CHICAGO - Forty-two defendants are facing state or federal narcotics charges for their alleged roles in supplying and distributing heroin in the area of West Grenshaw Street and Independence Boulevard, in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the city’s west side. An investigation led by agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration...

FRESNO, Calif. - - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Raymond Slaton, 43, of Merced; Sidney Allen, 48, of Merced; Donnell Mays, 39, of Turlock; and Omar Lopez, 22, of Turlock, charging them with federal drug trafficking offenses. According to court documents, on May 20, 2015...

MIAMI - Today, United States Department of (DOJ) announce the unsealing of five indictments in U.S. federal courts in Brooklyn, New York and Miami, Florida charging 17 alleged leaders and associates of Colombia’s largest and most influential (banda criminal or criminal group), CLAN (formerly referred to as Los Urabeños). The...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Twenty people that were involved in a large scale drug trafficking organization in Central Ohio, were sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Joseph P. Reagan, Special Agent in Charge, of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA)...

INDIANAPOLIS - ―The Drug Enforcement (DEA) along with the Indiana State Police and Scott County Sheriff's Department executed enforcement actions from June 16 through June 20, 2015, which resulted in the arrest of Michael ELKINS, John MORGAN, Tyler TURNER and William THROWER; the seizure of 19 Opana pills, approximately 14...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Heather Alfonso, 42, of Middlebury, waived her right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Jamie Coleman, also known as “City,” 24, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker...

FRESNO, Calif. - - Joseph Nolan, 59, a Malibu businessman and Ventura County resident, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana cultivated at a warehouse that he owned...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., Western District of New York, announced today that Eric J. Humphrey, 36, of Amherst, NY, his father, John E. Humphrey, Jr., 55, of Buffalo, NY, and...

JACKSON, Miss. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Daniel Comeaux and Gregory K. Davis, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, announced the sentencing of four defendants tied to a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking organization. Cliff Williams, 37, of Meridian, Mississippi, was sentenced to 133 months...