MIAMI - , FL. - Ocean Bank, the largest privately-owned state-chartered commercial bank headquartered in Florida, has entered into a deferred prosecution (“the Agreement”) with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida to resolve charges that it willfully failed to establish an anti-money laundering program. Today’s Agreement...

MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, Miami Field Divisionand Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announced the sentencing of defendant Arthur Carl Haspel, 66, of Boca Raton, FL. U.S. District Court Judge Jose E. Martinez sentenced Haspel...

SACRAMENTO, CA-- - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today that Son Nguyen, 41, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to distributing both methamphetamine and MDMA or (a popular club drug). Nguyen was one of 51 defendants charged in...

TAMPA, FL. -- - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division and United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announce the unsealing of an indictment charging Aimee Joy Martin, 35, a physician currently practicing in Bradenton, Florida, with seven counts of illegally distributing or causing...

FRESNO, CA - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Carlos Martinez, 23, of Oaxaca, Mexico, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to cultivate, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana. According to his guilty plea, Martinez admitted...

FRESNO, CA - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced the entry of guilty pleas and one sentencing in three separate marijuana-cultivation cases stemming from Operation Trident, a multi-agency marijuana enforcement effort in Madera, Fresno, and Tulare Counties in...

SACRAMENTO, CA - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that yesterday a federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment charging Kenneth George Eaton, age 55; William Joseph Bohac, age 62; Thomas Eugene Ganey, age 51; and Jonathan Dale...

WEST PALM BEACH, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael McAuliffe, Palm Beach County State Attorney, Hugo J. Barrera, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and (ATF)...

TAMPA,FL. - - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division and U.S. Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announced the indictment charging: Daniel Fajardo, age 27, of Sumter County, Fla.; Orlando Ramirez-Arrellano, age 27, of Sumter County, Fla.; Jose Zoto-Perez, age 26, of Atlanta, Ga.; Juan...

ORLANDO, FL. -- - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division and United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces that Agapito Gonzalez-Ramirez, age 43, of San Benito, Texas, pled guilty today to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and distribute marijuana. Gonzalez-Ramirez...