FORT SMITH, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Downing, and Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Octavio Torres-Rivas, aka Cesar Torres, age 46, a Mexican citizen residing in Springdale, Arkansas, was sentenced today on one count of Conspiracy...

LAKE CHARLES, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Joseph W. Shepherd and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that, after a two-day trial, a federal jury found a Guatemalan guilty of conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute more than $1.5 million worth of cocaine...

LAFAYETTE, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Joseph W. Shepherd and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Moss Bluff man pleaded guilty Wednesday to operating a marijuana sales and transport conspiracy that stretched from Texas to Louisiana. Daniel Cantu-Lopez, 42, of Moss Bluff...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Joseph W. Shepherd and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a federal grand jury indicted two Texas men for conspiring to sell approximately 28 kilograms of powder cocaine. Ricardo Garcia, 37, and Jesus Christian Martinez, 33...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Downing and Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas announced the unsealing of a 77-count superseding indictment charging multiple defendants in central Arkansas with numerous drug and weapon charges. Today, 26 defendants...

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement’s Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced eight people were charged today in connection with their roles in a drug trafficking organization that obtained heroin from...

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a former officer with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration (USCIS) today admitted coordinating shipments of crystal methamphetamine from interstate...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Joseph W. Shepherd and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Many, La resident was sentenced to 188 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine in Sabine Parish. Cassius L. Medlock, 32...

CAMDEN, N.J. - Two Camden men today admitted their roles in a conspiracy to sell 22 guns without a license, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Marcus Rutling, a/k/a “Fresh,” 33, of Camden, and Saluda, South Carolina, and his brother, Joseph Rutling, 24, of Camden, both pleaded guilty before U.S...

CAMDEN, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Paul J. Fishman, U. S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a Cumberland County, New Jersey, man was convicted today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine...