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Four Louisiana Men Sentenced to Multiple Life Sentenced in Connection with the Murder of a Federal Witness

New Orleans, Louisiana – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that Stanton, and Age Jr.’s son, Louis Age III, a/k/a “Big Lou”, Ronald Wilson a/k/a “Tank”, and Stanton Guillory a/k/a “Nan-Nan”, all from New Orleans, Louisiana were all sentenced on October 13, 2022, by United States District Judge Barry W. Ashe to multiple terms of life imprisonment for their roles in the murder of a federal witness in a health care fraud case out of the Middle District of Louisiana.

Stanton and Age Jr.’s son, Louis Age III, a/k/a “Big Lou,” Ronald Wilson, a/k/a “Tank,” and Stanton Guillory, a/k/a “Nan-Nan,” were tried before a federal jury in New Orleans in April 2022. The trial lasted two weeks and had a large number of witnesses. All of the defendants were found guilty of a variety of offenses, including conspiracy to commit murder for hire, murder for hire, obstruction by murder, retaliation, and other connected offenses.

The evidence at trial established that Age Jr. pursued a plan, implemented by Age III and Wilson, and carried out by Guillory, to murder a cooperating defendant in a massive health care fraud case being prosecuted out of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baton Rouge. Age Jr. was ultimately convicted of the health care fraud and now stands convicted and sentenced to life in prison for his role in the murder-for-hire plot.

Judge Ashe sentenced each defendant to life in prison without the possibility of release, as required by several of the statutes the defendants were found to have violated. On further connected offenses, Age Jr. and Age III received terms of 120 and 240 months, respectively.

This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program that brings all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve together to minimize violent crime and gun violence and make our neighborhoods safer for everyone. The Department launched a violent crime reduction strategy to strengthen PSN on May 26, 2021, based on the following core principles: fostering trust and legitimacy in our communities, supporting community-based organizations that help prevent violence in the first place, setting focused and strategic enforcement priorities, and measuring the results.

U.S. Attorney Evans thanked the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the New Orleans Police Department for their work in investigating this case. Assistant United States Attorneys Elizabeth Privitera, David Haller, Brandon Long, and Ted Carter prosecuted this case.

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