SEATTLE - Early this morning, federal agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration arrested a resident of Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood who had repeatedly sold marijuana to middle and high school students. On September 13, 2013, Alejandro Antonio Castillo, 51, was charged by a criminal complaint with conspiracy to distribute marijuana, two...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Joshua Mustovich, 31, from Fairbanks, Alaska, was sentenced on September 6, 2013, in U.S. District Court to 87 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release. Mustovich had previously pled guilty to count one of an indictment charging him with drug conspiracy. In January 2012, Mustovich...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On August 30, 2013, four Anchorage men were indicted for drug conspiracy, kidnapping, and using firearms in furtherance of these crimes. The four men indicted are as follows: Stuart T. Seugasala, a/k/a "Tone", age 38; Phosavan Khamnivong, a/k/a "P.K.", age 33, Timothy Miller, a/k/a "Lil' Tone", age...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Lida Amin, 39, of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Dublin, Calif., was arrested Wednesday in Prague, Czech Republic, by Czech authorities pursuant to a U.S. request for her provisional arrest with a view toward extradition, Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney...

RICHMOND, Calif. - The Drug Enforcement Administration Oakland Resident Office in cooperation with the Richmond Police Department and the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office arrested twenty-three members of a violent street gang based in Richmond, California. As a result of this four month long investigation, murders and violence in...

SEATTLE - A drug trafficker who came to the attention of law enforcement after his roommate was shot and killed in November 2012, was sentenced on August 27, 2013, in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 15 years in prison and five years of supervised release. Juan Hidalgo-Mendoza, 33, of...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sean Michael Warner, 28, and Max Raymond Jewett, 36, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage on August 22, 2013. Both Warner and Jewett are charged with participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy that resulted in the death of a minor, as well as distributing...

FRESNO, Calif. - Damone Kelley, 45, of Fresno, is the last of seven defendants to plead guilty today for his involvement in a drug and money laundering ring that extended from Fresno to Alabama and Georgia, Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B...

FRESNO, Calif. - Gerardo Morales, 23, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to cultivate, distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana grown on a 20-acre agricultural parcel in Alpaugh, Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. According to court documents, on May...

FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a single count indictment today, charging Phouvanh Vongsenekeo, 25, of Phoenix, with manufacturing and possessing with the intent to distribute one hundred or more marijuana plants and one hundred or more kilograms of marijuana, between July 9, 2013, and August 9, 2013...