SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Jessica Scott, an employee of Covenant Aviation (CAS), a private company that contracts with the Transportation Security (TSA), was sentenced today to one year and a day in prison for her role in a conspiracy to defraud the federal government. The sentence was handed down by...

NEW YORK - An indictment was returned late yesterday in the United States Court for the Eastern District of New York charging Michael Belfiore, a Merrick, New York, doctor, with two counts of illegal distribution of oxycodone causing the deaths of two Nassau County residents, Edward Martin and John Ubaghs...

FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury in Fresno indicted eight defendants today for their participation in a methamphetamine and heroin distribution conspiracy. U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and DEA San Francisco Special Agent-in-Charge John J. Martin made this announcement today. The indictment charges Jose Luis Zambrano, 33; Juan Carlos...

NEW YORK - Later today, Albert Veliu and Anthony Noterile will be arraigned at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York on charges relating to the operation of extortion, money laundering, and narcotics trafficking schemes that ultimately resulted in Veliu’s sale to law enforcement of over a dozen AK-47s and...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division and Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Terrance Williams, aka “TA,” was sentenced this afternoon in Manhattan federal court to...

FRESNO, Calif. - Daniel Rios, 33, of Kern County, pled guilty today to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and John J. Marin, DEA Special Agent-in-Charge of the San Francisco Division announced. According to court documents, between March 1, 2016, and June 29, 2016, Rios conspired with...

FRESNO, Calif. - Carlos Gerardo Blanco, 27, and Henry Polin Morales III, 21, both of Bakersfield, pled guilty today to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and DEA Special Agent-in-Charge John J. Martin announced. According to court documents, between November 2014 and December 2015, Blanco conspired with...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police (NYPD) announced the unsealing...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bobby Napier was sentenced to 48 months’ imprisonment for bribing a public official in order to smuggle drugs through passenger security screening at San Francisco International (SFO). The sentence was announced by Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin and Acting United States Attorney...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Raul Guadalupe Monjardin-Iribe was sentenced today to 175 (14 years, 7 months) in prison for his part in a conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin. The sentence was...