Pensacola, Florida – Loredana Alessandra Bassolino, 38, of Navarre, Florida was sentenced to five years in federal prison after previously pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute more than 40 grams of fentanyl and more than 5 grams of methamphetamine. The sentence was announced by John P. Heekin, United...

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – A third superseding indictment recently unsealed in the Eastern District of Louisiana charges six members and associates of a Colombian-Russian drug trafficking organization with federal drug trafficking offenses, including conspiring to import hundreds of kilograms of cocaine into the United States, announced U.S. Attorney David I...

Pensacola, Fla. –John Martin Elmore, 37, of Crestview, Fla., pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of conspiracy to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine or 500 grams of a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine and one count of possession of more than 50 grams of methamphetamine or...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – A Mississippi man has been sentenced for his involvement in a drug conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Phillip W. Williams Jr. U.S. District Judge Edmund G. LaCour sentenced Jabreon Deshon Mosley, Jr., 36, of Meridian, Mississippi, to 300 months in prison. Mosley was convicted by a federal jury...

Special Agent in Charge of the New York Enforcement Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), Farhana Islam, and United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jamie McDonald, announced the unsealing of an Indictment charging GLEN CONTRERAS and ERICK MARCANO with conspiring to distribute vast quantities of...

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – On November 4, 2026, JOSEPH HALL (“HALL”), age 56, was sentenced by United States District Judge Lance M. Africk to 120 months as to Counts One, Two, and Four of the indictment pending against him, announced United States Attorney David I. Courcelle. HALL was also sentenced...

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – JOSHUA BENSON (“ BENSON”), a/k/a “Big Mal,” age 36, of New Orleans, pled guilty on November 3, 2026, before United States District Judge Wendy B. Vitter to Counts One, Three, Four, Five, and Six of a six-count indictment charging him with violations of the Federal Controlled...

ABERDEEN, MS – Kelvis Orr, 36, of West Point, Mississippi, was sentenced to 96 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years supervised release. Senior District Judge Glen H. Davidson sentenced the defendant after Orr previously pleaded guilty to distribution in excess of 500 grams of methamphetamine and being a...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The Drug Enforcement Administration’s Caribbean Division, alongside the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Puerto Rico and its Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) partners, announced that three defendants pleaded guilty and two were sentenced in federal cases during the week of October 26–30, 2026...

MIAMI – An alleged member of a Guatemala-based drug trafficking organization has been extradited from Guatemala to the Southern District of Florida to face federal charges for his role in an international cocaine trafficking conspiracy spanning four countries. According to court records, from 2012 through 2023, Mauro Ismael Morales Martinez...