INDIANAPOLIS - - Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry announced today that Indianapolis physician Dr. Segun Rasaki has been charged with 24 felonies for allegedly writing prescriptions for painkiller medications without a legitimate purpose, outside the usual course of professional practice or without a license. He also faces a charge of...

WASHINGTON - The United States has filed suit against PharMerica Corp. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, the Justice Department announced today. The lawsuit alleges that PharMerica violated the False Claims Act and the Controlled Substances Act by dispensing controlled drugs without valid prescriptions and...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Robin Gattis, the leader of a drug conspiracy involving seven South-central Alaska residents pled guilty today in federal court to drug conspiracy involving Methylone. The six other co-conspirators have previously pled guilty to federal drug charges stemming from a conspiracy to possess and distribute Methylone. Methylone, is...

EUGENE, Ore. - Juan Jesus Chavez-Salazar, 26, of Lane County, Oregon, was sentenced on July 23, 2013, to 168 months in prison for conspiracy to possess and distribute methamphetamine. Upon his release from prison, he will be placed on supervised release for five years. Chavez-Salazar and his associates were the...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On July 25, 2013, a grand jury returned two additional drug conspiracy indictments stemming from the same investigation that resulted in charges against numerous members of an Anchorage based rap group back in August of 2012. That indictment alleged a conspiracy to distribute over 50 kilograms of...

JULY 09 - ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On July 1, 2013, after deliberating for four hours, a jury of four men and eight women found California gang member Richard Melvin Corum, 30, guilty of drug conspiracy and witness tampering. According the evidence presented at trial, from April 2010 through January 2011...

SEATTLE - Today,a Whatcom County man who ran a drug distribution network was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. Todd Hamilton, 36, of Bellingham ran the area’s most widespread and prolific drug trafficking organization using violence and threats of violence to impose his will. At sentencing U.S. District Judge...

JUNE 28 - ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Jennifer McGrath, 26, of Sacramento, California, was sentenced June 26, 2013, in U.S District Court 38 months in prison for her role in a drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy. Between January 2009, and continuing through July 2010, McGrath was involved in a large...

BOISE, Idaho - The final member of a ten-defendant southwest Idaho methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy was sentenced today in federal court in Boise. Samuel Chavez, 33, was sentenced to 66 months in federal prison for the crime of possession with intent to distribute in excess of 50 grams of methamphetamine. The...

CHICAGO - Twenty-three defendants are facing federal narcotics charges for their alleged roles in supplying and distributing wholesale quantities of heroin and cocaine in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, local and federal law enforcement officials announced today. An investigation led by the Chicago Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration resulted...