LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Following an approximately two-month-long, ATF-led operation involving multiple state and federal agencies, dozens of defendants were recently arrested on federal and state charges. In addition, significant amounts of narcotics and numbers of firearms were seized and taken off the streets of Louisville. U.S. Attorney Kyle G. Bumgarner...

Louisville, KY – Following a lengthy investigation by the Louisville Homeland Security Task Force lead by the DEA and LMPD, a federal grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky, returned an indictment on May 20, 2026, charging 13 individuals with conspiring to distribute controlled substances, possession with intent to distribute controlled substances...

Louisville, Ky. – A Louisville man was sentenced on August 7, 2026, to 16 years in prison for distribution of fentanyl and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. U.S. Attorney Kyle Bumgarner of the Western District of Kentucky, Special Agent in Charge John Nokes of...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – On June 24, 2026, Antonio DeWayne Watkins, a/k/a “Tony Bologna” and “Gator Mac,” 32 of Chattanooga, was sentenced to 432 months of imprisonment to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, by the Honorable Curtis L. Collier, in the United States District Court for the Eastern...

KNOXVILLE, Tn. – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Louisville Field Division and United Against Fentanyl (UAF) will host a local Walk for Lives 2026 event at Covenant Health Park, Home of the Knoxville Smokies, on July 11, 2026 in support of DEA’s Fentanyl Free America initiative. Walk for Lives events...

Louisville, Ky. – A Nelson County man and woman were sentenced to federal prison on June 10, 2026, after being convicted of multiple fentanyl and cocaine trafficking offenses following a five-day jury trial in September 2025. U.S. Attorney Kyle G. Bumgarner of the Western District of Kentucky, Special Agent in...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – On May 15, 2026, Seayon Weston, 39, of Knoxville, TN, was charged via criminal complaint with fentanyl and firearms offenses in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville. The complaint charges Weston with possessing with the intent to distribute over 400...

Louisville, KY – Last week, a Louisville man was arrested and charged by complaint with possession with the intent to distribute over 400 grams of fentanyl, possession of firearms as a convicted felon, and possessing firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking. U.S. Attorney Kyle G. Bumgarner of the Western District...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – For a fifth straight year, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will show its support for “Song for Charlie” and our many valued partners in law enforcement, public health, and non-profit agencies in recognizing National Fentanyl Awareness Day on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. Six months ago, DEA intensified...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Special agents and task force officers from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Louisville Field Division seized 170,617 fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills and 177.76 kilograms of fentanyl powder since January 1, 2025. The DEA Laboratory estimates that these seizures represent nearly 89 million potentially deadly doses of fentanyl. Two milligrams...