(ATLANTA) – Victor Aguirre-Rodriguez was sentenced to federal prison for his role in a Mexican methamphetamine and cocaine trafficking organization that distributed approximately 100 kilograms of methamphetamine per week (valued at $1.75 million per week) in the Atlanta area. Aguirre-Rodriguez was convicted by a federal jury on February 16, 2018...

(FORT WORTH, Texas) - Thomas Cody, of Stephenville, Texas, Chalee Campbell, of Fort Worth, Texas, Jacob Hendricks, aka, Jake Hendricks, of Clifton, Texas, Terry McConathy, of Benbrook, Texas, Rebecca Mullins, of Stephenville, Texas, and Christal Walker, of De Leon, Texas, are in federal custody following their arrests May 29, 2018...

OKLAHOMA CITY - A federal grand jury has returned two indictments involving the illegal distribution of and fraudulent billing for prescription opioids by health care professionals, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Drug Enforcement Administration and Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the...

RALEIGH, N.C. - Jorge Armando Ramirez-Lira, also known as Negro, Jorge Beltran-Carillo, and Edgar Nava-Baltazar, was sentenced to an additional eight years and one month in prison for importing heroin into the U.S. from Colombia and laundering the drug proceeds. “DEA is fully committed to tirelessly pursuing criminals who sell...

RALEIGH, N.C. - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces the arrest of Akram Abdel-Aziz, 50, on drug related charges. Abdel-Aziz is charged in a criminal complaint with the possession with intent to distribute a quantity of 5F-ADB, a synthetic cannabinoid...

MACON - Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Eulalio Martinez, age 38, a citizen of Mexico residing in Alma, Georgia, has been found guilty of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine 4,923 grams of pure (Count 1) and Illegal (Count 2), following...

ATLANTA - Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that on March 15, 2018, Senior United States District Comi Judge Hugh Lawson sentenced Burt Denson, age 41, of Quitman, GA, to 185 months imprisonment for two counts of possession with intent to distribute cocaine...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. sentenced today Derek Joseph Parker, 33, of Indian Trail, N.C. to 20 years in federal prison for his role in drug trafficking conspiracy that resulted in a heroin overdose death, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District...

COFFEE COUNTY, Ga - Vernon Keenan, Director of the Georgia Bureau of (GBI) and Robert J. Murphy, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Atlanta Division announce that the Southeastern Regional Drug Enforcement Office, along with the DDEA, the Douglas Coffee Drug Unit, the Douglas Police Department...

SAVANNAH, Ga. - In the nation’s largest settlement of its kind involving allegations of drug diversion at a hospital, Effingham Health System has agreed to pay the United States $4.1 million to resolve allegations that Effingham Health System failed to provide effective controls and procedures to guard against theft and...