FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Acting Special Agent in Charge Joseph W. Shepherd announced that Kyle Alexander, age 24 of Bethel Heights, Christopher Randolph, age 19 of Bethel Heights, and Noe Tovias, age 29 of San Benito, Texas, were sentenced today for offenses involving the possession of methamphetamine with the intent to...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Jonathan Hoang, of San Jose, California, pleaded guilty in Federal court on September 16, 2013, to charges of impersonating a U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) special agent and Securities Fraud, announced Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Melinda Haag. Hoang, 48...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Lida Amin, 39, of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Dublin, Calif., was arrested Wednesday in Prague, Czech Republic, by Czech authorities pursuant to a U.S. request for her provisional arrest with a view toward extradition, Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney...

RICHMOND, Calif. - The Drug Enforcement Administration Oakland Resident Office in cooperation with the Richmond Police Department and the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office arrested twenty-three members of a violent street gang based in Richmond, California. As a result of this four month long investigation, murders and violence in...

SHREVEPORT - , La. - Acting Special Agent in Charge Joseph W. Shepherd announced on August 26, 2013 that William Paul Boyter, 76, Michael Paul Boyter, 51, and Antony Reuben Riley, 49, all of Shreveport, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote to charges of conspiracy, money laundering...

FRESNO, Calif. - Damone Kelley, 45, of Fresno, is the last of seven defendants to plead guilty today for his involvement in a drug and money laundering ring that extended from Fresno to Alabama and Georgia, Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B...

FRESNO, Calif. - Gerardo Morales, 23, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to cultivate, distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana grown on a 20-acre agricultural parcel in Alpaugh, Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. According to court documents, on May...

FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a single count indictment today, charging Phouvanh Vongsenekeo, 25, of Phoenix, with manufacturing and possessing with the intent to distribute one hundred or more marijuana plants and one hundred or more kilograms of marijuana, between July 9, 2013, and August 9, 2013...

FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today charging Victor Torres-Romero, 24, of Ceres, and Luis Bartolo Madriz-Sandoval, 32, of Everett, Wash., with conspiring to possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today, charging Andres Guzman, 27, of Southern California, with possessing cocaine with intent to distribute, Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. According to court documents, on August 1, 2013...