ANCHORAGE, AK. - - On February 10, 2011, Ricky Alan Reese, 52, of Anchorage, Alaska, was tried before United States District Judge H. Russel Holland. After deliberating two hours, a federal jury in Anchorage found Reese guilty of one count of drug trafficking conspiracy and one count of attempting to...

MADISON, WI. - - Jack Riley, Special Agent in Charge for the Chicago Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin announced that three men were recently sentenced for conspiring to possess marijuana with intent to distribute. U.S...

WAUKEGAN, IL. - The Drug Enforcement Administration and the Lake County Sheriff’s Office have arrested and charged five individuals in a drug distribution operation. The investigation began in December of 2010 with information received by the DEA that a ranch, located at 40058 Route 45 in unincorporated Lake Villa, was...

BOISE, IDAHO - Mark Thomas, Acting Special Agent in Charge announced that James Toliver Latham, 23, and Ryan J. Simmons, 22, both of Twin Falls, Idaho, were sentenced this week for conspiracy to traffic oxycodone. Latham was sentenced to 48 months and Simmons to 30 months in federal prison. Both...

SEATTLE - - Marisol Perez-Almonte, 28, of Renton, Washington, and Joan Luis Azamar-Sanchez , 31, of Seattle, Washington, were each sentenced to 10 year prison terms today in U.S. District Court in Seattle for conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Perez-Almonte was convicted by a jury in November 2010, following the five...

ANCHORAGE, AK - Acting Special Agent in Charge, Mark Thomas announced that six residents of Sacramento, California, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage on charges of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute oxycodone in Alaska. The individuals were indicted in four separate...

CHICAGO, IL. - The Chicago Police (CPD) and Drug Enforcement (DEA) collaborated to seize a total of 38 pounds of methamphetamine this past weekend. The CPD estimates the street value of the drug seizure at $5.6 million. As a result of the joint mission, three offenders were charged with state...

EUGENE, ORE - .- Noel Nathaniel Yaun, 34, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced on January 26, 2011, to 37 months in prison for structuring currency transactions. Yaun pled guilty on November 10, 2010, to structuring currency transactions to avoid reporting requirements. He resided in Columbia, South Carolina, when he...

BOISE, IDAHO - Nabor Martinez-Herrera, 31, a Mexican national, is the 13th of 14 co-defendants to plead guilty to a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Idaho. Sentencing is scheduled for May 4, 2011, before Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill in Boise. The charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence...

SEATTLE, WASH - Jacob Harley Shook, 30, of Seattle, Washington was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 15 years in prison and five years of supervised release for two counts of pharmacy robbery, one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, and one count...