NEW ORLEANS - Americans nationwide did their part to reduce the opioid crisis by bringing the DEA and its more than 4,200 local and tribal law enforcement partners a record-setting 912,305 pounds-456 tons-of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs for disposal at more than 5,300 collection sites. That...

SHREVEPORT, La. - The last defendant remaining in a Shreveport/Bossier City area methamphetamine distribution case was sentenced Monday to more than 15 (188 months) in prison, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley and Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook. Jose Mejia Jr., 33...

NEW ORLEANS - Luis J. Cotto, a/k/a “Luis Pereira,” age 31, of New York, was arrested, following the unsealing of a Second Superseding Indictment charging an array of federal narcotics and firearm violations by members of a drug trafficking organization operating in south Louisiana, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent...

FRESNO, Calif. - Carlos Gerrardo Blanco, 27, of Bakersfield, was sentenced yesterday by United States Chief District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill to 10 years in prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. According to court documents, between November 2014 and December 2015 Blanco distributed and conspired with others to distribute methamphetamine...

FRESNO, Calif. - Mario Alvarez-Muniz, 49, a citizen of Mexico and former resident of Taft, entered a guilty plea today to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, in December 2016, Alvarez-Muniz delivered...

SAN FRANCISCO - Mariano Ramos-Lopez was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for possessing with the intent to distribute nearly a kilogram of heroin, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin. The sentence was handed down by the...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Jeremy Luckett was sentenced today to 235 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute, and to possess with the intent to distribute, methamphetamine. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr., U.S. District Judge, following a guilty plea in...

SHREVEPORT, La. - A Texas man was sentenced last week to 120 months in prison for distributing methamphetamine in the Shreveport area and possessing a firearm, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley and Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook. Daniel D. Garza, 26...

SAN FRANCISCO - This Saturday, October 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time the DEA and its local law enforcement, community and tribal partners will give the public its 14th opportunity in seven years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Nathan Hoffman, 57, of Los Angeles, was sentenced today by United States District Judge John A. Mendez to four years in prison for conspiring to manufacture and distribute marijuana, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent-in-Charge John Martin announced. As part of...