(DETROIT) – A Detroit man was sentenced yesterday to 30 years in prison for the January 2017 sale of fentanyl laced heroin that resulted in the death of a 36 year old Westland man, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider. Schneider was joined in the announcement by Special Agent in...

(FRESNO, Calif.) – An eight-month operation by the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and has netted numerous arrests and seizures: - 7 search warrants served - 46 lbs. methamphetamine seized - 211 marijuana plants eradicated - 3 lbs. processed marijuana seized...

(SAN FRANCISO) –Carlos Maturana was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen. The sentence was handed down...

(DETROIT) – An indictment was unsealed today charging three pharmacists, one doctor and two other individuals with conspiracy to illegally distribute prescription drugs, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today. Attorney General Jeff Sessions joined U.S. Attorney Schneider in the announcement, along with Michael Bouchard, Oakland County Sheriff, Special Agent in...

SAN FRANCISO - Drs. William Longton, Ruben Kalra, and Richard Shinaman have agreed to collectively pay $260,000 to settle allegations by the U.S. Department of Justice that they failed to keep and maintain adequate records and other allegations pertaining to controlled substances at their Novato, Pleasant Hill, and Pleasanton offices...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Today, just as trial was set to begin, Martin Gasca-Rojas, 49, of Mexico, pleaded guilty to three counts of distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen announced. According to court documents, between October 2016 and May 2017...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez sentenced Gordon Owen Miller, 60, of Clayton, to 20 years in prison for methamphetamine trafficking, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen announced. On February 7, 2018, after a five-day trial, a federal...

SAN FRANCISCO - Peyton Erwin Eidson was sentenced this morning to 36 months in prison for aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to distribute marijuana, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse, Special Agent in Charge Matthew Perlman of the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service San Francisco Field Office...

SAN FRANCISCO - Northern Californians did their part to drop off unused, unwanted, or expired prescription medications during the DEA’s 15th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, at more than 150 sites in the region. Together with our local, state, and federal partners DEA collected and destroyed 30,172 (15 tons)...

COLUMBUS, Ohio. - Law enforcement officials arrested 14 individuals today in Operation Purple Drank. The 14 were previously indicted by a federal grand jury on charges unsealed today of conspiring to distribute codeine-promethazine, obtaining controlled substances by fraud and illegally using DEA registration numbers. Timothy J. Plancon, Special Agent-in-Charge of...