KANSAS CITY, MO. - Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri announced that on February 16, 2011, an Independence, Mo., physician has pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a conspiracy to illegally distribute more than $1 million worth of OxyContin and oxycodone. Bruce...

BENTON, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on February 11, 2011, Eric Shafer, 36, of Lynchburg Road, Mt. Vernon, IL, plead guilty in United States District Court at Benton, Ill.-, to a one count indictment charging him with possession...

BENTON, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that LaToya M. McDaniel, 24, of Murphysboro, IL, was sentenced on February 10, 2010 in United States District Court in Benton, Illinois, to 120 months’ imprisonment, 5 years’ supervised release, and fined $150...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois announced that Cristy Davis, 28, formerly of Greenville, Ill., was sentenced on February 8, 2011, in United States District Court, East St. Louis. Davis had entered a guilty plea to a superseding...

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...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL - . - Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on February 7, 2011, Clifford David Liddell, Jr., aka “Woop,” 25, of Carbondale, Ill., was sentenced in United States District Court in East St. Louis, Ill., to 240 months...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on February 4, 2011, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, East St. Louis, Ill., Joshua McMurray , 32, of Lufkin, Texas, plead guilty to an...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL. - Ezell A. Curry , 38, of Centralia, Ill., was sentenced today in United States District Court in East St, Louis, Ill., to 188 months imprisonment, six years of supervised release, and was fined $400, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen...

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...

LEAVENWORTH, KS. - A Kansas City, KS, man has been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison for his role in a heroin trafficking ring that caused the deaths of users in Wyandotte, Leavenworth and Johnson counties, according to a news release from the office of United States...