COLUMBUS, OHIO - Stephen A. Cagle, 46, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 36 months in prison for distributing cocaine and money laundering. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Joseph P. Reagan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - On December 10, 2014, a federal grand jury indicted 16 individuals for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy that brought heroin into Youngstown, Ohio. An additional 37 people were charged in state court for violations related to the heroin trafficking. The indictments were announced by Steven...

HONOLULU - Kali Lotoaiki Laulea, 33, of Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i County, Hawaii, was sentenced to 155 months imprisonment for three counts of methamphetamine distribution. A federal jury found Laulea guilty of the three charges in August of this year after a five-day trial. Florence T. Nakakuni, United States Attorney for the...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - A federal grand jury returned an Indictment charging nine defendants with federal conspiracy for their alleged roles in supplying and distributing heroin in Benton Harbor, Michigan, U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today. A joint investigation led by the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Federal Bureau of Investigation...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has indicted three more people in connection with a series of violent crimes including 13 unsolved murders as well as other attempted murders, drug trafficking, weapons trafficking, extortion and robbery. The addition to the indictment includes an additional 23 felonies, including one murder...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles area physician pleaded not guilty to federal drug trafficking charges that allege he illegally distributed drugs, to include the powerful and addictive painkiller oxycodone. Dr. Daniel Cham, 47, was arraigned on a 31-count indictment late Thursday afternoon after he was arrested at his residence...

RENO, Nev. - A man who supervised and directed an illegal drug distribution operation in Reno from his home in southern California, was sentenced on Monday, Oct. 20, to 19½ years in federal prison and five years of supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden, for the District of...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - An Akron physician pleaded guilty to illegally prescribing hundreds of thousands of doses of painkillers and other pills to customers for no legitimate medical purpose, even after he learned some customers had died from overdose-related deaths, law enforcement officials said. Adolph Harper, Jr., 64, pleaded guilty to...

DETROIT - Two individuals from metro-Detroit were sentenced today to life in prison after having been convicted of violating various federal drug laws in a massive drug ring that trafficked hundreds of kilograms of heroin and cocaine, and thousands of pounds of marijuana in metro-Detroit, announced United States Attorney Barbara...

LAS VEGAS - Victor Bruce, M.D., 49, who operates Swan Lake Medical Center in Las Vegas, was sentenced this afternoon to 46 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release for writing prescriptions for oxycodone for persons he did not see or treat. Bruce, who pleaded guilty in...