PHILADELPHIA - A superseding indictment filed August 21, 2013, was unsealed today charging Joseph Torres, 31, Bertin Sanchez, 29, Euddy Izquierdo, 31, and Frank Felix-Herrera, 49, all of Philadelphia, with membership in a conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. All...

INDIANAPOLIS - - Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry announced today that Indianapolis physician Dr. Segun Rasaki has been charged with 24 felonies for allegedly writing prescriptions for painkiller medications without a legitimate purpose, outside the usual course of professional practice or without a license. He also faces a charge of...

WASHINGTON - The United States has filed suit against PharMerica Corp. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, the Justice Department announced today. The lawsuit alleges that PharMerica violated the False Claims Act and the Controlled Substances Act by dispensing controlled drugs without valid prescriptions and...

JULY 23 - ( - PITTSBURGH) - Twelve western Pennsylvania residents have been indicted by a federal grand juryalleging their participation in a prescription drug ring operating in Allegheny and Beaver Counties, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. The indictments were returned on July16, 2013, and unsealed this...

PHILADELPHIA - Chester (PA) District Attorney Tom Hogan announced arrests in Operation Tubería (translation, Operation Broken Pipeline). The joint federal and local operation was designed to attack the drug pipeline from Mexico that runs through Southern Chester County, resulting in multiple arrests for dealing cocaine. The final defendant was arrested...

PHILADELPHIA - Kermit Gosnell, 72, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty today to 12 counts in connection with running a pill mill out of his clinic located at 3801-3805 Lancaster Avenue in Philadelphia. Gosnell pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, including oxycodone, alprazolam, and codeine; distribution and aiding and abetting...

CHICAGO - Twenty-three defendants are facing federal narcotics charges for their alleged roles in supplying and distributing wholesale quantities of heroin and cocaine in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, local and federal law enforcement officials announced today. An investigation led by the Chicago Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration resulted...

MADISON, Wis. - Jack Riley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration and John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Pedro Flores Cruz, 53, Huntington Park, Calif., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley...

PHILADELPHIA - A federal jury, today, found Dr. Norman Werther, 74, of Ft. Washington, PA, guilty of more than 300 counts, including distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death. In addition to the charge of distribution resulting in death, the jury found Werther guilty of 184 counts of illegally...

WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today the sentencing of one man on narcotics trafficking and attempted murder convictions, and the separate conviction of that man’s brother for using Facebook to threaten to kill a government witness during the narcotics...