FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Downing and Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Juan Valenzuela, age 40, of Rogers, was found guilty on two counts of Conspiracy to Distribute/Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and two...

NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown announced that the 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time. As with the previous nine Take-Back events, sites will be set up throughout communities nationwide so local residents can...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Drug Enforcement Administration announced that the 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time. As with the previous nine Take-Back events, sites will be set up throughout communities nationwide so local residents can return their unwanted, unneeded, or...

FRESNO, Calif. - Jimmy Gil, aka Joselin Jimelet Gil Sanchez, aka Joselin Gil, aka Gilberto Sanchez, 35, of Shafter, was sentenced today to five years in prison for conspiring with Jose Luis Montoya-Salazar, (Montoya), 42, of Mexico City, and Luis Ricardo Eslava-(Eslava), 42, of Sinaloa, Mexico, to import, distribute, and...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Joseph Shepherd and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Mexican national was sentenced to 64 months in prison for possessing heroin with intent to distribute. Uriel Coria-Coria, 22, of Mexico, was sentenced on one count...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Patricia Jane Albright, 64, of Nevada City, pleaded guilty on Monday to conspiring to manufacture marijuana, manufacturing marijuana, and structuring currency transactions to evade federal reporting requirements. On September 18, 2014, Albright’s son and co-conspirator, Jordan Wirtz, pleaded guilty to federal firearms charges. On February 26, 2015...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Following the arrest earlier today of August Davison, 26, of Bakersfield, an indictment has been unsealed charging him with maintaining a drug-involved premises, conspiracy, and manufacturing and distributing marijuana in the form of hashish oil. According to court documents, from approximately January 2014 to April 2015, Davison...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - - A federal grand jury returned a 22-count indictment today against 13 defendants from Sacramento, (Kern Co.) and Phoenix, Arizona, charging them with illegally trafficking large amounts of methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and marijuana. The defendants named in the indictment are: Jose Manuel Valdez Torres, 39, fugitive, of...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Joseph Shepherd and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that two men were sentenced for their roles in a cocaine and methamphetamine distribution ring operating in Caddo and Bossier parishes. Eugene O’Neal Cross, 40, of Marshall, Texas...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Today, after a five-day trial, a federal jury found Isreal “Puck” Washington, 41, of Sacramento, guilty of all 10 counts in the indictment for trafficking heroin, cocaine, cocaine base, and methamphetamine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. “Under the Smart on Crime initiative, the U.S. Department...