NOGALES, AZ. - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Phoenix Field Division, Acting Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman and U.S. Attorney, District of Arizona, Dennis Burke today announced that authorities have broken up a marijuana smuggling operation along the United States-Mexico border allegedly responsible for trafficking tons of illegal drugs into...

- PHOENIX, AZ. - The Honorable David G. Campbell on Monday sentenced Rosie Cruz Leivas, 33, of Parker to 57 months in federal prison after she pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Leivas, a member of the Colorado River Indian Tribes, was the third defendant sentenced as...

MADISON, WI. - - Jack Riley, Special Agent in Charge for the Chicago Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin announced that three men were recently sentenced for conspiring to possess marijuana with intent to distribute. U.S...

WAUKEGAN, IL. - The Drug Enforcement Administration and the Lake County Sheriff’s Office have arrested and charged five individuals in a drug distribution operation. The investigation began in December of 2010 with information received by the DEA that a ranch, located at 40058 Route 45 in unincorporated Lake Villa, was...

- TUCSON, AZ. - Jose Paul Gastellum-Chavez, aka Juan Chavez Rodriguez, 57, of Mexico, was sentenced to 13 years in prison by U. S. District Court Judge Frank R. Zapata. The defendant was convicted of two counts of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute marijuana and one count...

CHICAGO, IL. - The Chicago Police (CPD) and Drug Enforcement (DEA) collaborated to seize a total of 38 pounds of methamphetamine this past weekend. The CPD estimates the street value of the drug seizure at $5.6 million. As a result of the joint mission, three offenders were charged with state...

PHOENIX, AZ - . - Grand juries have returned multi-count indictments in five cases against 34 defendants accused of assisting Mexican drug trafficking organizations with illegally trafficking firearms from the United States to Mexico. Beginning earlier this morning, a multi-agency law enforcement task force rounded up and arrested 20 defendants...