MAY 7 -- United States Attorney John L. Brownlee announced today that Deron Jones, 37, of Bristol, Virginia, was sentenced in the United States District Court in Abingdon, Virginia, to two terms of life imprisonment and two additional terms of ten years imprisonment. Jones was convicted in December, 2006 by...

APR 24 -- (Alexandria, VA) – Today, a grand jury sitting in Alexandria, Virginia, indicted Tony Ervin Lopez on one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, four counts of distribution of cocaine and four counts of using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to drug trafficking crimes. Chuck...

APR 12 -- (RICHMOND, VA) - Seven students at Hampden-Sydney College in Prince Edward County, Virginia were arrested today on federal charges following a joint local, state, and federal narcotics distribution investigation. Additional students were also arrested on state charges. Shawn Johnson, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)...

FEB 26-- Greenbelt, Maryland - Stevie Burton, age 43, of Forestville, Maryland, was sentenced today to 352 months in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release for participating in a narcotics conspiracy and carrying a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime, announced United States Attorney for the...

FEB 21--Greenbelt, Maryland - Steven Andre Fenwick age 34, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland was sentenced today to 140 months in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine and conspiracy to commit money laundering, announced United States Attorney for the District of...

FEB 21-- Greenbelt, Maryland - Derek Curtis, age 63, of Seabrook, Maryland, was sentenced today to 63 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances including Oxydodone, and for distributing cocaine from his dental office, announced United States Attorney for the District...

(Alexandria, VA) – Sergio Adrian Sicairos, 28, of Pomona, California, was sentenced today to 235 months in federal prison by United States District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee based on convictions for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and conspiracy to commit money laundering. United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia...

JAN 8 -- (Alexandria, VA) - Alexandre de Basseville, 36, of Los Angeles, California, and Geneva, Switzerland, was sentenced today to 240 months in prison and ordered to forfeit $528,500, after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to distribute MDMA (“Ecstasy”). Chuck Rosenberg, United States...

DEC 18--Washington, DC- The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), announced that a Federal Grand Jury Has Indicted 13 Defendants With Drug Trafficking, Health Care Fraud And Possession Of Firearms. The indictment alleges that from at least February, 1999 to November, 2003 the defendants used fraudulent prescriptions to obtain Oxycontin, Percocet and...

Special Agent in Charge of DEA’s Washington Division, Laura M. Nagel, announced the sentencing of Henry Antoine Saunders, 26, of Washington, DC, to 181 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his participation in crimes arising from a conspiracy to distribute powder cocaine in Maryland and...