APR 09 - ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On April 3, 2014, an Anchorage jury convicted Loren Kent Dodds, 48, of Palmer, Alaska, of one count of manufacturing marijuana. The jury also returned a verdict forfeiting Dodds' residence to the government because it was used to facilitate his marijuana growing operation. According...

(ST. CROIX - , U.S. Virgin Island) -A federal search warrant authorizing federal agents to search the Golden Grove Adult Correctional and Detention (Golden Grove) in St. Croix for illegal contraband was executed last night, announced Ronald W. Sharpe, United States Attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands, Vito...

BOISE, Idaho - Andrew Polney, 52, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced on April 7, 2014, in U.S. District Court to 130 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance. Polney was also sentenced to 60 months in prison followed...

SEATTLE - Today, a civil complaint was filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington against an Arizona physician who violated the Controlled Substances Act by prescribing narcotic painkillers in Washington state without having a DEA registration number in Washington. Barton Butterbaugh was the Chief Medical...

SEATTLE - A former hospital anesthesiologist was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to five years in prison and three years of supervised release for distribution of oxycodone. Hieu Tu Le, 40, of Snohomish, Washington, a medical doctor licensed in Washington State since 2004, operated medical clinics in...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On March 31, 2014, the Caribbean Corridor Strike (CCSF) intercepted a Zodiac type vessel off the coast of Dorado while attempting to smuggle a load of cocaine into Puerto Rico. Two Venezuelan nationals and 1,774 kilograms of cocaine were seized during the interdiction, announced United...

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO - This morning, the Caribbean Corridor Strike (CCSF) dismantled a drug trafficking organization responsible for the importation of multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine into Puerto Rico and the transportation of drug money between Puerto Rico-Culebra-St. Thomas announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez. On March 27, 2014...

SEATTLE - Gavin Dry, a plastic surgeon who practices in Kirkland, Washington has agreed to settle federal civil penalty claims brought by the U.S. Attorney's Office on behalf of the federal Drug Enforcement (DEA). Based on evidence and information obtained through DEA's investigation, from 2007 through 2011, Gavin Dry forged...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - U.S. Magistrate Marcos E. López authorized a complaint charging Raddif Tapia-Rivera and Estevan DeCarlos with conspiracy to import 242 kilograms of cocaine, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The U.S. Coast Guard, the Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Customs...

BOISE, Idaho - Austin Serb, 20, Christopher Snyder, 24, and Andrew Colwell, 23, of Boise, Idaho, appeared in federal court on March 11, 2014, on a nine-count federal indictment charging them and eight others with conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and heroin; distributing oxycodone, and distributing heroin. “Opiate addiction is a...