CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Pedro Oscar Dieguez, a/k/a “The Cuban,” was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney to serve 400 months in prison and five years of supervised release on cocaine trafficking and related charges, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North...

GREENBELT, Md. - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced John David White, age 42, of Waldorf, Maryland today to 248 months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and heroin, possession and attempt to possess with intent to...

GREENBELT, Md. - Ishmael Ford-Bey, age 40, of Mitchellville, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to nine counts of a superseding indictment charging him with conspiracy, possession with intent to distribute cocaine, using a phone to facilitate drug distribution, and money laundering. As part of his guilty plea, Ford-Bey consented to the...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Joel Perrin Robinson has been arraigned on federal drugs and weapons charges in relation to the shooting of a DEA agent while a search warrant was being executed at his home on October 20, 2014. John S. Comer, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the DEA...

COLUMBUS, Ga. - Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced the sentencing of Travis Hill, age 35, of Columbus, Georgia, on November 24, 2014, by the Honorable Clay D. Land, Chief United States District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia, in Columbus, Georgia...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A federal grand jury in Nashville last week, returned indictments charging 10 people with conspiring to distribute more than 5 kilograms of cocaine, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Armed with arrest warrants and search warrants, local, state and federal law enforcement...

RALEIGH, N.C. - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced Andrew Wayne Landells, 47, of Jamaica, to 180 months imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release. Landells was named in a three count, Criminal Indictment...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Antowan Thorne, also known as “Smooth,” 37, of Washington, DC, was sentenced today to 300 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin. Karl C. Colder, Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA)...

ATLANTA - Heriberto Almonte-Reyes, the last of nineteen defendants in a large-scale money laundering organization, has been sentenced for his part in a conspiracy that laundered drug proceeds from Mexico, Australia, England, Spain, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Guatemala, Miami, New York, and Puerto Rico. “International drug trafficking is...

BALTIMORE - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Jacob Powell, 21, of Thurmont to seven years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin. Judge Quarles also ordered Powell to pay more than $7,000 in restitution...