Carlos ALMONTE PALMERS, convicted for his role in an interstate narcotics trafficking organization, received a 14-year prison sentence for Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the First Degree yesterday afternoon following a jury trial prosecuted by the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York...

LOS ANGELES – A Calabasas man was sentenced today to 324 months in federal prison for running what prosecutors called a “DoorDash for drugs” service that delivered illicit narcotics to buyers in Los Angeles and Ventura counties and resulted in two fatal fentanyl overdoses. Erick Oved Estrada, 37, a.k.a. “Franco...

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK — Law Enforcement officials announced the results of Operation Clean Sweep – Onondaga County, a major enforcement initiative resulting in several arrests and significant seizures of firearms and narcotics. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Enforcement Division Special Agent in Charge Farhana Islam, Northern District of New York...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A federal judge in Montgomery has sentenced the final defendant in a drug trafficking conspiracy that funneled narcotics and other contraband into a correctional facility in Elmore, Alabama. In total, five defendants have now been sentenced for their roles in the scheme. On July 30, 2026, Lilbrian...

LITTLE ROCK—Spencer Walker will spend the next 360 months in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Jonathan D. Ross, United States Attorney for the Eastern...

Greenville, MS – U.S. Attorney Scott Leary announced that a Homeland Security Task Force Operation led to the sentence of Christopher Caffey, a/k/a “Snow”, 49, of Grenada, Mississippi, for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl. Caffey was sentenced today before the Honorable Deborah M. Brown, Chief United States District Court...

Greenville, MS – U.S. Attorney Scott Leary announced that a Homeland Security Task Force Operation led to the sentence of Dannie Thomas, of Dacula, Georgia. Thomas was sentenced today before the Honorable Deborah M. Brown, Chief United States District Court Judge, to 120 months in federal prison for possession with...

SEATTLE – A 65-year-old national of the Dominican Republic, who was arrested in Colombia and extradited to the U.S., was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 96 months in prison for conspiracy to import cocaine and conspiracy to launder money, announced First Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Neil...

COVINGTON, La. - District Attorney J. Collin Sims announces that the 22nd Judicial District Attorney’s Office Opioid Initiative, in close partnership with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Fentanyl Overdose Response Team (DEA FORT), has arrested a suspected narcotics distributor following a recent investigation in eastern St. Tammany Parish. The multi-agency operation...

AMITE, La. — A Ponchatoula man has been sentenced to serve 30 years in prison for the fentanyl overdose death of a 27-year-old Hammond man. 21st Judicial District Attorney Scott Perrilloux and Special Agent in Charge John P. Scott of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) New Orleans Field Division jointly...