DETROIT, MI - An indictment charging six defendants with mortgage fraud, arson, marijuana trafficking and money laundering was unsealed today after many of those charged were arrested, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. Ms. McQuade was joined in the announcement by U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in...

ALBUQUERQUE, NM - DEA Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and United States Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales announced that on June 30, 2011, five defendants who reside in Valencia and Socorro Counties were arrested on federal methamphetamine trafficking charges. The defendants, who are charged in criminal complaints, were arrested...

MIDLAND, TX -- - DEA Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced the arrests of two Midland-Odessa area members and one associate of the Barrio (BA) criminal organization on federal drug charges. The charges stem from a year-and-a-half-long investigation into the organization’s...

DETROIT, MI - Robert L. Corso, Special Agent in Charge of the Detroit Field Division, Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced today the immediate suspension of the federal controlled substance Registration of Keysource Medical, a wholesale supplier of pharmaceuticals. Keysource Medical, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, has been the subject of a DEA...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, Donald A. Davis, announced today that Asante Parker, 32, of Lansing, Michigan, was sentenced to serve 262 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute 1,000 kilograms...

OWENSBORO, KY - David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky announced today that the last two defendants in a Henderson County drug conspiracy have been sentenced in United States District Court. The sentencing of Lewis Smithhart and William Coomes, both of Henderson, Kentucky, brings to...

PADUCAH, KY - David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky, announced today that Dwayne Michael Joseph was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. The sentencing of Joseph by U.S. District Chief Judge Thomas B. Russell, brings to conclusion...

CINCINNATI, OH - The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Robert L. Corso announced today the immediate suspensions of the DEA Certificate of Registration for four physicians and a pharmacy operating in Scioto County, Ohio. The DEA served Immediate Suspension (ISO) on physicians Margy Temponeras, John Temponeras, Mark...

CINCINNATI, OH - A United States District Court jury convicted Dr. Paul H. Volkman of illegally prescribing and dispensing millions of pain pills outside the scope of a legitimate medical practice which resulted in the deaths of four people between 2003 and 2005. He faces at least 20 years in...

BEAUMONT, TX - A 51-year-old Spring Hill, Florida man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas Hinojosa and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. Tony Darrell Fuzz pleaded guilty to possession with intent to...