MIAMI - The Drug Enforcement Administration continues to warn the public about criminals posing as DEA special agents or other law enforcement personnel. This criminal activity continues to occur, despite significant public attention to the illicit scheme. DEA offices nationwide regularly receive telephone calls from concerned citizens who are the...

MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge of the Miami Field Division, Drug Enforcement (DEA), announced today the issuance of Orders to Show (OSC) to three Walgreen’s pharmacies located at Walgreens #04727, 4950 S. US Hwy 1, Fort Piece, FL; Walgreens #03629, 12028 Majestic Blvd., Hudson, FL; and...

ORLANDO, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O’Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced that yesterday U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell sentenced Terrie (43, Apopka) to six years in federal prison for knowingly...

MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announce the sentencing of Ramon Quintero Sanclemente. On November 19, 2012, U.S. District Judge William P. Dimitrouleas sentenced Quintero Sanclemente to 210...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton Jr. sentenced William Arthur (36, Jacksonville) today to life in federal prison for aiding and abetting the possession with intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine. Vanholten was found guilty by a federal jury on August 2, 2012. According...

PENSACOLA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced that a federal jury in Fort Lauderdale returned guilty verdicts against five members of a multi-state cocaine and oxycodone distribution...

TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O’Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced yesterday that U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew sentenced William (43, Odessa) to 70 months in federal prison for participating...

TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O'Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces a federal indictment charging Jose Luis Panameno-(49, a citizen of Honduras) with conspiracy to possess with intent to manufacture and...

ORLANDO, Fla. - United States Chief District Judge Anne C. Conway sentenced Willie (35, Apopka) last week to three years in federal prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute BZP (a drug that mimics the effects of “Ecstasy”). In March 2010, agents with...

NOV 07 - (TAMPA, FL) Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Robert E. O’Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, and David Gee, Sheriff, Hillsborough County Sheriff's (HCSO), announced today that U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew sentenced George Arthur...