NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – Two Hampton men pleaded guilty today to their respective roles in a multi-kilogram drug trafficking conspiracy that operated in the peninsula area of the Hampton Roads. According to court documents, Marcid Byrd, 35, was a cocaine source of supply to Damarcus Mackie, 44. Once Byrd was...

BALTIMORE – U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Devron Lasha Young, Jr., age 22, of Baltimore, Maryland, yesterday to five years in federal prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute approximately 75 grams of fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl—enough to kill 37,500 people...

BALTIMORE – Roger Taylor, aka “Milk”, age 28, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to the federal charges of conspiring to participate in a violent racketeering enterprise known as Trained To Go, and to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances. Taylor, a fugitive since July 2017, was arrested...

DALLAS - Eight alleged gang members were arrested in a large-scale takedown Thursday, charged with gun and drug crimes, announced Special Agent in Charge Eduardo A. Chavez.of the Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox. “357 Crips” gang members Dwight Alexander Frank...

BALTIMORE – U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today sentenced Malik Moseley, age 28, of Baltimore, Maryland, to seven years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Moseley was charged as part of the federal-state initiative announced in...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – A Hampton woman was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin and 500 grams or more of cocaine. According to court documents, Kimberly Massenburg, 45, served as a go-between for...

MARSHALL, Texas – A 31-year-old Hallsville, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Eduardo A. Chavez nd U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today. Mark McLean Farmer pleaded guilty on Aug. 16...

DALLAS – DEA Dallas Division Special Agent in Charge Eduardo A. Chavez and United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey S. Berman announced today the unsealing of four indictments charging Miguel Cespedes, Omar Mogollon, Luis Felipe Gonzalez Arcila, Ivan Rojas Acosta, Alex Barrera Forero and David...

ABINGDON, Va. – Two members of a drug distribution organization that trafficked methamphetamine, heroin, oxycodone, cocaine, and other drugs from Georgia into Southwest Virginia were recently sentenced in federal court on drug conspiracy charges. In a hearing this week, Roy Lee Dykes, 61, of Watkinsville, Ga., formerly of Big Stone...

BALTIMORE – U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett today sentenced Paul Alexander, aka David Paul Hayes, aka “Shorty”, age 47, of Hanover, Maryland, to 35 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, on five federal charges including conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, two counts of possession with...