NEW ORLEANS - Anthony Smith, 50, a resident of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, was sentenced today by U. S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo to 183 (15.25 years) imprisonment for his role in a conspiracy involving the trafficking of more than five kilograms of cocaine from the Houston, Texas area, to Bogalusa...

MACON, Ga. - Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia announced that Bacari McCarthren, 37, of Orlando, Florida, was sentenced on July 31, 2013 by Senior U.S. District Judge Hugh Lawson in Valdosta, Georgia, to 240 months imprisonment, to be followed by (3) years supervised...

(NEW ORLEANS) - - William Stevenson age 26, a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced on July 24, 2013 by U. S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval, Jr., to 140 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of 1...

ATLANTA - Glenn A. Cook has been sentenced to serve over ten years in federal prison on charges of conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine, money laundering, and possession of a firearm during a drug offense. “This organization’s cocaine trafficking activities clearly fed many illicit drug users. Because of the...

(NEW ORLEANS) - - Jeffrey Michele, 43; Leslie McMorris, 55; and Sam Michele, III,40, all residents of Tangipahoa Parish, were indicted today by a federal Grand Jury on two counts involving cocaine conspiracy and distribution charges occurring in Tangipahoa Parish. The investigation, conducted by the New Orleans Field Division DEA...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Three used car salesmen have entered guilty pleas for their roles in selling cars to drug traffickers in an effort to launder drug proceeds, announced United States Attorney Edward L. Stanton III. Wayne David McAlpin, Jr., 50, of Memphis, TN pleaded guilty to one count of money...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Thirty men and women have been charged to date with methamphetamine trafficking and firearms offenses as a result of Operation “Dixie Crystal,” announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. To date, 17 defendants have pleaded guilty to the charges. Operation “Dixie...

(NEW ORLEANS) - - Norman Ratcliff, aka “Turk,” 21, a resident of New Orleans, pled guilty today in federal court to various federal violations stemming from a 34 count second superseding indictment. Ratcliffand several of his associates were charged with participating in a violent drug gang that operated in the...

(LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) - - Acting Special Agent in Charge Joseph W. Shepherd and William J. Bryant, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock District Office of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), along with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced today that seven individuals...

MACON, Ga. - Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Bertin Rivera, age 43, of Lumber City, Georgia, entered a plea of guilty today to conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute 382 kilograms of cocaine. The plea was entered in the...