FRESNO, CA - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced the entry of guilty pleas and one sentencing in three separate marijuana-cultivation cases stemming from Operation Trident, a multi-agency marijuana enforcement effort in Madera, Fresno, and Tulare Counties in...

SACRAMENTO, CA - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that yesterday a federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment charging Kenneth George Eaton, age 55; William Joseph Bohac, age 62; Thomas Eugene Ganey, age 51; and Jonathan Dale...

FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams, and Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims announced that Javier Lopez-Estrada, aka Jose Esquivel Torres, age 27, of Michoacán, Mexico, was sentenced today to 12 years and three months in prison...

FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams, and Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims announced today that Phousangkhy Phanthadeth, aka Phou, age 38, of Fresno, pleaded guilty to conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana...

FRESNO, CA - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii sentenced Jonathan Michael Chapman, 32, of Bakersfield, today to 37 months in prison for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent...

SACRAMENTO, CA-- - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced local results in “Project Delirium,” a 20-month multi-agency law enforcement investigation, announced today by U.S. Department of Justice officials in Washington that targeted the La Familia Michoacana drug cartel. Since June 1, 2011, as part of an ongoing takedown, 221...

FRESNO, CA -- - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that eight people were indicted yesterday for conspiring to cultivate marijuana in Kern County: Bernardino Garcia, 45, of Farmersville; Martha M. Lopez, 44, of Farmersville; Maria G. Rivera, 47, of Exeter; Jose B. Robles, 64, of Visalia; Jorge M...

ALEXANDRIA, VA. - The leader and members of an international heroin trafficking ring have been charged with using couriers to smuggle heroin from Ghana into the United States, a sign of the growth of West Africa as a major hub for international drug trafficking. Today’s charges were made public after...

FRESNO, CA -- - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent-in-Charge Anthony Williams announced that on Monday, Jasdev “Jesse” Singh, 35, an automotive repair business owner in Bakersfield, was sentenced to seven years in prison, ordered to forfeit $1,011,067 in cash, and fined $2,000 for...

SACRAMENTO, CA -- - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced that a grand jury in Sacramento returned two separate indictments today, charging a total of 12 defendants in connection with two large commercial marijuana grow operations. The first...