SEATTLE - Two men who invited a third man to use their Bellevue, Washington apartment for the illegal manufacturing of hash oil were sentenced to prison on July 20, 2015, in U.S. District Court in Seattle. Jesse D. Kaplan, 32, of Redmond, Washington and Daniel James Strycharske, 29, of Kirkland...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Patricia Jane Albright, 64, of Nevada City, pleaded guilty on Monday to conspiring to manufacture marijuana, manufacturing marijuana, and structuring currency transactions to evade federal reporting requirements. On September 18, 2014, Albright’s son and co-conspirator, Jordan Wirtz, pleaded guilty to federal firearms charges. On February 26, 2015...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Anchorage couple was sentenced on Friday, July 17, 2015, in U.S. District Court to serve 135 months and 72 months respectively for their involvement in drug trafficking, money laundering, and gun crimes. Daniel Martin Harris, 28, of Anchorage, Alaska, previously pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Following the arrest earlier today of August Davison, 26, of Bakersfield, an indictment has been unsealed charging him with maintaining a drug-involved premises, conspiracy, and manufacturing and distributing marijuana in the form of hashish oil. According to court documents, from approximately January 2014 to April 2015, Davison...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Arvin Terrill Carmen, 39, of Los Angeles, California, and Spokane, Washington, was sentenced to 50 years in prison following a five-week jury trial. Carmen was found guilty of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to distribute oxycodone, and possession with intent to distribute oxycodone. In addition...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Omar Alarcon Fuentes, 37, of Sunnyside, Washington, was sentenced on July 2, 2015, for distributing 50 grams or more of pure methamphetamine, and being an illegal alien in possession of ammunition. In the methamphetamine case, Fuentes was sentenced to a ten year term of imprisonment and a...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - - A federal grand jury returned a 22-count indictment today against 13 defendants from Sacramento, (Kern Co.) and Phoenix, Arizona, charging them with illegally trafficking large amounts of methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and marijuana. The defendants named in the indictment are: Jose Manuel Valdez Torres, 39, fugitive, of...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sean Michael Warner, 29, was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for one count of distribution of heroin on June 29, 2015. Warner previously pleaded guilty on September 2, 2014 to distributing heroin. At that hearing, Warner admitted to personally injecting a 14-year-old minor with heroin...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Today, after a five-day trial, a federal jury found Isreal “Puck” Washington, 41, of Sacramento, guilty of all 10 counts in the indictment for trafficking heroin, cocaine, cocaine base, and methamphetamine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. “Under the Smart on Crime initiative, the U.S. Department...

FRESNO, Calif. - - Jose Luis Montoya-Salazar, aka Rafael Salazar-(Montoya), 42, of Mexico City, pleaded guilty today to conspiring with Jimmy Gil, 35, of Shafter, and Luis Ricardo Eslava-(Eslava) 42, of Sinaloa, Mexico, to import, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute 38 kilograms, or about 84 pounds, of cocaine...