BATON ROUGE, La. - Four defendants - two from Baton Rouge and two from California - were sentenced to federal prison terms for their roles in a drug-trafficking conspiracy involving shipments of heroin from California to Baton Rouge, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A Birmingham man pled guilty today in federal court to selling heroin last year that caused the death of one person and seriously injured another, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Bret Hamilton and U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town. Michael Dewayne “Big Boi”...

NEW ORLEANS - On August 17 a federal jury convicted Dan Pizzaro, 48 and a resident of California, for his role in conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and heroin in the New Orleans area, announced DEA Special Agent-in-Charge Stephen G. Azzam, and Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans. Following a four...

PHOENIX - On August 13, 2017, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Phoenix Field Division agents and Tempe Police Department detectives seized 30,000 fentanyl pills, during an enforcement operation against a Sinaloa Cartel-related drug trafficking organization. This is the largest seizure of fentanyl tablets in Arizona’s history. The pills were discovered after a...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Today, a federal jury found a Texas man guilty of conspiring to transport methamphetamine and cocaine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Brad L. Byerley and Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook. Erasmo Aviles Jr., 35, of Spring, Texas, was found guilty of one count...

TUCSON, Ariz. - The DEA announced today the sentencing of Gustavo Nunez to 38.25 years in prison for performing illegal cosmetic surgeries on seven victims, three of whom were hospitalized, one with life-threatening injuries. In April 2017, Nunez pleaded guilty to 28 felony charges after performing illegal liposuction procedures. “Gustavo...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Twenty-six suspected drug traffickers with ties to East Alabama were arrested in a joint federal, state, and local narcotics investigation, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and A. Clark Morris, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. Thirteen suspects were...

WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. - Today, the simultaneous unsealing of 25 federal indictments charging 43 defendants in a major operation aimed at curbing drug trafficking and gun violence in West Memphis and Crittenden County. The indictments were returned by a federal grand jury on July 6, 2017 and July 11, 2017...

MOBILE, Ala. - Karen Hill - the former Insys Therapeutics Regional Manager for the southeastern United States - has pled guilty to conspiring to pay illegal kickbacks to doctors in exchange for their prescribing the instant-release fentanyl drug Subsys, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent-in-(ASAC) Bret Hamilton and Acting...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Today three indictments charging 24 defendants in schemes intended to divert pharmaceutical pills to the streets were unsealed, announced Stephen G. Azzam, Special Agent-in-Charge of DEA’s New Orleans Field Division which oversees DEA’s Little Rock District Office, and Patrick C. Harris, Acting United States Attorney for...