(BELLINGHAM, Wash.) - - A 37-year-old Bellingham woman who was a key player in a Whatcom County drug distribution ring was sentenced on May 21, 2013, in U.S. District Court in Seattle to nine years in prison and four years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. Rosie...

MAY 20 - SEATTLE - A drug trafficker who came to the attention of law enforcement after his roommate was shot and killed in November 2012 was convicted on May 16, 2013, following a three day jury trial. Juan Hidalgo-Mendoza, 33, of Lakewood, Washington was convicted of conspiracy to distribute...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division Office of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Richard S. Hartunian, the United States Attorney of the Northern District of New York, announced that a federal jury has convicted Rosario (age 48) of East Syracuse...

MAY 16 - BOISE, Idaho - A federal grand jury in Boise on Tuesday indicted five Boise area residents on four counts of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance analogue; conspiracy to smuggle goods into the United States; conspiracy to sell and transport drug paraphernalia; and conspiracy to launder money...

MAY 15 - ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Mario Gutierrez, 40, from Northglenn, Colorado, was sentenced on May 10, 2103, in U.S. District Court to 186 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Gutierrez had previously pled guilty to an indictment charging him with one count of drug conspiracy and...

KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. - State, federal and local law enforcement agencies today dismantled a large and violent drug trafficking organization in Klamath County, arresting more than 30 suspects and charging them with multiple counts of racketeering and unlawful delivery of methamphetamine. During the course of the investigation, agents developed evidence...

(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) - - DeMar Moultrie, a/k/a, “Duckmane,” a/k/a, “All Day,” 25, from Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced on May 1, 2013, in U.S. District Court for his role in an Anchorage and Fairbanks drug conspiracy. Moultrie was sentenced to 40 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Moultrie...

(SEATTLE) - - A Canadian truck driver who was identified as a drug smuggler for a criminal group related to the Hells Angels was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 12 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute marijuana. James Postlethwaite, 60, of North Vancouver, BC, Canada was convicted...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - John Venizelos, also known as “John V,” “Big Man” and “John from Staten Island,” an alleged associate of the Bonanno organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra, pled guilty earlier today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Joan M. Azrack at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn to drug trafficking...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, an indictment was unsealed charging Queens Doctor Gracia L. Mayard with illegal distribution of oxycodone, a highly-addictive prescription medicine used to treat severe pain. Mayard is scheduled to be arraigned at 3:00 p.m. today before United States District Judge Joseph F. Bianco, at the United...