ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - This afternoon a federal jury sitting in Santa Fe, N.M., found Firas Abuzuhrieh, 38, of Albuquerque, N.M., guilty on federal synthetic drug trafficking charges after a four-day trial. The guilty verdict was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy...

SEATTLE - -A lengthy drug trafficking investigation of a criminal group with ties to California and Mexico has resulted in seventeen arrests and the seizure of pound quantities of methamphetamine and heroin. Over the last 36 hours, teams of local, state and federal law enforcement agents searched 20 locations across...

EL PASO - DEA Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg today announced that the 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time. As with the previous nine Take-Back events, sites will be set up throughout communities nationwide so local residents can return their unwanted...

SEATTLE - DEA Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg today announced that the 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time. As with the previous nine Take-Back events, sites will be set up throughout communities nationwide so local residents can return their unwanted, unneeded...

SEATTLE - Two men who invited a third man to use their Bellevue, Washington apartment for the illegal manufacturing of hash oil were sentenced to prison on July 20, 2015, in U.S. District Court in Seattle. Jesse D. Kaplan, 32, of Redmond, Washington and Daniel James Strycharske, 29, of Kirkland...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Anchorage couple was sentenced on Friday, July 17, 2015, in U.S. District Court to serve 135 months and 72 months respectively for their involvement in drug trafficking, money laundering, and gun crimes. Daniel Martin Harris, 28, of Anchorage, Alaska, previously pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Omar Alarcon Fuentes, 37, of Sunnyside, Washington, was sentenced on July 2, 2015, for distributing 50 grams or more of pure methamphetamine, and being an illegal alien in possession of ammunition. In the methamphetamine case, Fuentes was sentenced to a ten year term of imprisonment and a...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Arvin Terrill Carmen, 39, of Los Angeles, California, and Spokane, Washington, was sentenced to 50 years in prison following a five-week jury trial. Carmen was found guilty of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to distribute oxycodone, and possession with intent to distribute oxycodone. In addition...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sean Michael Warner, 29, was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for one count of distribution of heroin on June 29, 2015. Warner previously pleaded guilty on September 2, 2014 to distributing heroin. At that hearing, Warner admitted to personally injecting a 14-year-old minor with heroin...

SEATTLE - A Puyallup man responsible for making hash oil for an illegal marijuana edible operation was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 24 months in prison and three years’ supervised release. Seth M. Cleek, 22, was using highly flammable butane gas to make hash oil on...