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...

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...

LOS ANGELES - A Rowland Heights doctor was sentenced to 30 years to life in state prison for prescribing large amounts of addictive and dangerous drugs to patients with no legitimate need, three of whom died of overdoses. Hsiu Ying “Lisa” Tseng, 46, was sentenced by Los Angeles County Superior...

LOS ANGELES - A medical doctor who served as the face of a sham Los Angeles clinic pleaded guilty today to federal drug trafficking and money laundering charges connected to her illegal distribution of the powerful painkiller best known by the brand name OxyContin. Dr. Madhu Garg, 64, of Glendora...

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...