RENO – A Mexican national pleaded guilty Tuesday to possession with intent to distribute nearly two pounds of heroin. “Heroin is a highly addictive, destructive poison that destroys lives, tears families apart, and fuels a wave of fatal overdoses across our nation,” said First Assistant United States Attorney Sigal Chattah...

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...

ATLANTA – Gerardo Miranda Mendoza, an illegal alien from Mexico who was twice convicted of drug trafficking charges and twice removed from the United States, appeared in court yesterday to face new federal methamphetamine distribution and immigration charges after the seizure of more than 440 pounds of methamphetamine from a...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Justice Department today announced that 36 individuals, nine of whom are illegal aliens, have been charged in a multi-state Homeland Security Task Force investigation involving drug trafficking and money laundering that spans international borders. During the course of the investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seized...

LAS VEGAS – A Colombian national pleaded guilty Monday to selling thousands of Fentanyl-laced pills in the Las Vegas area. “Transnational drug trafficking networks believe they can operate with impunity inside our borders, but this plea proves otherwise,” said First Assistant United States Attorney Sigal Chattah for the District of...

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...

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...

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...

LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas man was sentenced today by United States District Judge Cristina D. Silva to 84 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl, and to launder thousands of dollars of...