DETROIT - The U.S. Department of Justice has designated the week of September 19, 2016, as National Heroin and Opioid Awareness Week. During this week, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) offices and U.S. Attorney’s Offices across the country will be participating in programs to increase public awareness of the growing epidemic...

CLEVELAND - Two men from Mexico were charged in U.S. District Court after federal and state law enforcement personnel seized more than 200 pounds of cocaine in Cleveland on September 2nd, 2016. Antonio Navarro-Gaytan and Alejandro Cota-Luna appeared in federal court on September 7th, 2016, and were charged with conspiracy...

(LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Special Agent in Charge Timothy J. Plancon, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Detroit Field Office, joined by United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr., Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer, and Louisville Metro Police Chief Steve Conrad, announced a new collaborative investigation and prosecution program to remove heroin dealers from the...

BATON ROUGE, La. - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced yesterday that Aaron Lambert, 33, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and money laundering. During a September 13, 2016, hearing, Lambert entered his plea before a Chief U.S. District...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Tiauna Castro, 27, of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to participating in a conspiracy to launder the proceeds from the illegal sale of dangerous painkillers, including oxycodone, in central Ohio. Benjamin C. Glassman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Francisco Sanchez, 37 of Rogers, Arkansas was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Matthew Barden and Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western...

DETROIT - A superseding indictment was returned yesterday adding new criminal charges against 13 Detroit-area men accused of conspiring to distribute heroin, crack cocaine and other drugs, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. Nine of the defendants were charged with distributing fentanyl and heroin resulting in overdose death and...

LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lexington man has been sentenced to 365 months in federal prison for distributing heroin and fentanyl that resulted in the death of a 29 year-old woman, who had given birth just two weeks before her death. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves sentenced 44 year-old...

BATON ROUGE, La. - The results of another federal prosecution relating to a multi-state heroin trafficking ring were announced today by Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley and United States Attorney Walt Green. On August 24, 2016, a Chief U.S. District Judge sentenced Daryl Walker...

MONROE, La. - A Mexican citizen was sentenced Monday to 120 months in prison for conspiring to transport and distribute methamphetamine announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley. Eduardo Guerrero, 24, of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was sentenced by a...