MIAMI - There are just four days left to see the DEA traveling museum exhibit Drugs: Costs & Consequences - at the Museum of Science and Discovery in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This exhibit offers both a visual and written outlook on the cost of drugs, drugs and the body, drugs...

WESTON, Fla. - The indictment against Guy Philippe - , 48, of Haiti, was unsealed this morning at the United (U.S.) District Court in the Southern District of Florida. Philippe was arrested on January 5, 2017 in Haiti by the Haitian National Police narcotic unit that works regularly with the...

MIAMI - A federal jury found Julian Villa-Gomez Lemus, 31, of Visalia, California, guilty of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances on the internet. In the past week, his co-defendants Fadhle Muqbel Saeed, 31, and Alfonso Bojorquez-Vazquez, 30, both of Porterville, California pleaded guilty to related charges of conspiracy to distribute...

SEATTLE - Cardinal Health has agreed to pay $34 million in civil penalties to resolve allegations that the Lakeland, Florida-based distributor failed to report to the Drug Enforcement (DEA) suspicious orders of Class II controlled substances by pharmacies located in central Florida and Maryland. The settlement also resolves a civil...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Today, Maurice Abad Malabed, aka “Moe,” 47, and David Patrick Christensen, 29, both of Anchorage were indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage for trafficking in methamphetamine bound for Utqiaġvik, (formerly Barrow, Alaska). The indictment charges Malabed and Christensen with conspiracy, attempted distribution, and possession with...

TACOMA, Wash. - An investigation begun by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the West Sound Narcotics Enforcement Team in February 2014 resulted today in the arrest of 19 people with ties to a methamphetamine distribution ring. Law enforcement served 24 search warrants on locations in Washington and Arizona in connection...

MIAMI - Christopher Sharod Massena, 25, of Palm Beach County, was sentenced today to 30 years in prison followed by three years supervised release for the distribution of Fentanyl, resulting in the death of a 23 year old man. Massena was previously convicted for unlawfully distributing a controlled substance, Fentanyl...

SEATTLE - A Drug Enforcement (DEA) led task force conducted raids at 14 locations across King and Pierce Counties, as well as locations in Oregon, following a two-year investigation of a drug trafficking organization. Law enforcement searched residential and business locations in Maple Valley, Enumclaw, Ravensdale, Auburn, Kent, Federal Way...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Rachel Rangel, 29, of Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced to eight years imprisonment on November 3, 2016, for her role in a narcotics trafficking organization. U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason also ordered Rangel to serve five years of supervised release following her release from custody. On June...

SEATTLE - Eleven people were arrested yesterday in Washington and Nevada in connection with a large drug smuggling and distribution ring operating in four western Washington counties. An additional person was already in immigration custody. The arrests coincided with the execution of 24 court-authorized search warrants for properties located in...