SEATTLE, WA - Seven members of a drug conspiracy with ties to the Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle gang were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment and probation today for their roles in trafficking thousands of pounds of B.C. Bud marijuana and cocaine across the U.S./Canada border. Jody York, 36, of...

BOISE - Cooper Tyson Chapin, 23, of Twin Falls, Idaho, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boise, Idaho to 24 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone, the U.S. Cooper is the fourth and final defendant sentenced in the Twin Falls area oxycodone trafficking conspiracy. U.S...

BOISE, IDAHO - - Former pharmacist Jason J. Jungert, 36, of Lewiston, Idaho, was sentenced March 22, 2011 to five years probation for acquiring a controlled substance by deception. The probation terms prohibit Jungert from being employed as a pharmacist and require him to undergo intensive drug treatment and testing...

TACOMA, Wash. - Colin Charles Crowe, 27, of Maple Ridge, B.C., Canada, was sentenced on March 21, 2011 in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiracy to import a controlled substance. Crowe and Kyle Grayson Gadsby were arrested May...

ANCHORAGE, AK. - Acting Special Agent in Charge, Mark Thomas and United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced on March 21, 2011 that two Sacramento men were indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute oxycodone in Juneau, Alaska...

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...