CHICAGO — As communities throughout Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin attend outdoor concerts, festivals, fairs and other large gatherings this summer, the Drug Enforcement Administration Chicago Field Division is warning the public about the growing threat posed by illicit methamphetamine and counterfeit pills. The warning comes as DEA investigations continue to...

Greenville, MS – U.S. Attorney Scott Leary announced that a Homeland Security Task Force Operation led to the sentence of Christopher Caffey, a/k/a “Snow”, 49, of Grenada, Mississippi, for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl. Caffey was sentenced today before the Honorable Deborah M. Brown, Chief United States District Court...

Greenville, MS – U.S. Attorney Scott Leary announced that a Homeland Security Task Force Operation led to the sentence of Dannie Thomas, of Dacula, Georgia. Thomas was sentenced today before the Honorable Deborah M. Brown, Chief United States District Court Judge, to 120 months in federal prison for possession with...

COVINGTON, La. - District Attorney J. Collin Sims announces that the 22nd Judicial District Attorney’s Office Opioid Initiative, in close partnership with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Fentanyl Overdose Response Team (DEA FORT), has arrested a suspected narcotics distributor following a recent investigation in eastern St. Tammany Parish. The multi-agency operation...

LITTLE ROCK—Kevin Langel, who trafficked dozens of kilograms of cocaine from Texas to Arkansas, will spend the next 14 years in federal prison. Bruce Smith, who trafficked multiple pounds of methamphetamine from California to Arkansas, will be in federal prison for the next 10 years. And Larry Rogers, who brokered...

AMITE, La. — A Ponchatoula man has been sentenced to serve 30 years in prison for the fentanyl overdose death of a 27-year-old Hammond man. 21st Judicial District Attorney Scott Perrilloux and Special Agent in Charge John P. Scott of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) New Orleans Field Division jointly...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. - Two Evansville men have been sentenced to federal prison for operating a methamphetamine trafficking ring in Vanderburgh County. The Crossroads Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF), including the Drug Enforcement Administration Indianapolis District Office, led the investigation. Isaac J. Horne, 47, was sentenced to 15 years in federal...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – An indictment charging four men in a drug-trafficking conspiracy based in Calhoun County has been unsealed, announced U.S. Attorney Phillip W. Williams Jr. A 12-count indictment charges Theron Samuel Johnson, 43, Jeffrey Leon Battle, 56, and Toney Courtez Jenkins, 42—all three of Anniston, Alabama—and Samuel Lane, Jr...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Following a lengthy investigation by the Louisville Homeland Security Task Force, a federal grand jury in Bowling Green, Kentucky, returned an indictment on July 15, 2026, charging 13 Owensboro based men and women as part of a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy. All 13 individuals were arrested this week...

NEW ORLEANS – DESHAWN JONES (“JONES”), age 44, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced on July 21, 2026, after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute, and possess with the intent to distribute, controlled substances, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1), 841(b)(1)(B), 841(b)(1)(C), and 846...