer.
A Winchester man, who sold a fatal dose of fentanyl in October 2020, pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal drug charges.
A federal jury convicted a Houston, Texas, man last week for trafficking large quantities of methamphetamine from Mexico into Southwest Virginia.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the life sentence for a man convicted for commercial sex trafficking and drug crimes.
Midwest Veterinary Supply pled guilty today to introducing misbranded drugs into interstate commerce and agreed to pay more than $10 million in criminal fines.
More than $320,000 is available in grant funding for Project Safe Neighborhoods initiatives, U.S. Attorney Christopher R. Kavanaugh announced today.
An Albemarle County man pleaded guilty on Monday to breaking into a private home while armed in October.

A federal grand jury in Charlottesville indicted a Winchester man for planting a pipe bomb at the Cedar Creek Battlefield in Middletown during a Civil War reenactment event in 2017.

Two more Roanoke men involved in a fatal shooting at an Eastern Avenue drug house in Roanoke pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court for their roles in the shootings and related drug trafficking activity.
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