NEW ORLEANS - A 33-year old New Orleans man was sentenced today to more than 17 years in prison after pleading guilty in August to conspiring to distribute heroin and other drugs, including acetyl fentanyl shipped from China, to New Orleans area customers, announced Stephen G. Azzam the Special Agent-in-Charge...

MOBILE, Ala. - A jury has convicted defendants Xiulu Ruan and John Patrick Couch of numerous felonies following a seven-week trial, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Stephen G. Azzam and United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown. Ruan and Couch jointly owned and operated two pain management clinics under the name Physicians...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Richard Duane Johns, 49, of Little Rock pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute oxycodone without an effective prescription. John, a former doctor, was responsible for illegally distributing at least 39,000 pills, with a street value of more than $1,000,000. Johns pleaded guilty Thursday before a Chief...

DALLAS - Two defendants who pleaded guilty to their roles in a pill mill operation they were involved in during parts of 2013-2014 have been sentenced. U.S. Attorney John Parker announced that Taneisha Nickerson, 29, of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced last week to 24 months in federal prison, following her...

DALLAS - A federal grand jury in Dallas returned an indictment yesterday charging Reyes Alvarez, 32, and Pedro Calixto, 27, both of Dallas with one count each of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin. The indictment was by Clyde E. Shelley, Jr...

SHREVEPORT, La. - A man from Texas was sentenced Wednesday to over 11 years in prison for conspiring to sell methamphetamine in the Shreveport area with another Texas man, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley. Tares Terrell...

SHREVEPORT, La. - A Shreveport man was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley. Dondell Pea, 30, was sentenced by a U.S. District Judge...

SHREVEPORT, La. - A Texas man was sentenced Tuesday to more than eight and a half years in prison for distribution of methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finely. David Wayne Carlisle, 41, of Marshall, Texas, was...

DALLAS, Texas - Jose Luis Martinez-Martinez, 41, of Desoto, Texas, made his initial appearance last week before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney on a complaint, unsealed today, charging possession with intent to distribute. The charging was announced jointly by Dallas Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, Clyde Shelley...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Metin Metlu Sado, age 48, of Encinitas, California, was sentenced today to seven years in federal prison and ordered to pay a $9,900.00 fine on one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine, announced DEA Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Matthew Barden and Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the...