PROVIDENCE, RI. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the New England Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and U.S. Attorney Peter F. Neronha announced a federal criminal complaint and supporting affidavit unsealed in U.S. District Court in Providence detail the alleged participation of a Central Falls...

EUGENE, ORE - .- Noel Nathaniel Yaun, 34, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced on January 26, 2011, to 37 months in prison for structuring currency transactions. Yaun pled guilty on November 10, 2010, to structuring currency transactions to avoid reporting requirements. He resided in Columbia, South Carolina, when he...

BRIDGEPORT, CT. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in Hartford has found Quenida Andeliz, 41, of Brooklyn, New York, guilty of one...

BOISE, IDAHO - Nabor Martinez-Herrera, 31, a Mexican national, is the 13th of 14 co-defendants to plead guilty to a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Idaho. Sentencing is scheduled for May 4, 2011, before Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill in Boise. The charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence...

PROVIDENCE, RI. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England, United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, Tiverton Police Chief Thomas Blakey, and Fall River Police Chief Daniel S. Racine announced today that four men were arrested Monday on federal complaints alleging that...

SEATTLE, WASH - Jacob Harley Shook, 30, of Seattle, Washington was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 15 years in prison and five years of supervised release for two counts of pharmacy robbery, one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, and one count...

BOISE - - Leonardo Villasenor-Cesar, 23, was sentenced on January 20th, 2011 to fifteen years in federal prison in connection with a marijuana grow located on U.S. Forest Service public lands. Villasenor-Cesar pled guilty last November to drug manufacturing and firearms possession charges. Villasenor-Cesar is a native of Michoacan, Mexico...

ANCHORAGE, AK. - - Acting Special Agent in Charge, Mark Thomas announced that on January 19, 2011, Naron Celestine, a.k.a. “Cole”, 40, a resident of Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced to 188 months in prison for his participation in a conspiracy to distribute five kilograms of cocaine. According to information presented...

EUGENE, ORE - . - Suzan Dione, 40, of Eugene, Oregon, was sentenced January 12, 2011, to 24 months in prison for conspiracy to manufacture and distribute marijuana, psilocybin mushrooms, and Ecstasy, and for laundering money and structuring currency transactions. She also forfeited two homes and over $30,000. This sentencing...

BOISE - - Law enforcement officials from the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), the Nampa Police Department, the District of Idaho U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Canyon County Prosecutor’s Office announced that in the early morning hours of January 14, 2011, federal agents and local authorities from 10 law enforcement agencies...