SAN FRANCISCO - Christopher Napoli, 46, of Newtown Square, Penn., Daniel “DJ” Johnson, 40, of Pekin, Ill., and Joseph Carozza, 67, of West Orange, N.J., were convicted by a federal jury yesterday of conspiring to distribute and distributing controlled substances that were not based on valid prescriptions issued by a...

FRESNO, Calif. - Two years after a federal jury in Fresno convicted Gurmeet Bisla, 31, of Livingston, of conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute at least 1,000 kilograms of cocaine, U.S. District Judge Anthony W. Ishii sentenced Bisla to 16 years in prison, Drug Enforcement Administration...

SEATTLE - A 52 year old resident of Custer, Whatcom County, Washington was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 12 years in prison and five years of supervised release for his role as a drug courier in a massive, international drug smuggling scheme. Glen Stewart was convicted...

FRESNO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced Jonathan Vega, 25, of Fresno, to 19 years and seven months in prison for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute it, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner. This...

FRESNO, Calif.) - Two men involved in the large-scale cultivation of marijuana on agricultural land pleaded guilty today, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Devil’s Den, Kings County (1:12-cr-233-LJO) - In the first case, Jonathan Anthony Meza, 20, of...

FRESNO, Calif. - Lynn Truong, aka Linh Thi Truong, 40, of Clovis, was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for a conspiracy to defraud lenders while buying homes to use to grow marijuana, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B...

MEDFORD, Ore. - Today, Donald Galvan, 48, of Central Point, Oregon, was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for conspiracy to manufacture and distribute 100 or more kilograms of marijuana. The charge stemmed from an April 2011 traffic stop in Texas where police seized 43 pounds of marijuana. The...

FRESNO, Calif. - An indictment was unsealed today following the arrests of two members of a methamphetamine ring that distributed the drug from the Central Valley to Honolulu, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner. On October 11, 2012...

FRESNO, Calif. - Erik Forest Basye, aka Erik Bayse, 33, of Sanger, and Peo Xayphengsy, 51, of Alto, Ga., were indicted today for their involvement in a large marijuana cultivation operation in Sanger, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced...

FRESNO, Calif. - Oscar Arellano Iniego, 55, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to eight years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute crystal methamphetamine, Drug Enforcement Administration Special...