CHICAGO - Fifteen defendants are facing federal or state narcotics charges for their alleged roles in supplying and distributing heroin and cocaine on Chicago’s South and West Sides. A lengthy investigation led by agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration and officers of the Chicago Police Department assigned to the Chicago...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - United States Attorney Bill Nettles, stated today that Marcus Dalton Hemingway and James Earl Spain, II, both of Conway, entered guilty pleas on drug conspiracy charges in federal court in Florence late yesterday afternoon. Hemingway and Spain were indicted earlier this year by a federal grand jury...

LUFKIN, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales along with Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division, announced today that five individuals are in custody following a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas. On July 14, 2015, a combined task...

ALBANY, N.Y. - Michael Elcox, 43, of Ghent, New York, was sentenced to 37 months in prison by United States District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian, James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division, and Shantelle P...

BOSTON - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz announced that ten individuals in three states were charged in federal court yesterday with conspiracy to distribute heroin, in connection with a Lawrence-based heroin operation. The...

EASTON, 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 Raymond J. Martin, 48, of Easton, was arrested today in connection with a federal steroid and prescription narcotic...

PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Ashley Gross, 26, - of Peaks Island, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Nancy Torresen to three years...

PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Paul Robinson - , 33, of Lewiston, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to 121...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On July 14, 2015, Desera Jade Allen, 27, and David Michael Stallard, 20, both of Kingsport, Tenn., were sentenced by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 151 months and 56 months in prison respectively for their roles in an extensive a-(alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone) distribution...

TAMPA, Fla. - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has sentenced Luciano (39) to nine years in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. He pleaded guilty to the charges on December 22, 2006, and subsequently fled the United States...