LONDON, KY. - On January 25, 2011, an Indiana man was sentenced to life in prison in U.S. District Court for his role in one of the largest cocaine trafficking case ever prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Kentucky. Emire Dadanovic, 29, of Indianapolis led...

DENVER, CO. - Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced today that his office, in conjunction with the Drug Enforcement (DEA), has shut down a cocaine ring that imported multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine from Mexico into Colorado. According to the indictment the cocaine trafficking operation was led by Noel “Chihuas” Loya...

BALTIMORE, MD. - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Dr. Kenneth Riley, age 49, of Catonsville, Maryland, to 30 months in prison, followed by 10 months of home detention with electronic monitoring as part of three years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to...

BOISE, IDAHO - Nabor Martinez-Herrera, 31, a Mexican national, is the 13th of 14 co-defendants to plead guilty to a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Idaho. Sentencing is scheduled for May 4, 2011, before Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill in Boise. The charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence...

PHOENIX, AZ - . - Grand juries have returned multi-count indictments in five cases against 34 defendants accused of assisting Mexican drug trafficking organizations with illegally trafficking firearms from the United States to Mexico. Beginning earlier this morning, a multi-agency law enforcement task force rounded up and arrested 20 defendants...

TAMPA, FL. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Miami Field Division Special Agent in Charge Mark R. Trouville and United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announce today that United States District Judge Virginia Covington sentenced Adam Nagy, age 30, formerly of St. Petersburg, to 33 months in federal prison for conspiring to...

A federal grand jury indictment was unsealed today, charging 14 individuals with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade. Joining McQuade in the announcement was Special Agent in Charge Robert L. Corso, United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), and Special Agent in Charge Erick Martinez...

DETROIT, MI - - Four Detroit men were sentenced last week by United States District Judge Robert H. Cleland to serve 143 years collectively after having pled guilty to charges of murder in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and conspiracy to distribute cocaine. The sentencings were announced by United...

BRIDGEPORT, CT. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in Hartford has found Quenida Andeliz, 41, of Brooklyn, New York, guilty of one...

PROVIDENCE, RI. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England, United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, Tiverton Police Chief Thomas Blakey, and Fall River Police Chief Daniel S. Racine announced today that four men were arrested Monday on federal complaints alleging that...