NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced the return of a Superseding Indictment charging Houston Police Officer Noe Juarez, 46, and Mexican citizen Sergio Grimaldo, 32, with conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine hydrochloride. Juarez...

ORLANDO, Fla. - Senior U.S. District Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges has sentenced James Bryan Swoll, a/k/a “Squid,” (37, Ocala) to 10 years in federal prison for distributing five kilograms or more of cocaine and money laundering. He was also ordered to forfeit $350,000 worth of real property that was traceable...

ORLANDO, Fla. - United States District Judge Paul G. Byron today sentenced Richard (46, Viera) to 10 years in federal prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for attempting to aid and abet the distribution of cocaine. A federal jury found him guilty on January 9, 2015. According to...

PENSACOLA, Fla. - Rodney D. Butler, a/k/a “Rodney Davenport,” 48, of the Houston, Texas, area, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute more than 50 kilograms of cocaine and conspiring to launder tens of thousands of dollars in cocaine-derived currency. The plea was announced today by A.D. Wright, Acting Special...

LAFAYETTE, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Joseph W. Shepherd and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Carencro Police officer pleaded guilty to receiving cash payments from James Panos, former owner and manager of Desperado’s Cabaret, while the officer was in charge...

NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that Joseph J. Mogan, III, M.D., age 48, formerly of New Orleans, and Tiffany Miller, age 43, of Metairie, were sentenced yesterday for conspiring to dispense prescription drugs illegally through “pill...

FORT SMITH, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Downing and Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that six individuals have been sentenced this week to a combined total of over 50 years in prison for drug-trafficking offenses stemming from...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Joseph W. Shepherd and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a man from Many, La was sentenced to 78 months in prison for distributing methamphetamine. Marcus Johnson, 38, of Many, La., was sentenced by U.S. District...

FORT SMITH, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Downing, and Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Octavio Torres-Rivas, aka Cesar Torres, age 46, a Mexican citizen residing in Springdale, Arkansas, was sentenced today on one count of Conspiracy...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A.D. Wright, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division; A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, and James D . Robnett‎, Special Agent in Charge, Tampa Field Office, Internal Revenue (IRS), announces the unsealing of an indictment...