EVANSVILLE, IN. - - Joseph H. Hogsett, United States Attorney, announced today the culmination of a coordinated investigation into a large scale marijuana trafficking organization headed by lead defendant Freddie Joe Taylor of Vallonia, responsible for obtaining large quantities of the drug from sources in Texas, Arizona and Mexico, for...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, Donald A. Davis, announced today that Asante Parker, 32, of Lansing, Michigan, was sentenced to serve 262 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute 1,000 kilograms...

OWENSBORO, KY - David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky announced today that the last two defendants in a Henderson County drug conspiracy have been sentenced in United States District Court. The sentencing of Lewis Smithhart and William Coomes, both of Henderson, Kentucky, brings to...

PADUCAH, KY - David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky, announced today that Dwayne Michael Joseph was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. The sentencing of Joseph by U.S. District Chief Judge Thomas B. Russell, brings to conclusion...

BISMARCK, ND. - United States Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced today that, Bert M. Johnson, 50, of Williston, North Dakota, was found guilty by a federal jury in United States District Court of the following two charges: Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance Distribution of a Controlled Substance...

MADISON, WI. - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Duane Thomas, 32, of Madison, Wis., was sentenced Friday, May 13, by U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb to 10 years in prison without parole for possessing crack cocaine with the intent to distribute...

CINCINNATI, OH - The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Robert L. Corso announced today the immediate suspensions of the DEA Certificate of Registration for four physicians and a pharmacy operating in Scioto County, Ohio. The DEA served Immediate Suspension (ISO) on physicians Margy Temponeras, John Temponeras, Mark...

MADISON, WI. - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Roman Hernandez-Ortega, 37, Madison, Wis., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 14 months in federal prison for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. Hernandez-Ortega pleaded guilty to...

CINCINNATI, OH - A United States District Court jury convicted Dr. Paul H. Volkman of illegally prescribing and dispensing millions of pain pills outside the scope of a legitimate medical practice which resulted in the deaths of four people between 2003 and 2005. He faces at least 20 years in...

BEAUMONT, TX - A 51-year-old Spring Hill, Florida man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas Hinojosa and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. Tony Darrell Fuzz pleaded guilty to possession with intent to...