DENVER – The Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division (RMFD) – in conjunction with federal and local partners – executed a federal search warrant on 6600 Federal Boulevard in Adams County, Colorado just before 5 a.m. MT today. Based on months-long investigative work, it was determined this makeshift nightclub...

COLORADO SPRINGS – An incoming tip based on the premise of “see something, say something” leads to the seizure of approximately 670,000 fentanyl pills in Colorado and New Mexico. Earlier this month, a tip out of Albuquerque led to the arrest of a man in Colorado Springs, suspected of transporting...

DENVER – On January 17, 2024, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division joined the U.S. Department of State to announce a reward offer of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Mexican national Jesus Gonzalez- Penuelas, also known as “Chuy” Gonzalez...

DENVER – El 17 de enero de 2024, la División de Campo de las Montañas Rocosas de la DEA de los Estados Unidos se unió al Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos para anunciar una oferta de recompensa de hasta $5 millones de dólares a cambio de información que...

Brighton, CO — Today, the DEA Rocky Mountain Field Division joined Colorado's 17th Judicial District Attorney Brian Mason, the Drug Trafficking Unit of the Adams County DA's Office, and the North Metro Task Force to announce grand jury indictments against nine people accused of funneling fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine into...

GREAT FALLS, Mont. — A Great Falls woman who admitted to dealing methamphetamine and heroin for a drug trafficking organization based in Mexico was sentenced on Monday to five years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release. Katie Marie Marceau, 38, pleaded guilty in March to...

BUTTE, Mont. — A multi-agency investigation into a drug trafficking organization with ties to the Sinaloa Cartel, which brought massive quantities of methamphetamine, counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl and heroin to Butte for redistribution, has resulted in the federal convictions of 22 people. U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich hosted a press...

DENVER – On Friday, December 2, 2022, the DEA Rocky Mountain Division, in coordination with the Rocky Mountain HIDTA Front Range Task Force (FRTF), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Denver Division, and the Longmont Police Department Special Investigations Unit (SIU) seized almost 45 pounds of a fentanyl and cocaine mixture and...

DENVER – Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Timothy J. Shea today announced that the DEA will direct resources to help reduce violent crime in communities throughout the country. Under this initiative, called Project Safeguard, DEA will identify and prioritize ongoing drug trafficking investigations with a nexus to violent crime. “D...

CASPER, Wyo. - Chief Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl sentenced Arnold Devonne Butler, 54, today in Casper. Butler was convicted on January 17, 2020 after a 4-day jury trial and found guilty on all counts, including possession with intent to distribute and conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine...