CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Charlotte District Office is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold its 14th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, October 28, 2017 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time. This...

ATLANTA - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Atlanta Division Office is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold its 14th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, October 28, 2017 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time. This one-day...

ATLANTA - The National Red Ribbon Campaign has kicked off its 33rd anniversary across the country. The campaign, which is the nation’s farthest reaching drug prevention effort, began after drug traffickers in Mexico kidnapped, tortured and brutally murdered Special Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena in March 1985. Officially, Red Ribbon Week...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The wife of the former Tabasco, Mexico, Secretary of Finance has been found guilty of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. A federal jury in Corpus Christi returned its...

BEAUMONT, Texas - A 30-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today. Kristopher George Ardoin was found guilty by...

SAN ANTONIO - In San Antonio today, 35-year-old Bandido Outlaw Motorcycle (OMO) San Antonio Centro Chapter member Norberto Serna, Jr. (aka “Hammer”) of San Antonio pleaded guilty to a federal charge in connection with the murder of Hells Angel Anthony Benesh in 2006 announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in...

HOUSTON - A native of Louisiana has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and possessing a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and Acting...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Jorge Costilla-Sanchez has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana as well as two counts of assault on a federal officer, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Costilla-Sanchez, 46...

ATLANTA - Vladimir Collazo-Florido, aka“Cannabis,” Marlon Matthew Pittman, aka “Marlo Pittman,” and Carlos Gonzalez-Catala, aka “El Electrico,” each with prior federal convictions for drug trafficking, have been indicted for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine based on a scheme in which they used the U.S. Mail to...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On June 19, 2017, Allen Carney, 30, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, was sentenced to serve 240 months in prison by the Honorable Harry S. Mattice, Jr., U.S. District Judge. Following a March 2017 jury trial, Carney was convicted of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, possession of...