SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Nineteen individuals have been arrested and charged in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and conspiracy to import heroin from Colombia and Venezuela into Puerto Rico, announced U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez Vélez for the District of Puerto Rico...

BANGOR, Maine - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Matthew Tardiff, 27, formerly of Old Town, Mainewas sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Bangor to 4¾ years in prison and three years of...

MANHATTAN - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and James J. Hunt, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division announced that Alfonso Portillo, the former president of Guatemala, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to...

TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces that Juan Alberto Ortiz-Lopez, a/k/a “Chamale,” a/k/a “Juanito,” (43, San Marcos, Guatemala) has been extradited to the Middle District...

LAREDO, Texas - Carlos Contreras, 33, and his wife Ana Rosa Contreras, 31, have entered guilty pleas in relation to a massive drug trafficking and money laundering case involving members of the Texas Mexican Mafia prison gang, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and United...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Orlando Giovanni-Hernandez, 28, has been convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and possession with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal jury sitting...

URBANA - , Ill. - A Paxton, IL, man, Eddi Ramirez, 32, who led an extensive network of cocaine and heroin suppliers, couriers, and distributors, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. The sentence was announced by Jack Riley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Division of...

BALTIMORE - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles Jr. sentenced Karl McDonald, 30, of Baltimore, to 151 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine. Judge Quarles enhanced McDonald’s sentence upon finding that he is a...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Juan Figueroa Garcia was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick. Garcia pleaded guilty on Feb. 12, 2014...

BOISE, Idaho - Sadith Chavez-Perez, 23, of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty on March 20, 2014, in United States District Court to distribution of methamphetamine. Chavez-Perez was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise, Idaho, on February 11, 2014. According to the plea agreement, on March 27, 2013, Chavez-Perez...