ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Nathan Jackson, 27, and his sister, Hailey Jelinek, 20, from Fairbanks, Alaska, were sentenced on November 1, 2013, in U.S. District Court. Jackson was sentenced to 123 months in prison and three years of supervised release. He had previously pleaded guilty to both counts of an indictment...

SEATTLE - A Puyallup, Washington man who shot and killed two men who had entered the garage where he was growing marijuana pleaded guilty on October 25, 2013, in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to manufacturing marijuana and possession of a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime. Jeremy...

SEATTLE - The largest volume used car dealership in Washington, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle for failure to file a monetary transaction report. Zein Automobiles, Inc., d/b/a Independence Auto Sales and Best Bet Auto Sales with locations in Lynnwood and Everett, forfeited $1.5...

OCT (INDIANAPOLIS) - Jack Riley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Division, of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and Joseph H. Hogsett, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, announced today a city-wide operation that dismantled a massive drug trafficking organization in the Indianapolis area. The...

MILWAUKEE - Jack Riley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago office of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which includes Wisconsin, and James L. Santelle, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced today that a 13-count indictment was unsealed in federal court charging six defendants with various...

CHICAGO - - In a major pre-dawn enforcement action by a combined team of Chicago Police officers, DEA agents and additional State and Federal partners 33 individuals with alleged ties to the Imperial Insane Vice Lords, a violent, drug trafficking street gang, were arrested. Ten defendants who allegedly directed or...

BOISE, Idaho - Five Mexican nationals were arrested last week by the Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service in connection with a large marijuana growing operation on public lands. According to the criminal complaints filed, Juan Pablo Villasenor-Villa, 28, Marcos Solano-Farias, 30, Carlos Cerda-Carpio, 40...

SEATTLE - Early this morning, federal agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration arrested a resident of Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood who had repeatedly sold marijuana to middle and high school students. On September 13, 2013, Alejandro Antonio Castillo, 51, was charged by a criminal complaint with conspiracy to distribute marijuana, two...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Joshua Mustovich, 31, from Fairbanks, Alaska, was sentenced on September 6, 2013, in U.S. District Court to 87 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release. Mustovich had previously pled guilty to count one of an indictment charging him with drug conspiracy. In January 2012, Mustovich...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On August 30, 2013, four Anchorage men were indicted for drug conspiracy, kidnapping, and using firearms in furtherance of these crimes. The four men indicted are as follows: Stuart T. Seugasala, a/k/a "Tone", age 38; Phosavan Khamnivong, a/k/a "P.K.", age 33, Timothy Miller, a/k/a "Lil' Tone", age...