BEAUMONT, Texas - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that seven individuals have been arrested following a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking in the Eastern and Southern Districts of Texas. On Feb. 24, 2016, a combined...

AUSTIN, Texas - Fifteen individuals are in custody today charged federally with participating in a methamphetamine distribution and money laundering scheme announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. A federal grand jury indictment, returned in Austin...

MEDFORD, Ore. - Jonathan Robert Quaccia, 35, originally of Ashland, Oregon, was sentenced on February 17, 2016, to two years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit money laundering. U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken also ordered the defendant to serve three years of supervised release upon his release from prison...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On February 17, 2016, a Federal Grand Jury in the District of Alaska returned an indictment charging a Palmer man with multiple drug felonies, including one count of distributing heroin that led to the death of a young man who used the heroin. “Nationwide, a drug overdose...

BOISE, Idaho - Christopher “Farley” Woods, 57, of San Clemente, California, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Woods was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise on August 11, 2015. According to the plea agreement, Woods admitted that between 2008, and June 9, 2015, he conspired to...

BEAUMONT, Texas - A 59 year old Orange, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for conspiring to possess “crack” cocaine and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. Grover...

BOISE, Idaho - Michael Angelo Sapp, 40, of Pensacola, Florida, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 300 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and unlawful possession of a firearm. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge...

SEATTLE - Investigators with the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the Seattle Police (SPD) arrested the owner and operator of a number of ‘clean and sober’ residential facilities on February 9, 2016, following an investigation that revealed the man was dealing illegal drugs. Timothy Rehberg, 50, of Everett was arrested Tuesday...

LAREDO, Texas - Nearly two dozen people have been ordered to prison in relation to a drug conspiracy involving heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. All were charged in a 2013 indictment alleging members and associates...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Bryan M. Bledsoe, of Las Vegas, was sentenced to 36 months in prison on February 2, 2016, for using his employment at McCarran International Airport to aid drug traffickers in sneaking large quantities of cocaine past security and onto Alaska-bound flights. Bledsoe previously pleaded guilty to conspiring...