NEW ORLEANS – Major investigations and arrest operations have taken place in Lafourche, Terrebonne and St. John Parishes over the past year, resulting in the indictments and arrests of over two dozen defendants facing multiple federal and state drug and gun charges, announced the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, the...

DENVER – Jessica Sharman, 35, of Arapahoe County, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello to tampering with a consumer product, specifically stealing fentanyl meant for patients from the intensive care unit at Parker Adventist Hospital in Douglas County, announced U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn, DEA Denver...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A federal grand jury yesterday issued a 135-count second superseding indictment charging a Fultondale doctor, Paul Roberts, M.D., with 31 additional counts of dispensing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose, announced the Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Alabama. The...

DENVER – John Van Wu, 49, of Golden, pleaded guilty today to one count of distributing oxycodone outside the usual course of medical practice and for no legitimate purpose, announced U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn and DEA Denver Division Special Agent in Charge William McDermott. The plea was accepted by U.S...

WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. – A major arrest operation took place Wednesday morning in West Memphis where 22 were arrested as part of a federal drug investigation. Assistant Special Agent in Charge Justin King of the DEA Little Rock Field Office and United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A Madison County physician pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to charges related to illegally distributing and dispensing prescription drugs, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris and U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town. Dr. Rodney Morris, 64, pleaded guilty before a U.S. District...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – On Wednesday, May 29, 2019, a Montgomery, Alabama nurse practitioner, Lilian Ifeoma Akwuba, 40, received a 10-year sentence for her part in helping run two separate “pill mill” operations in Montgomery over a four-year period, announced Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris with the Drug Enforcement...

NEW ORLEANS – Morris & Dickson Company LLC has agreed to pay the United States $22 million in civil penalties to resolve claims that it violated the Controlled Substances Act by failing to report suspicious orders of hydrocodone and oxycodone, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Brad L...

DENVER – Dr. John Alan Littleford, DO, age 73, of Manhattan, Kansas and formerly of Parker, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn to serve 87 months in federal prison followed by three years on supervised release for charges related to the illegal distribution...

DENVER – With robust public participation over the course of 16 prior events, the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Initiative continues to remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to misuse, theft or abuse by family members and visitors, including...