STATESVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Court Judge Richard Voorhees sentenced today Elisa Annette Baker, 44, of Hickory, N.C., to serve 120 months in prison for conspiracy with intent to distribute prescription drugs, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Baker was also ordered to...

NEW ORLEANS - Don Brooks, age 19, and Antoine Brooks, age 21, both residents of New Orleans, Louisiana, were charged in a 9-count superseding indictment. In addition to the charges brought in the original indictment, the charges in the superseding indictment include discharging a firearm in furtherance of a drug...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Two men were sentenced on Wednesday, February 27, 2013, in U.S. District Court for their part in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr., sentenced Ildefonso Madrid Flores, 28, of...

SAVANNAH, Ga. - A federal indictment, unsealed today in federal court, has charged six defendants with conspiracy to traffic oxycodone, hydrocodone and other drugs through a purported pain clinic known as East Health Center, which operated in Garden City, Georgia from February through May of 2011. The indictment alleges that...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Today, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock District Office of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) William J. Bryant and Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced United States District Judge J. Leon Holmes sentenced Michael Meilke, age 38...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Joseph W. Shepherd announced today that a year-long undercover investigation resulted in 15 people being charged for distributing cocaine and methamphetamine in the Mansfield area. The charges and arrests are part of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task (OCDETF)...

DEC 18 -- (Little Rock, Ark.) - Beginning in April 2012, the DEA Little Rock Tactical Diversion (TDS) began receiving information from various pharmacies in the Central Arkansas area regarding call-in and facsimile prescriptions written in the name of James Derek Johnston. Johnston, who is a Certified Public Accountant, was...

FORT SMITH, Ark. - Today Sheila Hayes, 39, William Hayes, 35, Daniel Lawson, 24, and Jesus Ordaz, 25, all of Fort Smith, Arkansas, were sentenced to a combined 61 years imprisonment for the distribution of methamphetamine. The sentences are the result of an investigation into a drug trafficking organization operating...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - William J. Bryant, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock District Office of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced the arrests today of multiple individuals related to a federal indictment focused on methamphetamine distribution in the central Arkansas area. The organization at the center of...

NEW ORLEANS - Norberto Lazaro Delagarza IV , 24, resident of Laredo, Texas, was sentenced today by U. S. District Court Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle to 84 months imprisonment. In addition to term of imprisonment, Judge Lemelle imposed five years of supervised release following the term of imprisonment, during which...