TUCSON, AZ - . - Federal authorities have broken up a drug trafficking organization operating along the United States-Mexico border. The organization is allegedly responsible for trafficking kilo quantities of heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine into the United States from Mexico, according to a case unsealed on Thursday. On Wednesday, agents...

- TUCSON, AZ. - Federal District Judge David C. Bury sentenced David Alejo-Martinez, Victor Manuel Bermudez-Chavez, and Abelardo Grajeda-Encinas each to 188 months imprisonment following their convictions at trial on May 13, 2010 for conspiracy to distribute 100 kilograms of cocaine and for distribution of cocaine. The Drug Enforcement Administration’s...

GREENEVILLE, TN. - Michael Norman Dube, 49, of Johnson City, Tennessee, pleaded guilty on March 23, 2011, in U.S. District Court in Greeneville, to omitting material information from records required to be kept under the Controlled Substances (CSA) and making a false statement in connection with the renewal of his...

PHOENIX, AZ. - Senior U.S. District Judge Stephen M. McNamee sentenced Rogelio Anton Perez on Tuesday to 12 years in the Bureau of Prisons. Perez, 30, of Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico, pleaded guilty to the charge of Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and Cocaine. “The drug trade has...

ATLANTA, GA. - DEVON SAMUELS, 45, and KEISHA JONES, 30, both of Stockbridge, Georgia, pleaded guilty today in federal district court. SAMUELS pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder drug money and attempting to smuggle guns onto an airplane. In a separate case, SAMUELS and JONES pleaded guilty to conspiring to...

ATLANTA, GA. - DARIO RODRIGUEZ-GOMEZ, 29, of Doraville, Georgia and MANUEL GAMEZ-VALENZUELA, 46, of Atlanta, Georgia, were sentenced today by United States District Judge Charles A. Pannell on charges that they possessed semi-automatic assault rifles that they intended to send to Mexico. RODRIGUEZ-GOMEZ was also sentenced for being an illegal...

PHOENIX, AZ. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman and Attorney General Tom Horne today announced that Albert Yeh, a medical doctor who practiced in Golden Valley, Arizona has surrendered his medical license in both Arizona and Nevada and will pay nearly $700,000 in restitution for...

- PHOENIX, AZ. - This spring, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its state, local and tribal law enforcement partners will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. On Saturday, April 30, 2011, from...

COLUMBIA, SC. - United States Attorney Bill Nettles announced today, at a press conference held at 2:00 pm in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Greenville, that $3,085,386 dollars in seized assets stemming from an upstate drug prosecution from 2004 through 2006 has been dispersed among several state and local law...

NOGALES, AZ. - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Phoenix Field Division, Acting Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman and U.S. Attorney, District of Arizona, Dennis Burke today announced that authorities have broken up a marijuana smuggling operation along the United States-Mexico border allegedly responsible for trafficking tons of illegal drugs into...