JAN 21 (MONTGOMERY, Ala.) - The Drug Enforcement Administration awarded Assistant U. S. Attorneys Verne Speirs and Gray Borden the Spartan Award, announced George L. Beck, Jr., United States Attorney Middle District of Alabama. The Spartan award recognizes prosecutors for their dedication and extraordinary effort to investigate and prosecute large-scale...

FRESNO, Calif. - Victor Torres, 28, of Selma, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill to five years and 10 months in prison for methamphetamine trafficking, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. According to court...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - William J. Bryant, Assistant Special Agent in (ASAC) of the Little Rock District Office of the Drug Enforcement (DEA); Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas; and Scott Ellington, District Prosecuting Attorney for the Second Judicial District of Arkansas; announced the...

NEW ORLEANS - Quenshey Mitchell, a/k/a "Ripper" "Baby Ripper", and "Q", age 36, from Los Angeles, California, was convicted on January 10, 2014 of all six counts of a superseding indictment which included charges of conspiracy to distribute in excess of a kilogram of heroin, multiple conspiracies to obstruct justice...

FRESNO, Calif.) - Today, one marijuana cultivator entered a guilty plea and one was sentenced for their involvement in separate cases resulting from Operation Mercury, a six-county eradication and enforcement effort that focused on large-scale marijuana cultivation operations on agricultural land in the Central Valley, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Lynn Farrell Smith, 63, of Stockton was sentenced to 42 months in prison today by United States District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. for offenses involving the cultivation and sale of marijuana via storefronts in Sacramento and Stockton, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Mikhael Issa Kamar, aka Michael Kamar, 51, of Bakersfield, appeared today in federal court for arraignment on a three-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Fresno on December 12, 2013, charging him with conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute, distributing, and possessing...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Matthew Davies, 35, of Stockton, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to five years in prison and a $100,000 fine for offenses involving the cultivation and sale of marijuana via dispensaries in Sacramento and Stockton, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner...

SAN FRANCISCO - - Ten individuals have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of drug trafficking within 1,000 feet of schools in San Francisco's Tenderloin District, United States Attorney Melinda Haag, DEA Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick, and San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr announced. The...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Two marijuana growers were sentenced today for their involvement in separate indoor marijuana cultivation operations in Elk Grove, Sacramento, San Jose, and Milpitas, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce Balzano announced. Chief United States District Judge Morrison C. England...