(MIAMI) - A French national who was serving at times as an administrator and senior moderator on one of the largest dark web criminal marketplaces pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances and conspiracy to launder money. Gal Vallerius, aka “Oxymonster,” 36, pleaded...

(TAMPA, Fla.) - Skyler Christopher Sanders (33, Bradenton) was sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine, cocaine base, heroin, methamphetamine, carfentanil, and fentanyl. He pleaded guilty on December 21, 2017. According to court documents, Sanders and his associates sold drugs out of a house in...

(TAMPA, Fla.) - Tony Marvin Johnson (34, Bradenton) was sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in federal prison for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. He had pleaded guilty on December 7, 2017. According to court documents, on June 15, 2017, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Tampa District...

(ORLANDO, Fla.) - Harold Omar Vargas-Delgado (33, Kissimmee), Cary Mitchelle Vargas-Delgado (34, Orlando), and Angel Ruben Maldonado, Jr. (42, Orlando) pleaded guilty today to charges related to their involvement in multiple conspiracies to distribute heroin throughout central Florida. In addition, Harold Omar Vargas-Delgado pleaded guilty to possessing with the intent...

(OCALA, Fla.) - Tirso Hernandez-(35, Ocala) was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl. A federal jury found him guilty on February 21...

LOS ANGELES - More than 500 law enforcement personnel executed a major operation this morning, taking into custody 32 defendants who are charged in two federal racketeering indictments, one of which outlines how members of the Mexican Mafia were able to control drug smuggling, narcotics sales and the extortion of...

LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles resident has been sentenced to 320 months in federal prison for participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy that imported acetylfentanyl, a drug very similar to fentanyl, a powerful and highly addictive opioid. Acetylfentanyl, which is five times more potent that heroin, is not...

(WESTON, Fla.) - The former National Director of Anti-Corruption in Colombia and an attorney from Colombia were extradited yesterday to the United States to face wire fraud and money laundering charges related to the promotion of foreign bribery. Luis Gustavo Moreno Rivera, 36, the former National Director of Anti-Corruption in...

(MIAMI) - Honduran national Sergio Neftali Mejia-Duarte - was sentenced today to life in prison for his involvement in a large-scale international narcotics transportation organization. On January 9, 2018, a Miami jury found Mejia-Duarte, 41, guilty of conspiring to distribute over five kilograms of cocaine with the knowledge that the...

RENO, Nev. - A Reno man was sentenced today to 144 months in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute U-47700, a dangerous synthetic opioid with street names “China White” and “Pinky” that is more potent than morphine, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of...