SACRAMENTO - -Brandon A. Conley 31, of Stockton, was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez for growing marijuana and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano...

SAN FRANCISCO - - Rogelio Corral and Jose Efrain-Gonzalez were sentenced on May 16, 2013, to 14 years and 5 years, respectively, in prison for drug trafficking, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced. Corral and Efrain-Gonzalez pleaded guilty...

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...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - - United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. sentenced four defendants today to lengthy prison terms for conspiring to distribute (Ecstasy) and for possession with intent to distribute MDMA, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - - United States District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton sentenced William Robert Barsanti, 27, of Junction City, Calif., today to five years in prison for growing marijuana, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Barsanti also...

FRESNO, Calif. - - Senior U.S. District Judge Anthony W. Ishii sentenced brothers Edwan Dablan, 37, and Khamal Dablan, 25, both of Kingsburg, Calif., today to 10.5 years in prison and four years and nine months in prison, respectively, for participating in a long-term methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy based in the...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging four defendants with drug trafficking, announced United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano. According to the indictment, Miguel Angel Flores-Mendez, aka, Migue, aka Miguel, 22, of Mexico...

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...

FRESNO, Calif. - Ong Rikki Sonephady, 42, of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to growing marijuana, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. According to court documents, Sonephady was arrested at the marijuana farm where he lived. Law enforcement...

(SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today that the Honorable Garland E. Burrell Jr., District Judge, sentenced Robert Edward Mulready, of Placerville, California, to forty-two months imprisonment and a four-year term of supervised release...