JUN 25 - ( BALTIMORE) - Value Drug, Inc. (Value Drug) has agreed to pay $4,000,000 to the United States to resolve allegations that it violated the Controlled Substances (CSA) by failing to report suspicious orders of oxycodone to six pharmacies located in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Value Drug is a...

PORTLAND, Ore. - Rockie Morse, 40, of Sweet Home, Oregon, was indicted today for distribution of heroin that resulted in death. Also indicted, Tammy Tongate, alleged to be the Portland area source of supply, made her initial appearance in court last week. The federal charges were brought after an investigation...

BOISE, Idaho - Michael Minas, 49, of Boise, Idaho, appeared on June 13, 2014, in federal court in Boise on an indictment charging him with 17 count of distributing a controlled substance. Minas was arrested on June 12, 2014, outside of his medical practice in Eagle. Trial is set for...

EUGENE, Ore. - On June 9, 2014, Gretchan Anderson, 43, of Portland, Oregon was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 110 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Upon her release from prison, Anderson will be on supervised release for four years. Anderson is a career...

SEATTLE - Ferdinand Clay, who was shot while fleeing from the robbery of a marijuana distributor was sentenced on June 6, 2014, in U.S. District court in Seattle to 12 years in prison. On August 13, 2013, Clay, 32, and Melvin Charles Slaughter, 31, tied up and robbed Maple Valley...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Mirwaiss Aminzada, 44, of Montreal, Quebec, and Dubai, United Arab (UAE), was sentenced today to 15 months in prison, 1 year of supervised release and to pay restitution of $586,798. On Dec. 19, 2013, Aminzada pleaded guilty to introducing misbranded drugs into the United States. Karl C...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. - A West Virginia pharmacist has been indicted on charges that he dispensed prescription painkillers outside the scope of his professional practice. Karl C. Colder, Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Washington Field Division and United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced that Mario...

SEATTLE - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Washington indicted seven people late yesterday for an illegal drug distribution scheme involving an internet pharmacy. The originator of the scheme, Juan Gallinal, 41, of Pembroke Pines, Florida will be summoned to appear for arraignment in Seattle. The internet...

SEATTLE - A marijuana grower and dealer who used firearms to confront fleeing robbers, firing a dozen times in a residential neighborhood, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 32 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Jason Loken, 38, of Maple Valley, Washington, thought...

Huntington - , W.Va. - Karl C. Colder, Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Washington Field Division and United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Kenneth Dewitt Newman, also known as “K-Kutta,” 32, of Huntington pleaded guilty today in federal court in Huntington to possession with intent...