LAS VEGAS - - A Las Vegas physician has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he unlawfully prescribed large quantities of Oxycodone and other highly addictive prescription drugs, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada. Victor Bruce M.D., 48, of Las...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) is now utilizing Twitter to reach a larger audience and provide the latest news, tips, and useful information. Please consider following us at https://www.twitter.com/deanews To sign up for email updates from DEA, please visit: https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDOJDEA/subscriber/new To submit a tip about possible drug trafficking...

LAREDO, Texas - Javier F. Peña, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), Houston Division and Kenneth Magidson, United States Attorney, Southern District of Texas announced today Roberto Garcia, 29, and Juan Javier Reyna, 33, both of Houston, have been sentenced to federal prison for conspiring...

PHOENIX - DEA Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman and Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne today announced the arrests of six members of the Sanchez Money Laundering Organization in Tucson and New York. Armando Robles Urrea, Gladis Celaya-Reuelas, Noemi Suarez-Montijo, Frank Babcock, Concepcion Suarez-Montijo, and Maria Yvette Sanchez-Arvizu were arrested...

Note: Three defendants charged are not named in this document due to operational safety concerns. When those concerns are addressed, a comprehensive press release will be issued. LOS ANGELES - A multi-agency investigation into gang-related crime in the San Gabriel Valley has led to federal charges against 24 members and...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the DEA's El Paso Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough announced the indictment of 15 men on federal drug trafficking charges. The 15-count superseding indictment was unsealed today following an early morning multi-agency law enforcement operation resulting...

WASHINGTON - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Administrator Michele M. Leonhart and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced that Ioannis Viglakis, a/k/a "Pablo," pled guilty yesterday in Manhattan federal court to attempting to provide material support to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de ("FARC")...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Javier F. Peña, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), Houston Division and Kenneth Magidson, United States Attorney, Southern District of Texas announced today Julio Cesar Cardenas, 40, has been given four life sentences in federal prison for his involvement in leading a...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that HOWE'S PHARMACY of Milford and NELSON'S PHARMACY of Naugatuck have each entered into a civil settlement...

GREENBELT - , Md. - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Jose Joaquin Morales, age 37, of Baltimore, Maryland, to life in prison for using a cell phone to arrange the murder-for-hire of Robert Long, who was a cooperating witness in a case pending against Morales in the Circuit...