CHEYENNE, Wyo. – On July 17, 2019, District of Wyoming Chief Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl sentenced Lisa Marie Brown, 50, of Rio Linda, Calif., to seventy-eight months in federal prison for distribution of methamphetamine. Brown pleaded guilty to one count of distribution of methamphetamine on May 8...

NEW YORK – Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division, Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill, New York State Police Superintendent Keith M. Corlett and Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark...

FLORENCE, S.C. – United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Leroy Anthony Griffin, 31, of Myrtle Beach, S.C., was sentenced to over nine years in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute Oxycodone. Evidence presented to the court showed that...

CINCINNATI – A federal grand jury has charged a pharmaceutical distributor, two of its former officials and two pharmacists with conspiring to distribute controlled substances in an indictment returned here yesterday. Four individuals have been charged, including Miami-Luken’s former president and compliance officer and two West Virginia pharmacists. Those charged...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan today announced that Carlos Torres Perez, 48, of Rochester, New York, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa to possessing with intent to distribute one kilogram or more...

MADISON, Wis. – United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin Scott C. Blader announced that Thomas Strick, 60, of Wausau, Wis., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Madison to five counts of obtaining fentanyl by use of misrepresentation and fraud. Strick faces a maximum penalty of...

CINCINNATI – A federal grand jury has charged a pharmaceutical distributor, two of its former officials and two pharmacists with conspiring to distribute controlled substances in an indictment returned here yesterday. Four individuals have been charged, including Miami-Luken’s former president and compliance officer and two West Virginia pharmacists. Those charged...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Marcus Sales, 29, of Syracuse, N.Y., pled guilty yesterday to a federal cocaine distribution conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and FBI Albany Field Office Special Agent in Charge James N. Hendricks. As part of...

WASHINGTON – Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera, known by various aliases, including “El Chapo” and “El Rapido,” was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Brian M. Cogan to a life term of imprisonment plus 30 years to run consecutive to the life sentence for being a principal leader of a continuing...

ORLANDO, Fla. - The Florida Discount Drugs, Inc., which operates as Taylor’s Pharmacy, has agreed to pay the United States $107,500 to resolve allegations that it violated the Controlled Substances Act by improperly distributing schedule III and IV drugs, and committing multiple recordkeeping violations. The settlement relates to a Drug...