RAPID CITY, SD – United States Attorney Ronald A. Parsons, Jr. announced at a joint press conference held today in Rapid City, South Dakota, that a multi-agency law enforcement operation has resulted in the arrest of 14 individuals located throughout the Pine Ridge Reservation, Rapid City, and Box Elder, South...

MINEOLA, N.Y. -- Drug Enforcement Administration New York Enforcement Division Special Agent in Charge Farhana Islam, Nassau County District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly and Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder announced that six men have been charged with multiple counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance, criminal sale of a firearm...

MINNEAPOLIS – United States Attorney Daniel N. Rosen announced today that five defendants were collectively sentenced to over 500 months of imprisonment for their roles in a large-scale drug trafficking case out of Wadena County. The following individuals were sentenced: Robert Joseph Anderson, 40, of Wadena, Minnesota, 132 months for...

WINONA, Minn. – More than 250 people walked in Winona today, as part of a nationwide Walk for Lives event hosted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Omaha Field Division and United Against in Fentanyl (UAF) in coordination with RIPple Drug Education and Awareness Inc . Community members from...

ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Cristian M. Stevens on Tuesday sentenced a man who was involved in a drug conspiracy that caused one fatal and one nonfatal overdose to 200 months in prison. Haeder Jameel, 23, was also ordered to pay $51,005 in restitution to the parents of the...

MINNEAPOLIS – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and United Against Fentanyl (UAF) will host Walk for Lives Saturday, July 11, at more than 100 locations nationwide, including a family-led event in Winona, Minnesota. This national partnership with UAF is in support of DEA’s Fentanyl Free America initiative. Walk for...

CAMDEN, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of DEA’s New Jersey Field Division Towanda R. Thorne-James and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Robert Frazer announced a South Jersey psychiatrist admitted to issuing invalid prescriptions for Adderall, Vyvanse, and Xanax, and other drugs, often to his sexual partners...

PHOENIX, Ariz. – Edgar Giovany Baca-Anaya, 27, of Mesa, Arizona, was sentenced last week by United States District Judge Susan M. Brnovich to 120 months in prison, followed by 96 months of supervised release. Baca-Anaya previously pleaded guilty to Distribution of Fentanyl and admitted that the distribution resulted in the...

ST. LOUIS – A man from St. Peters, Missouri was charged with drug and gun crimes Wednesday after a toddler overdosed on fentanyl. Kevin Lamar Knowles, 50, was charged by complaint in U.S. District Court in St. Louis with one count of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, one count...

Forty-eight alleged drug traffickers and violators from San Angelo and the surrounding areas have been arrested as part of an 18-month-long narcotics operation, announced United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould at a press conference in San Angelo, Texas today. “This message should send a loud...