SAN FRANCISCO - Miguel Macias aka “Flaco” pleaded guilty today and Alejandro Miranda pleaded guilty on Sept. 24, 2014, to distribution and possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and conspiracy to launder money, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick, and...

POCATELLO, Idaho - Juan Ramon Yuen-Rodriguez, 29, of Sinaloa, Mexico, was sentenced on September 15, 2014, after having previously pleaded guilty on May 24, 2014, to distribution of methamphetamine. Yuen-Rodriquez was sentenced to 210 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release and a $500 fine...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Thony Yang, 24, of Fairbanks, Alaska, was sentenced on September 22, 2014, for conspiracy to possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Yang was sentenced to 120 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised of release. On March 5, 2014, law enforcement officers identified...

TACOMA, Wash. - Arnoldo Mendoza Ramos, 28, of Tacoma, Washington, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 130 months in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense. Mendoza Ramos is a Mexican...

FRESNO, Calif. - Two sentences for drug trafficking were handed down on Monday for cases originating in Bakersfield. Martin Barragan, 39, of Bakersfield, was sentenced by United States District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill to four years in prison for using an interstate facility to aid racketeering. According to court documents...

FRESNO, Calif. - Gamaliel Salas-Mendoza, aka Rene Salas-(Salas), 38, an undocumented alien from Mexico, was sentenced today to 11 years and eight months in prison for conspiring with his cousin Miguel Sanchez-Mendoza, 46, to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine. United States District...

FRESNO, Calif. - Canadian citizen Armitdeep Mann, 33, of Toronto, Canada, was sentenced today to five years and one month in prison by United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute cocaine. According to court documents, between July 1, 2012...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Andre Cawthorne, 40, of Vallejo, and Eileen Knight, 43, of Los Angeles, entered guilty pleas to drug trafficking charges arising out of a wide-ranging investigation into the distribution MDMA, popularly known as the drug “Ecstasy,” crack cocaine, heroin, Oxycodone, and marijuana in the Vallejo area. According to...

OAKLAND, Calif. - On Sept. 4, 2014, a federal grand jury indicted Doctor Michael Roger Chiarottino, with fourteen counts of distributing Schedule II controlled substances, and one count of distributing a Schedule III controlled substance outside the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose. The Indictment...

FRESNO, Calif. - United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii sentenced Sam Kounhavong, aka Inpong Kounhavong, 52, of Fresno, today to two years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for his involvement in a large-scale marijuana cultivation operation in Stanislaus County that was irrigated by...