DETROIT - Forty-Four individuals have been charged in a health care fraud and drug distribution scheme, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. McQuade was joined in the announcement by Special Agent in Charge Robert L. Corso of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Special Agent in Charge Robert D. Foley...

EL PASO, Texas - In El Paso, 23-year old Gonzalo Delgado-Chavez of Namiquipa, Chihuahua, Mexico, was sentenced to 262 months in federal prison for his role in the kidnapping and murder of three individuals during a wedding ceremony in Juarez, Mexico in May of 2010 announced United States Attorney Robert...

Date: March 20, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 LEXINGTON, Ky.) - The owner of pain clinics in Georgetown and Dry Ridge, Kentucky, previously indicted for drug trafficking and money laundering offenses, was arraigned March 19th, 2013, on additional federal charges. According to the new charges, Ernest William...

DETROIT - A superseding indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Detroit was unsealed yesterday morning, charging thirteen individuals for their participation in a large-scale health care fraud and drug distribution scheme, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. McQuade was joined in her announcement by Special Agent...

Public Information Officer 915-832-6074 (ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) -Thirteen residents of Cibola County, N.M., have been charged with drug trafficking and firearms charges as a result of a multi-agency investigation spearheaded by the DEA, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales, Thirteen Judicial District Attorney Lemuel L. Martinez, Special Agent in Charge Joseph...

CINCINNATI - Today, Robert L. Corso, Special Agent in Charge, Detroit Field Division, Drug Enforcement (DEA), along with Kerry B. Harvey, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, jointly announced the culmination of an Organized...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - - Twenty-one individuals have been charged with using fraudulent prescriptions to unlawfully obtain Oxycodone, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales, Second Judicial District Attorney Kari E. Brandenburg, Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) El Paso Field Division, and Executive Director Larry...

MIDLAND, TX - -In Midland today, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging 38-year-old former Odessa Police officer Jackie Lynn Thompson and five other Odessa, Texas, residents in connection with a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy announced Joseph M. Arabit, Special Agent in Charge of the El Paso Division of the...

Four additional co-conspirators previously pled guilty COLUMBUS, Ohio - A U.S. District Court jury here today convicted Sontay T. Smotherman, 36, of Columbus of operating a drug house at his residence. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Robert L. Corso, Special Agent in Charge...

LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Richmond, Kentucky man with a lengthy criminal history was sentenced today to more than 250 months for dealing cocaine and using his retail store to conceal his drug trafficking activity. U.S. District Court Judge Joseph M. Hood sentenced 30-year-old Jakolbe Chenault, aka, “Kolbe Cheese,” for conspiracies...