SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment today charging Edwin Malo-Vergara, 50; Aurelio Ruben-Bulgin, 25; and Jose Junez-Ramirez Sr., 46, all of Stockton, with drug trafficking, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. The...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that a federal grand jury returned a multi-count indictment charging Israel “Puck” Washington, 39, of Sacramento; Deyonte Spears, 25, of Oakland; Tyrone Weathersby, 44, of Sacramento; Anthony Sanchez...

BOISE, Idaho - Two brothers and former owners and operators of two Treasure Valley head shops, Smoke Shack and Smoke Shack Two were sentenced to federal prison on June 4, 2013, for offering drug paraphernalia for sale and one count of money laundering. Robert T. Guerrero, Jr., 36, of Meridian...

BOISE, Idaho - Alonso Martinez, 26, of Earlimart, California, was sentenced on June 4, 2013, to 60 months in prison for possession of 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine with intent to deliver. Martinez, born in Mexico but a naturalized citizen of the United States, was also ordered to...

SEATTLE - A former Amanda Park, Washington resident who operated a shingle mill as a cover for distributing methamphetamine was sentenced today to ten years in prison. Jose Naur Sanchez, 35, was arrested in June 2012, following a lengthy investigation led by the Drug Enforcement Administration. Sanchez pleaded guilty in...

MEDFORD, Ore. - Robert Hisamoto, 42, of Ashland, Oregon, was sentenced today to 48 months in federal prison for conspiracy to manufacture and distribute marijuana. Hisamoto is the owner and operator of Samurai Fighting Arts in Medford, Oregon. In August 2011, the investigation led by the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA)...

FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today charging Ignacio Ramos Beltran, 49, of Salinas, with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine and possessing cocaine with intent to distribute it, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin...

BOISE, Idaho - - Lena Kettle, 46, of Caldwell, Idaho, Heidi Aguila, 34, of Middleton, Idaho, and Kenneth Jones, 47, of Elverta, California, appeared in federal court on May 28, 2013, on an 89-count federal indictment charging them and 17 others with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine; possession with intent to...

(MEDFORD, Ore.) - - Brian Wayne Simmons, 40, of Medford, Oregon, was sentenced on May 28, 2013, to 15 years in federal prison for conspiracy, and manufacturing and distributing marijuana. Simmons owned and operated Brian’s Green Thumb Farm on East Gregory Road in Central Point, Oregon, purporting to grow organic...

(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) - - Jeraelyn Hill a/k/a, “Dreadhead,” a/k/a, “Coo Rae,” a/k/a, “Coo,” a/k/a, “Rae”, 25, from Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced on May 23, 2013, in U.S. District Court for his role in an Anchorage and Fairbanks drug conspiracy. Hill received a sentence of 66 months in prison and three...