BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Francisco Javier Maya, 35, has been ordered to prison following his convictions of conspiracy to possess and possession with intent to distribute approximately 1,000 pounds of marijuana, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A jury convicted Maya...

PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration New England division and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Brian Wilkerson - , 36, of Dorchester, Massachusetts was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell sentenced Mohamad Abduljaber, 50, of Okemos, Michigan to three and a half years of imprisonment on charges of receipt of health care kickback payments and falsifying an income tax return, U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today. The convictions arise from...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Anthony Keslinke was charged today by superseding indictment in a scheme involving short sale mortgage fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick, and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez. According to the superseding...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Francisco Chavez-Arriaga, 50, of San Juan, has been ordered to prison following his conviction of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 10 kilograms of methamphetamine and five kilograms of cocaine, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Oscar Gomez Guerra, 43, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Corpus Christi on charges of conspiring to launder monetary instruments and aiding and abetting the operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned two separate indictments today for charges of trafficking cocaine and heroin. 99 (218 lbs.) of Cocaine Seized - In the first indictment, Todd Andrew Ayster, 49, of Long Beach, was charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. According to court...

MANHATTAN - Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson and James J. Hunt, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division, announced the indictment of six individuals for their roles in schemes to distribute heroin...

MANHATTAN - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that Christina Chai, the supervising pharmacist at Stanley Pharmacy in Yonkers, New (“Stanley Pharmacy”), and Hi Jong Lee, the owner of Stanley Pharmacy and also a pharmacist, were found guilty Monday in Manhattan federal...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - William Conwaya medical doctor who formerly ran a practice in Baldwin, New York, was sentenced today to a term of eight years’ imprisonment for conspiring to illegally distribute the highly-addictive narcotic oxycodone, to be followed by three years of supervised release. The sentence was pronounced by United...