GREENVILLE, N.C. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court yesterday Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard, sentenced Claude King, - 42, of Wilson, North Carolina, to 171 months’ imprisonment followed by five years’ supervised release. On September...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose announced today that the leader of a drug trafficking conspiracy was sentenced to 135 months in prison. U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. also ordered Laurentino Benitez, 45, of Huntersville, N.C., to serve four years under court supervision after he is...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On March 14, 2016, Tito Charles, 30, of Greeneville, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 15 years in federal prison by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge. Upon his release from prison, Charles will be supervised for 10 years by U.S. Probation. Charles pleaded guilty to...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced today the conviction of Moshe Mirilasvhili, a board-certified, state-licensed doctor, for conspiracy...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. today sentenced Jamie Lynn Swartz, 36, formerly of Sylva, N.C. to serve 70 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release on drug conspiracy charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. today sentenced four men to prison terms ranging from 63 months to 39 months for their involvement in a methamphetamine trafficking ring operating in the Henderson county area, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North...

BRONX, NY - Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt and New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton today announced the indictment of 84 alleged gang members connected to 22 shootings in the west Bronx and who flooded towns...

NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, Steven Banks, Commissioner of the New York City Human Resources Administration/Department of Social (HRA), and New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Howard...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A four-count indictment was unsealed today in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging sixteen defendants with four narcotics trafficking conspiracies, including conspiracies to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, cocaine (crack cocaine), (molly), and marijuana. The defendants are scheduled to be...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Alfredo De Jusus Ramirez, age 21, of Henry County, Georgia was sentenced in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine, a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846. United States District Judge J. Michelle Childs of...