FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Gerardo Norzagaray-Pereda, 31, of Mexico, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute heroin and methamphetamine. This case is the product of an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department. Assistant United States Attorney Elana...

FRESNO, CA -- - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced today that Juvenal Paredes Sanchez, 36, of Merced County, pleaded guilty today to using a communication (cellular phone) in furtherance of a marijuana cultivation and distribution conspiracy. This...

PHILADELPHIA, PA - Christopher Vassalluzzo, D.O., 47, of New Hope, PA, pleaded guilty today to participating in a conspiracy to operate an office that was, in fact, a “pill mill” that distributed millions of prescription controlled substance diet drugs outside a professional practice. Vassalluzzo’s office, where he had others operate...

FRESNO, CA -- - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced today that Shirley Wong, aka Ngoc Li Vuong, 43, of San Jose, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for conspiring to commit mail fraud in connection...

FRESNO, CA -- - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner, Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims, DEA Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams, ICE-HSI Special Agent Charge Mark Wollman, and ATF Special Agent in Charge Stephen C. Herkins announced today that the last of five defendants charged following a drug...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - This spring, the Drug Enforcement Administration and its national and community partners will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. On Saturday, April 30th, from 10 a.m. to 2...

FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner, Treasury Inspector General of Tax (TIGTA) Special Agent in Charge Julie Parodi, IRS - Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Scott O’Briant, and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced that Kulwant Lasher, 54, an owner of...

FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced that Eduardo Medina-Mendoza, aka Eduardo Nunez Medina, 48, of Guerrero, Mexico, entered a guilty plea yesterday to conspiring to manufacture or cultivate, to distribute, and to possess with intent...

FRENSO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced today that Sokha Bhopal, aka Balwinder Singh Bhopal, 51, of Punjab, India, was sentenced on March 14, 2011, to seven years and two months in prison to be...

FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams, announced that a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment today against Timothy Duane, 30, for failure to appear, adding the a fifth criminal charge to four pending drug charges...