ST. LOUIS – A federal grand jury indicted Derek Rockette of St. Louis for charges that include conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine and fentanyl. The indictment also alleges in a money laundering conspiracy charge that Rockette, Norma Corina Armenta-Lizarraga, Jian Zhong Fang, Yuede...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A San Diego, California, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury after smuggling nearly eight pounds of fentanyl aboard a bus traveling through Kansas City, Missouri. Jonatan Gutierrez, 28, was charged with possessing fentanyl with the intent to distribute, in an indictment returned by...

ST. LOUIS – This week the Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Marshals Service, and U.S. Postal Inspection Service arrested 17 people in Missouri, Arizona, California, and Mexico linked to an organized multi-state drug trafficking conspiracy. According to the previously sealed 16 count indictment returned on October 13, 2021, this was a...

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – Deonta J. Thomas, 29, of Collinsville, Illinois, was sentenced in federal court in East St. Louis Oct. 18 to 10 years imprisonment for distribution of methamphetamine. Thomas pled guilty to this offense on May 20, 2021. As part of his guilty plea, Thomas acknowledged that...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A West Plains, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Howell, Greene, and Texas counties. Jose I. Gonzales, 39, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough to 10 years in federal prison without parole...

ST. LOUIS – Keith A. Kos, Jr., of St. Charles, Missouri, pled guilty yesterday for the crimes of distribution of fentanyl and methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and knowingly possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Sentencing is set for January 18, 2022. According to...

ST. LOUIS – Kevin Karll of Jefferson County, Missouri, pleaded guilty today for the crimes of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Sentencing has been set for Jan. 11, 2022. Kevin Karll is the first defendant to plead guilty in a multi-defendant conspiracy to distribute...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Four people received prison sentences following convictions in relation to a drug trafficking ring that operated for years in the Kansas City metropolitan area. According to court documents, the Jackson County Drug Task Force began an undercover operation in 2016 surrounding a drug trafficking ring. The...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Tori R. Carlisle, 43, was sentenced today to serve six years in federal prison following her guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. According to court documents, law enforcement officers arrested Carlisle at a truck stop in New Madrid County on July 25, 2020...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. sentenced Courtney Williams to 60 months in federal prison today for methamphetamine charges. The 46-year-old Portageville, Missouri, resident pleaded guilty in June 2021 to four counts of distribution of methamphetamine. During July, August and September 2018, on four occasions...