LUBBOCK, Texas - Sidney Caleb Lanier, 36, of Lubbock, Texas, pleaded guilty this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge D. Gordon Bryant Jr. to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas. Lanier faces a...

FT. WORTH, Texas - Seven defendants, including members and associates of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas prison gang were sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge John McBryde. U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas made today’s announcement. In September 2016 they were convicted following a four-day...

FORT SMITH, Ark. - Kenneth Goff, 45, of Kansas City, Missouri, was sentenced today to 160 months in federal prison on one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine. The sentencing decision was jointly by Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Matthew Barden and Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Today, a federal indictment was unsealed charging three Veterans (VA) employees with conspiring to steal prescription medications, including opioids, from the VA John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital in Little Rock, and conspiring to distribute those drugs. The superseding indictment, returned by a federal grand jury...

PLANO, Texas - Trinity Pharmacy in Carrollton, Texas, and one of its owners, Jonathan Paul Lipe, have agreed to pay the United States $400,000 to settle alleged violations of the Controlled Substances Act in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston. The Controlled Substances (CSA) is...

DALLAS - A registered pharmacist who owned, operated and served as the pharmacist in charge of GenPharm Pharmacy on Wheatland Road in Desoto, Texas, Ndufola Kigham, appeared in federal court this morning before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater and pleaded guilty to federal felony offenses stemming from her involvement...

SHERMAN, Texas - A Dallas physician has been sentenced to federal prison for conspiracy to sell illegal prescriptions in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today. Habiboola Niamatali, 75, of Dallas, was found guilty by a jury in July 2016 of conspiracy to distribute Hydrocodone...

MONGOMERY, Ala. - Dr. Robert M. Ritchea, 54, of LaGrange, Georgia, pled guilty to conspiring to unlawfully distribute a controlled substance through operating a “pill mill” and money laundering scheme, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Bret Hamilton and United States Attorney George L. Beck, Jr. A “pill mill”...

DALLAS - Arnoldo Rueda-Medina, known by several aliases including “La Minsa,” arrived in the United States today from Mexico to face criminal charges in connection with his top leadership roles in the “La Familia-Michoacan” Mexican drug cartel. His arrival was announced jointly by Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley...

TULSA, Okla. - John Ray James of Dewey, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Claire V. Egan to his role in a conspiracy related to the purchase and sale of $8.2 million of synthetic cannabinoids, also known as “K2,” at three retail smoke shops in Tulsa, Owasso and Claremore...