Note: Relevant court documents can be found here. Today, the Department of Justice, through the Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement (JCODE) team, joined Europol to announce the results of Operation TorNado: a coordinated, multi‑agency and international law enforcement effort targeting criminal enterprises that use Dark Web markets to traffic...

LUBBOCK, TX - A 36-year-old Lubbock man was convicted on Nov. 10 of drug and gun charges following a multi-agency search warrant at his residence in January. Following a two-day trial presided over by U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix, a federal jury took less than two hours to convict...

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...

Tallahassee, Florida – Christopher L. Daniels, 47, of Tallahassee, Florida, was sentenced to 25 years in prison after being found guilty by a federal jury of possession with intent to distribute various controlled substances including more than 50 grams of methamphetamine, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon...

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...

BOSTON –Two men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly conspiring to distribute fentanyl in Worcester County. Richard Molina-Ovalle, 36, of Worcester and Jose Molina-Ovalle, 27, a Dominican national unlawfully residing in Worcester, were charged in an indictment with conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of...

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...