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...

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. - 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...

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...

SAN JUAN, PR. - - On Tuesday, a federal grand jury indicted 34 individuals who participated in a scheme to dispense, obtain and distribute prescription medications for financial gain, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. It was part of the scheme where Doctors...

SAN JUAN, PR. - - Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Javier F. Peña, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Caribbean Division, announced the unsealing of a July 12, 2011 indictment in the Southern District of Florida against Carlos Ruben Morales-Davila...

SAN JUAN, PR. - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) Caribbean Division collected approximately 992 pounds of prescription drugs in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands during the DEA National Take Back Day Initiative announced Javier F. Peña, Special Agent in Charge of the Caribbean Division. “This is our third National...

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...

SAN JUAN, PR. - On September 23, 2011, a federal grand jury indicted 28 individuals as a result of an investigation by the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and the United States Postal Inspection Service, with the collaboration of the Federal Bureau of (FBI) and the Puerto Rico Police (PRPD), United States...

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...