MIAMI – Ten defendants have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a South Florida cocaine trafficking conspiracy that involved cocaine supplied by a Mexican drug cartel and others. U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles sentenced Reinaldo Fernandez, 63, to 188 months in federal prison; Javier Garcia-Mora, 40...

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – A drug trafficking and money laundering network operating from Detroit, Michigan, to Morgantown, West Virginia, has been dismantled following a coordinated multi-state investigation, U.S. Attorney Matthew L. Harvey announced today. “When agencies come together to take poison off the streets, communities are safer,” said U.S. Attorney...

LAREDO, Texas – A 52-year-old Mexican national has been ordered to prison for his role in two-year, multimillion-dollar trade-based money laundering conspiracy to move drug trafficking proceeds through Texas to Mexico. Gabriel Arturo Castillo of Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, pleaded guilty April 8. U.S. District Judge Marina Garcia Marmolejo has...

ST. PAUL – United States Attorney Daniel N. Rosen announced that Eric Anthony Rodriguez, 47, was sentenced to 260 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. According to court documents and the record at trial, Rodriguez conspired with other co-defendants to...

LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Los Angeles Field Division has new leadership. DEA Administrator Terrance C. Cole has appointed David S. Olesky as the Special Agent in Charge (SAC), covering Southern California, Nevada, Hawaii and the U.S. Territories of Guam and Saipan. Special Agent in Charge Olesky...

Tampa, FL – United States Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe announces the unsealing of an indictment charging: Name Offenses Maximum Penalties Edgar Alejandro Lopez Velasco (44, Mexico) Conspiracy to commit narco-terrorism Conspiracy to provide material support to terrorism Drug importation conspiracy Firearms trafficking conspiracies Life Imprisonment Noe Diaz Jimenez (33, Mexico)...

Jacksonville, Fla. – United States Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe announces the unsealing of an Indictment charging 13 defendants—all alleged members and associates of the Slime gang—with crimes including racketeering conspiracy, drug trafficking conspiracy, murder-for-hire, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, and retaliating against a witness. Slime was primarily active in the Northside...

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...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – United States Attorney Moore Capito announced this week that MWI Veterinary Supply Inc. (MWI) has agreed to pay $100,000 to resolve allegations it failed to identify large oxycodone HCL orders from a Putnam County, West Virginia, veterinarian as suspicious or flag them to authorities, resulting in abuse...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today the Department of Justice, in coordination with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and National Coordination Center (NCC) announced new charges...