SEATTLE - DEA Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg today 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...

SEATTLE - Two men who invited a third man to use their Bellevue, Washington apartment for the illegal manufacturing of hash oil were sentenced to prison on July 20, 2015, in U.S. District Court in Seattle. Jesse D. Kaplan, 32, of Redmond, Washington and Daniel James Strycharske, 29, of Kirkland...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Anchorage couple was sentenced on Friday, July 17, 2015, in U.S. District Court to serve 135 months and 72 months respectively for their involvement in drug trafficking, money laundering, and gun crimes. Daniel Martin Harris, 28, of Anchorage, Alaska, previously pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and...

ALBANY, N.Y. - Michael Elcox, 43, of Ghent, New York, was sentenced to 37 months in prison by United States District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian, James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division, and Shantelle P...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Arvin Terrill Carmen, 39, of Los Angeles, California, and Spokane, Washington, was sentenced to 50 years in prison following a five-week jury trial. Carmen was found guilty of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to distribute oxycodone, and possession with intent to distribute oxycodone. In addition...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Omar Alarcon Fuentes, 37, of Sunnyside, Washington, was sentenced on July 2, 2015, for distributing 50 grams or more of pure methamphetamine, and being an illegal alien in possession of ammunition. In the methamphetamine case, Fuentes was sentenced to a ten year term of imprisonment and a...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sean Michael Warner, 29, was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for one count of distribution of heroin on June 29, 2015. Warner previously pleaded guilty on September 2, 2014 to distributing heroin. At that hearing, Warner admitted to personally injecting a 14-year-old minor with heroin...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, a total of 12 members and associates of the Bloods street gang located in Queens, New York, including Covel Duncan, a New York State Corrections Officer at Riker’s Island, were arrested on narcotics trafficking charges. The defendants’ initial appearances are scheduled this afternoon before United...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., Western District of New York, announced today that Richard Himbury, 43, of Tonawanda, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to distribute over 15 kilograms of cocaine...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., Western District of New York, announced today that Fannie Long, 53, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, was sentenced to 96...