CHICAGO - ― Dennis Wichern, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration, which includes Wisconsin, and United States Attorney James L. Santelle of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that a federal grand jury recently returned an 11count indictment charging eight defendants with...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. - ―Nine individuals from the Chicago and Michigan City areas have been indicted for their alleged roles in a heroin distribution conspiracy that operated from approximately 2009 through the present. A principal object of the conspiracy was to procure quantities of heroin for ultimate distribution in northwest...

MILWAUKEE - ―The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced today the arrest of 26 individuals on both state and federal charges related to the illegal distribution of pharmaceutical controlled substances in the Milwaukee metropolitan area. The following 47 individuals were charged by the Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, or Washington County District Attorneys’...

TIOGA, Pa. - The United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a criminal Information was filed yesterday charging Orin Moore, age 41, of Lawrenceville with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. According to U.S. Attorney Peter Smith, on January 6, 2012, the Pennsylvania State Police went...

CHICAGO - ―Twenty-two defendants are facing federal narcotics charges here for their alleged roles in importing, supplying, and distributing kilogram quantities of heroin and cocaine through interconnected drug trafficking organizations that operated in the Chicago area, as well as in Mexico, California, Oregon, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The investigation resulted...

(WASHINGTON)-A Colombian man extradited to the Eastern District of Virginia pleaded guilty today for his involvement in the kidnapping and murder of Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent James Terry Watson in Bogotà, Colombia, on June 20, 2013. “Today’s guilty plea is an important step forward in holding those responsible for...

CHICAGO - ― A former physician who was affiliated with three Chicago hospitals was sentenced today to nearly six years in federal prison for illegally distributing prescription drugs in exchange for sex and cash. The defendant, Joshua D. Baron, a pediatric neurologist, pleaded guilty in March, admitting that he provided...

WHEATON, Ill. - DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration Jack Riley, and Naperville Police Chief Robert Marshall announced today that felony drug conspiracy and sales charges have been filed against seven individuals as the result of...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Wilkes-Barre man was sentenced today, in federal court in Wilkes-Barre, by United States District Judge A. Richard Caputo, to serve 18 months in prison on a charge of using a communication device to...

PITTSBURGH - After a trial that began on June 9, 2014, a federal jury deliberated for just the afternoon on June 26, 2014 before finding Robert Russell Spence, a previous resident of Duquesne, Pennsylvania who is also known as “Slick” or “Little Russ”, guilty of taking part in both a...