PORTLAND, Ore. - Today, in separate proceedings, Jose Antonio Soto-Vasquez, 29, and Jesus Manual Soto-Vasquez, 27, were each sentenced in U.S. District Court to ten years in prison. Earlier this year, both men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Both brothers were part...

POCATELLO, Idaho - Juan Ramon Yuen-Rodriguez, 29, of Sinaloa, Mexico, was sentenced on September 15, 2014, after having previously pleaded guilty on May 24, 2014, to distribution of methamphetamine. Yuen-Rodriquez was sentenced to 210 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release and a $500 fine...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Thony Yang, 24, of Fairbanks, Alaska, was sentenced on September 22, 2014, for conspiracy to possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Yang was sentenced to 120 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised of release. On March 5, 2014, law enforcement officers identified...

TACOMA, Wash. - Arnoldo Mendoza Ramos, 28, of Tacoma, Washington, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 130 months in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense. Mendoza Ramos is a Mexican...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Carmine G. Mandarano, a medical doctor whose practice is located in East Islip, New York, pleaded guilty today to the illegal distribution of oxycodone, a highly addictive prescription pain killer. Mandarano entered his plea before United States Magistrate Judge Gary R. Brown at the United States Courthouse...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Bryant Andrew Delaremore, a career criminal who committed gun offenses for decades, was sentenced to 234 months in prison following his February 2, 2012, guilty plea to possession of a firearm after having previously been convicted of three violent...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William J. Bratton, the Commissioner of the New York City Police (NYPD)...

ALBANY, N.Y. - United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced today the distribution of $12,515,738 which represented the proceeds of assets seized in a marijuana distribution conspiracy. Of the total assets, $8,923,708.19 has been distributed to 33 law enforcement agencies in the Capitol District area and as far away as...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Robert M. Faiella, a/k/a “BTCKing,” an underground Bitcoin exchanger, and Charlie Shrem, formerly the Chief Executive Officer and Compliance Officer of a Bitcoin exchange company, both pleades guilty yesterday before U.S. District...

SEATTLE - A grand jury indictment was unsealed on August 27, 2014, charging three men with conspiring to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine between Las Vegas and Alaska. The indictment charges three men: Daren D. Cole, 47, Dewane E. Blue, 37, and Bryan M. Bledsoe, 36. The indictment...