(ORLANDO, Fla.) - Harold Omar Vargas-Delgado (33, Kissimmee), Cary Mitchelle Vargas-Delgado (34, Orlando), and Angel Ruben Maldonado, Jr. (42, Orlando) pleaded guilty today to charges related to their involvement in multiple conspiracies to distribute heroin throughout central Florida. In addition, Harold Omar Vargas-Delgado pleaded guilty to possessing with the intent...

(OCALA, Fla.) - Tirso Hernandez-(35, Ocala) was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl. A federal jury found him guilty on February 21...

(MIAMI) - Honduran national Sergio Neftali Mejia-Duarte - was sentenced today to life in prison for his involvement in a large-scale international narcotics transportation organization. On January 9, 2018, a Miami jury found Mejia-Duarte, 41, guilty of conspiring to distribute over five kilograms of cocaine with the knowledge that the...

(WESTON, Fla.) - The former National Director of Anti-Corruption in Colombia and an attorney from Colombia were extradited yesterday to the United States to face wire fraud and money laundering charges related to the promotion of foreign bribery. Luis Gustavo Moreno Rivera, 36, the former National Director of Anti-Corruption in...

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...

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...

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...

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...