MADISON, WIS. – Assistant Special Agent in Charge Paul E. Maxwell and Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western Distri ct of Wisconsin, announced that Christopher Kania, 40, Portage, Wisconsin, pled guilty on Thursday, March 12, in U.S. District Court in Madison to obtaining oxycodone by use of...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Kayla Hampton, age 28, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced in South Bend before United States District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio to 120 months in prison for Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II. According to documents in this case, a...

TAMPA, Fla. - Timothy CathCart (33, Pasco County) was sentenced yesterday to 27 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute a substance containing detectable amounts of fentanyl and norfentanyl, the use of which resulted in serious bodily injury to multiple individuals. CathCart...

CHICAGO – The Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration today announced the results of Project Python, a DEA-led multilateral interagency operation encompassing all global investigations and related disruption activities targeting the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) . This announcement marks the successful conclusion of six months of investigative...

MIAMI – The Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration today announced the results of Project Python, a DEA-led multilateral interagency operation encompassing all global investigations and related disruption activities targeting the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG). This announcement marks the successful conclusion of six months of investigative...

MIAMI –El Departamento de Justicia y la Agencia Antidrogas de los E.U. (DEA, por sus siglas en inglés), anunciaron hoy los resultados del “Proyecto Python”, una operación interagencial y liderada por la DEA que abarcó todas las investigaciones globales que tienen como meta la interrupción de las actividades criminales y...

TAMPA, Fla. - Alexander Giraldo Santa (48, Colombia) has pled guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute five or more kilograms of cocaine while aboard a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. He faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. According to...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. – A former Manito, Illinois. man, Jonathan Edward Rakestraw, 36, has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. On Feb. 28, 2020, Chief U.S. District Judge Sara Darrow sentenced Rakestraw to 15 years in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine in Schuyler County, Illinois...

TAMPA, Fla. -- Heidi Kalous, 39, of Dunedin, Florida, pleaded guilty to conspiring and distributing a substance that contained a mixture of heroin, fentanyl, and acetyl fentanyl, causing the death of an individual. She faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been...

MIAMI – Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon today announced that the DEA will direct enforcement resources to methamphetamine “transportation hubs” — areas where methamphetamine is often trafficked in bulk and then distributed across the country. While continuing to focus on stopping drugs being smuggled across the border, DEA’s...