EAST ST. LOUIS, IL. - Luis Gonzalos Hernandez-Barahono, 23, a citizen of Honduras, who is currently in the United States illegally, was sentenced in federal district court in East St. Louis today for his role in an organization responsible for distributing multiple kilogram quantities of cocaine in the Metro-East area...

ST. LOUIS, MO. - The DEA and The United States Attorney’s Office in St. Louis announced today that Gregory L. Loomans pled guilty to one charge of conspiracy to possess and distribute human growth hormone drugs. According to court documents, Loomans was a body-builder who frequented gyms in St. Charles...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL. - Abdu Newby, 29, from Belleville, IL, was sentenced on December 19, 2011 in District Court in East St. Louis, IL, on one count of Possession with the Intent to Distribute Crack Cocaine, the DEA announced today. Newby was sentenced to 24 months in prison, 2...

Seventeen San Antonio-based members of the Texas (TS) have been charged by federal grand jury indictment with conspiring to violate the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt (RICO) statute. The announcement was made today by United States Attorney Robert Pitman, DEA Special Agent in Charge Javier Pena, U.S. Marshal Robert Almonte, ATF Special...

ST. LOUIS, MO - The Drug Enforcement Administration, in collaboration with 32 other Law Enforcement Agencies, conducted an aggressive and unprecedented heroin enforcement operation resulting in the arrest of 53 individuals. DEA Special Agent in Charge Harry S. Sommers of the St. Louis Field Division announced the arrests, which mark...

BENTON, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that a Grand Tower, Ill., man and woman pled guilty on September 8, 2011, to Conspiracy to Manufacture Methamphetamine. Eddie O. Allen, III, 33, and Samantha Johnson, 32, both of Grand Tower...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL - . - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on September 8, 2011, Mark Clarke, 56, and David Clarke, 34, a father and son originally from Jamaica, but living and working in Kansas City, MO, pled guilty...

BENTON, IL - - Stephen R. Wigginton , United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that David Sherman Lustig, 72, of Effingham, Illinois, was sentenced on an indictment charging illegal distribution of Schedule II controlled substance, Oxycodone, and Schedule III controlled substance, Hydrocodone. The offenses involved dispensing...

BENTON, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that a Carbondale, Illinois man was sentenced in federal court in Benton to life in prison on August 8, 2011, on a conviction for conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. On August 8, 2011...

KANSAS CITY, MO. - An effort led by Kansas City Police put more than 160 law enforcement officers in the most violent areas of the city for three days to attack violent crime. From August 3 - 5, this year’s violent crime initiative follows up and expands on the success...