ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A former Eagle River advanced nurse practitioner was sentenced on Thursday to 26 years in prison following her guilty plea in which she admitted illegally prescribing and dispensing opioids and other drugs outside the scope of legitimate medical practice and thereby causing the overdose deaths of three...

PORTLAND, Ore. —Fernando Lombera Gonzalez, 34, a Mexican national unlawfully residing in the United States, was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison and five years of supervised release on Tuesday for conspiring to distribute more than three pounds of methamphetamine in Oregon. According to court documents, in late May...

RAPID CITY - A Tucson, Arizona, man, Francisco Siquieros-Valenzuela, also known as “Pancho,” 32, was sentenced November 9, to 14 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release and ordered to pay $100 special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund. Siquieros-Valenzuela was indicted for Conspiracy to...

Seattle – A 36-year-old Mexican national, who was tending a drug stash house in Everett and making drug deliveries for a large drug trafficking organization, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to five years in prison. Sylvestre Ramos was arrested October 28, 2025, following a year-long investigation...

ALBANY, NEW YORK – On November 4, 2026, Eric Hines, age 28, of Watervliet, New York, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for possessing fentanyl with the intention to distribute. U.S. District Judge Anne M. Nardacci also imposed an 8-year term of supervised release to follow his release...

OMAHA, Neb., -- Keith Pumala, 67, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture of methamphetamine. There is no parole in the federal system. After Pumala is released from prison...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - DEA New York Enforcement Division Special Agent in Charge Farhana Islam and U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced today that Bobby R. Calhoun, 33, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Anchorage man was sentenced earlier this week to 10 years in prison for the distribution of controlled substances. According to court documents, beginning around May 2025 and continuing into September 2025, Shane Norman Caliph Derryberry, 59, sold approximately 100 grams of fentanyl powder to multiple individuals...

SAN FRANCISCO – On October 24, 2026, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and more than 4,200 law enforcement partners collected 645,636 pounds of unused medications as part of ongoing efforts to prevent drug misuse. This event marked DEA’s 31st National Prescription Drug Take Back Day with 4,212 collection sites nationwide...

ALBANY, NEW YORK – On November 4, 2026, Emery Moore, age 57, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced to 180 months in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possession of a firearm as a felon. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) New...