ANCHORAGE- - Mark Thomas, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Seattle Field Division, announced today that a federal grand jury returned a four count indictment charging a Fairbanks man with drug and firearms charges. The indictment charges Dale Cleveland Johnson, Jr., 47, with two counts...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that a Granite City man, Oscar Valle, who was indicted along with twenty-two other individuals and charged with being members of a large cocaine distribution organization, has pled guilty. Ortiz...

BOISE, IDAHO-- - Audits conducted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) involving an Idaho dentist and an Idaho pharmacy resulted in the collection of 35,000 in civil penalties for failing to keep proper distribution records for controlled pharmaceuticals. The penalties were collected by the United States Attorney’s Office, Affirmative Civil...

EUGENE, Ore. -- - On June 7, 2011, U.S. District Judge Michael R. Hogan sentenced Ivan Banuelos-Escobar, 42, a resident of Los Angeles, to ten years in prison. He was also ordered to serve a supervised release term of five years. Banuelos-Escobar pled guilty earlier this year to possession with...

BOISE, ID - - Douglas D. Dalton, 52, of Aberdeen, Idaho, was sentenced on June 7, 2011 to 156 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Dalton was ordered to serve ten years of supervised release following his prison term. Dalton pleaded guilty to the charge in May 2010...

KANSAS CITY, MO. - Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Mexican national pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to grow thousands of marijuana plants in two large plots near Gower, Missouri. Serafin Rodriguez Gonzalez, 24, of...

BENTON, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that Jeffrey Todd Chenoweth, R.Ph., 40, of Newton, Ill., and David Sherman Lustig, R.Ph., 72, of Effingham, Illinois, have each pled guilty to an indictment charging each with felonies - illegal distribution of Schedule...

BENTON, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that a Carterville man was sentenced on June 1, 2011, in United States District Court at Benton, Illinois, on a one count indictment charging him with Possession of a Listed (Pseudoephedrine) Knowing it...

BENTON, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that a Thompsonville man plead guilty on May 31, 2011, in United States District Court at Benton, Illinois, to a one count indictment charging him with Conspiracy to Manufacture a Controlled (Methamphetamine). Jonathan...

BENTON, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that a Dalgren man, who plead guilty on February 25, 2010, was sentenced on May 27, 2011, in United States District Court at Benton, Illinois, on an indictment charging him with Possession of...