ANCHORAGE, AK- - Jeremy Locklear, 28, a resident of Wasilla, Alaska, was sentenced on September 1, 2011, to 64 months in prison for attempted possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. The evidence established that Locklear is the nephew of Ricky Alan Reese, who in February 2011, was convicted...

SEATTLE, WASH-- - A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment on August 18, 2011, charging 18 subjects involved in a Sinaloa, Mexico drug trafficking organization with multiple conspiracy and/or firearms charges. The organization was smuggling heroin and methamphetamine into Arizona, and then transporting it for distribution as far east...

SAN DIEGO, CA - Acting Special Agent in Charge William R. Sherman, San Diego Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced today the arrests of 60 defendants as part of a takedown targeting Mexican and Iraqi drug trafficking organizations called Operation Shadowbox. In January of 2011, El Cajon PD...

TACOMA, WASH. - On August 3, 2011, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration with the assistance of the Clark-Skamania Drug Task Force seized over 16 pounds of crystal methamphetamine and executed multiple search warrants in Vancouver, Wash. Ricardo Estrada, 43, of Vancouver, Wash., and Francisco Cervantes, 47, of Vancouver, Wash., were...

ARCHORAGE - Ryan Travis Brown, a resident of Palm Harbor, Florida, pled guilty in federal court on July 27, 2011, to conspiring to distribute 400 grams or more of a substance containing fentanyl. According to information presented to the court, Brown conspired with Anchorage co-defendants Brackston Moores, Amanda Moss, and...

SAN DIEGO, CA - Acting Special Agent in Charge William R. Sherman, San Diego Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Bonnie Dumanis, District Attorney for San Diego County announced today the arrests of 23 defendants as part of “Project Delirium,” a national takedown targeting Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations...

SPOKANE, WASH - The Drug Enforcement (DEA), the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Washington, the Washington State Patrol, and the Spokane Regional Drug Task Force announced today a sweeping enforcement action against a large scale methamphetamine and cocaine drug trafficking organization in Eastern Washington. “The 25...

SEATTLE, WASH - Andres Rene Rodriguez, 25, of Shoreline, Washington, was sentenced on July 15, 2011 in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 40 months in prison and three years of supervised release for nine counts related to drug trafficking and gun possession. Rodriguez was convicted March 3, 2011. The...

ANCHORAGE, AK- - Mark Thomas, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, Seattle Field Division, announced that eight people were indicted on June 21, 2011 by a federal grand jury in Anchorage for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone. The 20-count indictment names as defendants Anchorage residents Jordan Young, 23, Yale...

ANCHORAGE - Mark Thomas, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, Seattle Field Division, announced that on July 13, 2011, a federal jury in Anchorage found a Washington man guilty of one count of attempted possession of more than five kilograms of cocaine, with the intent to distribute. After...