NEW ORLEANS – Major investigations and arrest operations have taken place in Lafourche, Terrebonne and St. John Parishes over the past year, resulting in the indictments and arrests of over two dozen defendants facing multiple federal and state drug and gun charges, announced the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, the...

DALLAS, Ga . – On June 26, 2019, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested Jorge Menera, Daniel Duarte Landa, and Dominguez Marcio Vazquez on charges of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Additional charges are pending. On June 26, 2019, at approximately 9:15 a.m., the GBI Haralson Paulding Drug Task...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A federal grand jury yesterday issued a 135-count second superseding indictment charging a Fultondale doctor, Paul Roberts, M.D., with 31 additional counts of dispensing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose, announced the Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Alabama. The...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A Madison County physician pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to charges related to illegally distributing and dispensing prescription drugs, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris and U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town. Dr. Rodney Morris, 64, pleaded guilty before a U.S. District...

WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. – A major arrest operation took place Wednesday morning in West Memphis where 22 were arrested as part of a federal drug investigation. Assistant Special Agent in Charge Justin King of the DEA Little Rock Field Office and United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas...

SAVANNAH, Ga. – A physician with clinics in Pooler, Ga., and Braselton, Ga., was sentenced to nearly three years in federal prison for illegally prescribing drugs to non-patients. Dr. Johnny Di Blasi , 46, of Braselton, Ga., was sentenced to 33 months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to...

ATLANTA – Dr. Arnita Avery-Kelly, a licensed podiatrist, has been found guilty on federal charges of illegally prescribing opioid painkillers and other drugs at clinic locations purporting to provide podiatric care in Sandy Springs and Lithonia, Ga. “While in the midst of this country’s prescription opioid crisis, removing and ultimately...

ATLANTA – Yadira Gomez-Gonzalez has been sentenced for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. Gomez-Gonzalez is the last of three defendants whose drug ring was infiltrated by undercover DEA agents when they attempted to send nearly 14 kilograms of 100 percent pure methamphetamine from California to Georgia...

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Five men and a woman have been indicted in federal court, charged with operating a wide-ranging drug conspiracy that included mass production of pills and possession with intent to distribute a powerful synthetic opioid. As outlined in the six-count indictment in U.S. District Court and from testimony...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Chief U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney sentenced today David Flores, 35, of Dallas, Texas, to 121 months in prison and five years of supervised release on drug conspiracy charges, announced U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina Andrew Murray. DEA Atlanta Division Special Agent...