New York - United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, Acting Attorney General for the United States, Todd Blanche, and Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), Terrance C. Cole, announced today the unsealing of a Complaint charging ABDUL ZAHIR QADEER, a/k/a “Haji Abdul...

SAN FRANCISCO – On June 24, 2026, Javier Velasquez Antunes was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison for dealing methamphetamine while illegally possessing a loaded handgun and shotgun. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria handed down the sentence. Antunes, 50, a national of Mexico, was indicted by a federal grand...

HONOLULU – United States Attorney for the District of Hawaii Ken Sorenson announced that Dylan Tai Dang, 55, of Garden Grove, California, was sentenced Tuesday, July 7, by United States District Judge Shanlyn A.S. Park to 87 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to...

MUSKOGEE, OK – Jason Duane Henrichs, age 47, of Checotah, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for one count of Distribution of Methamphetamine. The charge arose from an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration Oklahoma District Office and the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics. On October 9, 2025, Henrichs...

MINNEAPOLIS – United States Attorney Daniel N. Rosen announced today that Juan Carlos Felix, 47, the lead defendant in a large-scale drug trafficking case that involved an extensive undercover operation, was sentenced to 200 months’ imprisonment. On November 18, 2025, Felix pleaded guilty for his role in an expansive methamphetamine...

LAS VEGAS – A federal jury convicted three men last week for their participation in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl, announced the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Nevada “This jury verdict is the result of our strong partnership with the DEA to make Nevada’s communities...

NEW BERN, N.C. – A federal judge sentenced Kerby Pata, 40, of Miramar Florida, to over 12 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute more than 11 pounds of cocaine and conspiracy to possess with the intent to sell more than 50 grams of meth. In August 2022, Homeland...

DALLAS, TX - A Fort Worth man was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for possessing with intent to distribute over 244 kilograms of methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould. “This 480-month sentence of Mr. Hidrogo sends an unmistakable message to those...

DALLAS, TX - Three men were arrested and charged by federal complaint in Abilene, Texas for their roles in a months-long narcotics operation. Inez Jonathan Leal, 28, and Joseph Santos Carillo, 51, both from Abilene, Texas, and Luis Arturo Carrillo, Jr., 28, from California, were charged by federal complaint on...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- A Dubuque man who distributed methamphetamine and attempted to escape from a correctional facility was sentenced on June 30, to 25 years in federal prison. Christopher Allen Puccio, age 32, from Dubuque, Iowa, received the prison term after a July 21, 2025, guilty plea to one...