BOISE, IDAHO - - Enrique Manuel Ruiz-Soto, 45, of Riverside, California, was sentenced March 14, 2011 to 72 months in prison for conspiracy with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Ruiz-Soto was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine and serve 10 years of supervised release following his prison term. Ruiz-Soto pled guilty...

BOISE, IDAHO - - Enrique Manuel Ruiz-Soto, 45, of Riverside, California, was sentenced March 14, 2011 to 72 months in prison for conspiracy with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Ruiz-Soto was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine and serve 10 years of supervised release following his prison term. Ruiz-Soto pled guilty...

BALTIMORE, MD. - U.S. District Judge Benson Everett Legg sentenced Eric Griffin, 31, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to more than 12 years in prison, followed by three years of supervisedrelease, for possession with intent to distribute heroin. The sentence was announced by Special Agent in Charge Ava Cooper-Davis of the...

BALTIMORE, MD. - At least 425 law enforcement officers from DEA, Baltimore Police Department, U.S. Marshals Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Baltimore County Police Department participated in an enforcement operation resulting in the seizure of heroin, marijuana, guns and approximately $69,000 in cash. Thirty-eight defendants...

WASHINGTON, D.C - . - Thirty-five members and associates of the Barrio (BA) gang have been charged in a third superseding indictment unsealed today with various counts of racketeering, murder, drug offenses, money laundering and obstruction of justice, announced Administrator Michele Leonhart of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA). Of the...

SEATTLE, WASH - Andres Rene Rodriguez, 25, of Shoreline, Washington, was convicted March 3, 2011 in U.S. District Court in Seattle on ten counts related to drug trafficking and gun possession. Rodriguez faces a range of five years to life in prison, when sentenced by U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman...

SEATTLE - Jolene Larsen, 38, a Licensed Practical (LPN) at a Snohomish, Washington nursing home, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to a year in prison and three years of supervised release for tampering with consumer products. In her plea agreement dated November 11, 2010, Larsen admitted...

TACOMA, WASH - Billy Miranda Flores, 41, of Puyallup and Danny Lee Sherwood, 26, of Federal Way, were convicted today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma of a drug distribution conspiracy operated out of two smoke shops on Tribal Trust Land. Flores was convicted of conspiracy to distribute oxycodone, distribution...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Acting Special Agent in Charge, Mark Thomas and United States Attorney Karen Loeffler announced today that a Wasilla man was indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage for drug conspiracy. The one-count indictment names Jory Kenneth Pritchett, 20, of Wasilla, Alaska, as the sole defendant. The...

BOISE, IDAHO - Ten people were indicted in U.S. District Court in Boise, Idaho, on February 10, 2011, on numerous narcotics trafficking and firearms charges. According to the four separate indictments, which were unsealed today, the defendants are accused of conspiring together and with others to distribute controlled substances, including...