PENSACOLA, Fla. - Aaron M. Booker, 27, Joseph F. Booker Jr., 29, and Kaishawndra Lyons, 25, all of Pensacola, and Uy Nguyen, 35, of Vallejo, California, have been sentenced for charges arising from a multi-state drug and money laundering conspiracy. Joseph Booker was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison...

SEATTLE - A six month investigation of significant heroin and methamphetamine trafficking in the north Puget Sound region culminated in 11 federal arrests on July 17, 2018. Agents and officers served 33 search warrants which resulted in the seizure of 18 firearms, ten pounds of heroin, 20 pounds of methamphetamine...

(SEATTLE) - A Canadian national who was extradited in January 2018 in connection with a 2008-2009 international drug smuggling scheme, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to seven years in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances. Colin Hugh Martin, 46, from British...

(BOISE, Idaho) - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex M. Azar III, announced today the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action involving 601 charged defendants across 58 federal districts, including 165 doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals, for their alleged...

(SEATTLE) - In the fourth major drug trafficking ring takedown in as many months, federal, state and local law enforcement officers fanned out across King, Pierce, Snohomish, Skagit and Thurston counties to execute search warrants and arrested 36 members of a drug trafficking organization. These arrests are the fourth takedown...

(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) - Four Anchorage residents have been charged for attempting to smuggle drugs into the State of Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC) Anchorage Correctional Complex (“ACC”). Steven Cao, 32, a federal inmate at the time of the offense, Brandon Beltz, 26, Jennifer Delossantos, 33, and Allyson Moore, 20, all...

PHOENIX - DEA Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman, along with the Tempe Police Department and Arizona Attorney General’s Office, announced the recent takedown of a local methamphetamine trafficking ring. Five people were indicted for their alleged involvement in a drug trafficking organization that operated in Tempe, Tolleson, Avondale, and...

SEATTLE - Over the last few days investigators executed search warrants at 17 different Puget Sound area locations, and a commercial property in New Jersey, in connection with an internationally funded drug trafficking organization sending thousands of pounds of marijuana grown in Washington to the New York City area. One...

PHOENIX - The DEA’s Phoenix Field Division has finished calculating the amount of drugs collected from those agencies who participated in the April 28th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. Arizonans turned out in massive numbers and disposed of 12,025.43 pounds, over six tons, of prescription drugs. The total for...

PHOENIX - The DEA announced the conclusion of its case against Juan Mark Sayegh, 44, of Phoenix, who earlier this week was sentenced in federal court to serve 48 months in prison and ordered to forfeit an estimated $1.7 million in cash and assets. Sayegh was the owner and operator...