SAN DIEGO - Fourteen alleged members of a cross-country drug trafficking organization are charged in a federal grand jury indictments with conspiring to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and ultra-dangerous fentanyl to locations throughout the United States. Early yesterday morning, a contingent of federal, state, and local law...

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’...

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...

SAN DIEGO - Nine people are in custody following DEA’s takedown of Operation Shattered Dreams . Warrants served in San Diego, Spring Valley, Chula Vista, and El Cajon are the conclusion of a year-long undercover drug operation. The Drug Enforcement (DEA) served numerous search warrants from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00...

(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...

SAN DIEGO - Jose Rodrigo Arechiga-Gamboa, also known as “Chino Antrax,” was formally extradited to the United States by the Netherlands today. Arechiga-Gamboa arrived at San Diego International airport about 2 p.m. under heavy security. He was flown in by the United States Marshals Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration...