FEB 2 -- A DEA asset seizure made in March 2003 recently was distributed to the Virginia law enforcement agencies that participated in the large-scale marijuana investigation - dubbed Operation Weed B Truckin. Paul McNulty, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, presented the asset sharing checks to...

JAN 19 -- Shawn A. Johnson, Special Agent in Charge of DEA’s Washington Division announced today that William Henry Muldrow, age 61, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone and more than five grams of crack cocaine in connection...

Special Agent in Charge of DEA’s Washington Division, Shawn A. Johnson, announced that Muzaffar Khan Afridi, age 70, and his son Alamdar Khan Afridi, age 29, of Pakistan, were convicted after a four-week trial on 13 counts relating to their family’s international heroin trafficking organization. Each defendant was convicted of...

NOV 17 - Denver- Today, Jeffrey D. Sweetin, Special Agent in Charge of the Denver Field Division, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), District of Colorado United States Attorney Bill Leone, and Larimer County Drug Task Force Commander Craig Dodd announced the conclusion of an eight month investigation into a major methamphetamine...

Shawn A. Johnson, Special Agent in Charge of DEA’s Washington Division, announced today that Steven Craig Frost, age 35, Toni Lea Frost, age 31, and Gary Michael Shuttleworth, age 36, all of Washington County, Virginia, were sentenced to nearly two decades in prison for their role in manufacturing methamphetamine. Each...

NOV 1 - Denver- Today, Jeffrey D. Sweetin, Special Agent in Charge of the Denver Field Division, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) along with El Paso County District Attorney John R. Newsome announced the arrest of eight defendants, the seizure of 14 kilograms of cocaine, approximately a kilogram of methamphetamine “ice”...

NOV 1 - Denver- On October 31, 2005, Jeffrey D. Sweetin, Special Agent in Charge of the Denver Field Division, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and United States Attorney for the District of Utah Paul M. Warner announced that a federal grand jury has indicted 15 individuals in Utah and Colombia...

Denver, CO - Jeffrey D. Sweetin, Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Rocky Mountain Division and Bill Leone, United States Attorney for the District of Colorado, announced today that King Soopers, City Market, and their parent company, Kroger, have agreed to pay a record $7...

Grand Junction, Colorado- Jeffrey D. Sweetin, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Rocky Mountain Division, Bill Leone, United States Attorney for the District of Colorado, Jeffrey Copp, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Denver Office, Stan Hilkey, Mesa County Sheriff, and...

OCT 20 -- Special Agent in Charge of DEA’s Washington Division, Shawn A. Johnson, announced the sentencing of Wyatt Wood, 42, of Washington, DC, by United States District Court Judge Thomas F. Hogan to 188 months imprisonment following his earlier guilty plea to federal drug trafficking charges. On April 19...