PIKEVILLE, Ky. - A Knott County man has been sentenced to four consecutive life sentences, for drug trafficking and sexually abusing the young children of parents he encountered during his drug trafficking operations. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Amul Thapar sentenced Freddie Kennedy, Jr., on one count of conspiracy to...

SEATTLE, Wash. - Two Ecuadoran brothers were indicted in the Western District of Washington for ten felony counts related to distribution of heroin and laundering the proceeds of their drug sales. Fredy Ramon Gutama-Gutama, 25, and Fabian Martin Gutama-Gutama, 20, both of Lynnwood, Washington, were observed by law enforcement between...

DETROIT, Mich. - Dr. Anthony Conrardy, age 61, and Dr. William McCutchen, III, age 46, were found guilty yesterday of unlawfully distributing Schedule II narcotics by a federal jury in Detroit, MI, acting United States Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch announced today. Dr. Anthony Conrardy was convicted of five counts of...

SEATTLE, Wash. - Enrique Aguiliar Valencia, the leader of a drug trafficking organization, who admits his connection to the Los Zetas drug cartel was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 12 years in prison. Valencia, 55, who resided in Fremont, California, led a drug distribution ring that...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A United States District Court jury convicted Frederick A. McShan, 37, and David McShan, 42, both of Steubenville, Ohio, of running a heroin-trafficking organization. Specifically, Frederick McShan was convicted of one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than one kilogram of heroin, 12...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - DEA Special Agent-in-Charge Timothy J. Plancon and U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn Jr. announced today that a Louisville man has been charged by grand jury indictment with intentionally distributing heroin to a person whose death and serious bodily injury resulted from the use of that substance. “This...

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Two Richmond, Kentucky residents have been sentenced for conspiring to distribute large quantities of fentanyl. U.S. Senior District Court Judge Joseph M. Hood sentenced Travis B. Preston, to 11 years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute 40 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Law enforcement officials announced today that a Cleveland man was indicted in federal court on charges that he sold heroin that caused at least two overdoses in Wooster, Ohio. Demetrius L. Frizzell, 30, was indicted on six counts: two counts of distribution of heroin, one count of...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Law enforcement officials announced today that six people were indicted in federal court for their roles in a drug conspiracy that resulted in the seizure of 17 kilograms of cocaine and more than $500,000 in cash. Named in the seven-count indictment are: Marty V. McCaulley, 42, of...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Today the United States Attorney’s Office For the Southern District of Ohio unsealed a plea agreement with the owner and operator of Columbus Southern Medical Center, which provided unlawful prescriptions of controlled substances to numerous individuals who were addicted to drugs, in Ohio and surrounding states. The...