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...

TRENTON, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Paul J. Fishman, U.S Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a licensed pharmacist pleaded guilty in federal court today to attempting to develop, produce and possess the potentially deadly...

May 21, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 CINCINNATI - The owner of three southern Ohio pain clinics, Tracy Bias, 49, of West Portsmouth, Ohio, was sentenced to spend 168 months in prison, serve another ten years under court supervision, and ordered to forfeit $6,348,000. The specific dollar...

May 12, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 MAY (DETROIT) - Three individuals from metro-Detroit were 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...

May 7, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 DETROIT - A ninety-year old man from Indiana was sentenced today to three years in federal prison for his role as a drug courier for a major cocaine trafficking organization with direct ties to the Joquin Guzman (a/k/a “Chapo” Guzman)...

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced two leaders of a Bloods street gang set known as the “Red Breed Guerillas” were sentenced today to prison...

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced an internal affairs officer of the Miami-Dade Police Department was arrested this morning in Miami Gardens, Fla., and charged...

TRENTON - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced that six alleged members of a drug ring were indicted today on first-degree charges for allegedly operating a heroin mill and distributing large quantities of...

March 18, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 LEXINGTON, Ky. - A former doctor in Paintsville, Kentucky, has admitted to his role in a conspiracy that was responsible for illegally distributing more than 25,000 Controlled Substance prescription pills in the eastern half of Kentucky. On Monday, March 17th...