SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Alfred A. Cooke, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Chicago Division, and U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson of the Northern District of Indiana announced that Lamonte Powell, 52, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty on...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. – Todd C. Smith, Assistant Special Agent in Charge at U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Chicago Division, and U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Harris of the Central District of Illinois announced that a federal jury returned a guilty verdict on June 16, 2022, against Monica Renee Wright, 38, of Colorado...

INDIANAPOLIS – Michael J. Gannon, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Indianapolis, and U.S. Attorney Zachary A. Myers for the Southern District of Indiana announced that Demario Barker, 33, of Kokomo, Indiana, was sentenced last week to 25 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to two...

SEATTLE – The Arlington, Washington based leader of a prolific and violent drug trafficking ring pleaded guilty this week to federal drug, gun, and money laundering crimes, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Cesar Valdez-Sanudo, 36, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and carrying...

MADISON, Wis. – John G. McGarry, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Wisconsin, and U.S. Attorney Timothy M. O’Shea for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Tonia Greenwood, 45, North Freedom, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to...

CHICAGO – Todd C. Smith, Assistant Special Agent in Charge at U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration – Chicago Division, and Kewanee Police Department Chief Nick Welgat announced that on June 15, 2022, Juan Montemayor, 30, of Kewanee, Illinois, was charged with delivery of over 900 grams of fentanyl, possession of a...

CHICAGO — Robert Bell, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Chicago Division, and U.S. Attorney John R. Lausch, Jr., for the Northern District of Illinois, announced that a man who illegally possessed a semi-automatic handgun in Evanston, Ill., and tried to flee from police has been sentenced to...

TACOMA, Wash. – Multiple members of a methamphetamine trafficking ring were indicted last week in U.S. District Court for seven federal felonies related to their drug trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Some of the conspirators, have been charged in state court over the last ten years, but fled the...

POCATELLO, Idaho – After a four-day trial, a federal jury sitting in Pocatello found Adam Lee Vallely 46, of Pocatello, Idaho, guilty of one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, one count of possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, and one count of possession with the intent to...

SPOKANE, Wash. – On June 3, 2022, United States District Judge Salvador Mendoza, Jr., sentenced Lorenzo Jimenez Alanis, 47, of Mabton, Washington, to 15 years in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine, along with downloading and possessing a large collection of child pornography. Judge Mendoza also ordered Alanis to serve five...