ATLANTA - Charles F. Hubbard has pled guilty to extortion and drug trafficking conspiracy charges. The defendant was an officer with the Auburn, Georgia, Police Department who used his law enforcement position and his patrol car to intercept and steal drugs and money. “Hubbard assisted drug traffickers for his own...

Georgia Bureau of (GBI) case into theft of 8.9 million dosage units of Hydrocodone results in multiple warrants, illegal pot grows in Colorado Springs and El Paso County COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Agents and Task Force Officers from the Drug Enforcement Administration Colorado Springs Resident Office assisted detectives from Colorado...

FORT WORTH, Texas - One of the Mexican citizens convicted for his role in the May 2013 murder of Juan Jesus Guerrero Chapa in Southlake, Texas, was sentenced today, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas. Jesus Gerardo Ledezma-Campano, 32, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District...

DALLAS - Iran Zavala, 28, of Dallas, was sentenced this afternoon by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 235 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in April 2016 to a felony Information charging one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney...

DALLAS - One of the principal defendants charged in a major drug distribution conspiracy that operated in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and elsewhere was sentenced yesterday afternoon by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to a lengthy federal prison sentence after pleading guilty last year to felony offenses stemming from...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Jucorey Deonte Pruitt, aka Corey Deonte Pruitt, 25, of Charlotte, appeared in court Aug. 9, and pleaded guilty to a perjury charge for lying under oath during a federal trial. U.S. Magistrate Judge David S. Cayer presided over Pruitt’s plea hearing. The Aug. 9 plea was announced...

DALLAS - Muhammad Faridi, 40, the former owner of the McAllen Medical Clinic, appeared this afternoon before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater and pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge stemming from his involvement in a “pill mill” operation, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. and U.S...

TYLER, Texas - DEA Special Agent in Charge, Clyde Shelley and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that five individuals have been arrested following a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas. On Aug. 4, 2016, a combined task force of federal, state and local...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On July 26, 2016, a federal grand jury returned a six count indictment against Vincent Garner, 50, of Gruetli-Laager, Tenn., charging him with manufacturing and distributing marijuana, illegally possessing a firearm after being previously convicted of a felony and possessing a firearm during a drug trafficking transaction...

PLANO, Texas - A Dallas physician has been convicted of conspiracy to sell illegal prescriptions in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. Habiboola Niamatali, 75, of Dallas, was found guilty by a jury of conspiracy to distribute Hydrocodone, Alprazolam, and Promethazine with Codeine outside...