SEATTLE - Today, a civil complaint was filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington against an Arizona physician who violated the Controlled Substances Act by prescribing narcotic painkillers in Washington state without having a DEA registration number in Washington. Barton Butterbaugh was the Chief Medical...

SEATTLE - A former hospital anesthesiologist was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to five years in prison and three years of supervised release for distribution of oxycodone. Hieu Tu Le, 40, of Snohomish, Washington, a medical doctor licensed in Washington State since 2004, operated medical clinics in...

APR 02 (NEW ORLEANS) - Twelve individuals indicted in the Eastern District of Louisiana face drug and conspiracy charges as a result of an extensive three-year investigation that targeted a heroin drug trafficking organization in New Orleans, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U. S...

SEATTLE - Gavin Dry, a plastic surgeon who practices in Kirkland, Washington has agreed to settle federal civil penalty claims brought by the U.S. Attorney's Office on behalf of the federal Drug Enforcement (DEA). Based on evidence and information obtained through DEA's investigation, from 2007 through 2011, Gavin Dry forged...

BOISE, Idaho - Austin Serb, 20, Christopher Snyder, 24, and Andrew Colwell, 23, of Boise, Idaho, appeared in federal court on March 11, 2014, on a nine-count federal indictment charging them and eight others with conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and heroin; distributing oxycodone, and distributing heroin. “Opiate addiction is a...

GULFPORT, Miss. - Four individuals indicted in the Southern District of Mississippi face various drug charges as the result of an extensive three-year drug investigation that targeted an illegal prescription drug ring, announced Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown with the Drug Enforcement Administration - New Orleans Field Division and...

SEATTLE - Thirteen people were arrested and law enforcement seized 50 pounds of crystal meth, $160,000 in cash and seven guns in the culmination of a lengthy investigation of a Pierce County based drug trafficking ring. The Drug Enforcement Administration led the wire-tap investigation which identified the members of a...

FEB 21 - (ANCHORAGE, Alaska) - - Donnel Johnson, a/k/a, "Creep," age 31, from Fairbanks, Alaska, was sentenced on Friday, February 21, 2014, to 216 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release on charges related to a drug conspiracy. Johnson was also ordered to forfeit vehicles and jewelry...

Portland, Ore. - Salvador Martinez-Perez, 53, East Wenatchee, Washington, appeared today before U.S. Magistrate Dennis J. Hubel and plead not guilty to a federal indictment charging him with four counts of conspiracy and possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin. On January 17, 2014, Sherman County Sheriff's...

BOISE, Idaho - Ausencio Gonzalez Tovar, 48, a Mexican national living in Star, Idaho, was sentenced on February 10, 2014, to 188 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. Tovar was also ordered to forfeit...