FORT SMITH, Ark. - A major drug trafficker was sentenced to serve 12 ½ years in federal prison today, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Stephen G. Azzam and Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas. Jose Mendez-Alvarado, 39, of Fort Smith, was sentenced to 150 months in...

WASHINGTON - This week the heads of the national drug-control agencies for the United States and the People’s Republic of China, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg and Director (DG) Hu Minglang from the Narcotics Control (NCB) of the Ministry of Public Security, met at DEA Headquarters in Arlington...

EL PASO - A Barrio (BA) gang associate was sentenced today to 240 months in prison for his participation in a racketeering conspiracy and drug trafficking offenses. Luis Humberto Hernandez Celis, aka Pac, 32, of El Paso, was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone of the Western District of...

SEP 29 - 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 Eric Lonergan, 23, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant...

UTICA, N.Y. - -Ryan Canfield, 40, of New Haven, Connecticut, was sentenced today to serve 12 years in prison, to be followed by six years of post-imprisonment supervised release, for conspiring to distribute the controlled substance methylone. The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Special Agent...

NEW YORK - - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division announced that Moshe Mirilashvili, a Board-certified, state-licensed doctor, was sentenced today to 160 months in prison for...

CINCINNATI - John Wade, 46, of Cincinnati has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for selling a mixture of heroin and fentanyl that led to the overdose death of a Clermont County man in 2015. Benjamin C. Glassman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Timothy...

NEW YORK - - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Anthony Scott, a/k/a “Tyson,” pleaded guilty today to involvement in a racketeering conspiracy in connection with his membership in the “Young Gunnaz” (“YGz”), a violent street gang that operated in and...

SEP 27 - 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 Shannon Bragdon, 32, of Portland, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to attempting to acquire oxycodone by deception and...

ALBANY, N.Y. - - Salvatore Commisso, 33, of Albany, New York, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute the controlled substance oxycodone. The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, New York Division, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA). Commisso faces up...