NEW ORLEANS - Antwine Smith, age 39, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, over one kilogram of heroin. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced the plea. Smith...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Jesus Valenzuela, aka Jesus Valenzuela-Cruz, 42, of Springdale, Ark. was sentenced today to 174 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. He was also ordered to pay a $4,000 fine. Drug Enforcement...

NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that Trey Mitchell, age 24, of New Orleans, was sentenced today for attempted distribution of heroin using a cell phone smuggled into the Orleans Parish Prison. U.S. District Judge Kurt...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris and George L. Beck, Jr., United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, announced today Stephen K. Howard, 64, of Auburn, Alabama, was sentenced to 8 years and 6 months in prison for possessing with the...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Pawankumar Jain, 63, a physician whose license has been revoked, entered a guilty plea this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to unlawfully dispensing controlled substances and health care fraud. The guilty plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special Agent in...

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Matthew Barden and Kenneth Elser, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Susan Marie Sheets, age 42, of Hot Springs, was sentenced this week to 87 months in federal prison followed by three...

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Matthew Barden and Kenneth Elser, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that three men were sentenced for drug and firearm related offenses in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Jerry Lee Rudkin, 30, was sentenced...

NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that a federal jury convicted Jorge Perralta, age 33, of Pasadena, Texas, and Paul Norris, age 57, of Houston, Texas, of a drug conspiracy charge, following a four-day trial. Perralta and...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Matthew Barden and Kenneth Elser, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Gilberto Ray Ramos of Springdale, Arkansas, was sentenced to 148 months in federal prison followed by three years supervised release on one...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Rodrigo Ivan Cazares, 34, a legal permanent resident from Zamora, Michoacan, Mexico who resides in Artesia, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., for a narcotics trafficking conviction involving more than 4.5 (ten pounds) of pure methamphetamine. Cazares was sentenced to 168 months...