June 24, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 DETROIT - A former City of Detroit police officer was sentenced to prison today for leaking sensitive and confidential law enforcement information to a drug trafficker, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. McQuade was joined in the announcement by...

June 23, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 COVINGTON, Ky. - A Covington, Ky., man admitted in federal court today he sold heroin that resulted in a death. Timothy Tingle-Brown, 29, pleaded guilty today to causing the death of John Baum by distributing heroin before U.S. District Court...

HOUSTON - A multi-count federal indictment has been unsealed following the arrest of 11 individuals throughout south Texas and the Houston areas, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Brian M. Moskowitz, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security (HSI)...

LAREDO, Texas - A total of 24 alleged members of a cocaine, crack and marijuana trafficking network have been arrested and charged in an indictment with multiple violations of federal law, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A 25th...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Jose Angel Marichalar, 33, Phillip Cross, 56, and Yisnel Garcia Gonzalez, 30, have all entered guilty pleas in a trial set to begin today, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Marichalar, from Mission, pleaded guilty shortly...

June 04, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 DAYTON, OHIO - Julia Immaculata Lucente, 55 of Dayton, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to illegally prescribing oxycodone while she was a physician at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Dayton. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for...

June 04, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 CLEVELAND - A Federal grand jury returned a 53-count criminal indictment on June 3, 2014, which charged pharmacist Osama Salouha, 41, his wife Samah Salouha, 36, both of Strongsville, Ohio, and pharmacist Sbeih Sbeih, 45, of North Olmsted, Ohio, with...

May 29, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 COLUMBUS, Ohio - Terry Dragash, DO, 59, of Pataskala, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court, in Columbus, Ohio, to conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Kathy Enstrom, Special...

May 29, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 COLUMBUS, Ohio - Anthony D. Scott, 28, of Columbus was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 240 months in prison for distributing the heroin that led to the overdose death of a Columbus man in August 2013. Carter M...

May 29, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 COVINGTON, Ky. - On May 29, 2014, U.S. District Judge Amul Thapar sentenced 34-year-old Nicholas Sandlin to 151 months in prison and placed him on supervised release for life, after he completes his prison term. Sandlin admitted to conspiring with...