FT. WORTH, Texas - Seven defendants, including members and associates of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas prison gang were sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge John McBryde. U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas made today’s announcement. In September 2016 they were convicted following a four-day...

FEB 10 - PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Scott Slagel, 41, of Westerly, Rhode Island was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell, Jr., to three years’ probation for operating a butane hash oil lab in his Westerly residence. Slagel pleaded guilty on May 13, 2016, to endangering human life...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - David Beckford was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to manufacture counterfeit Xanax pills, for engaging in international money laundering, and for his use and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking and in violation of...

FRESNO, Calif. - Kaiser Foundation Health System Inc. has paid $850,000 to settle allegations that a Kaiser Permanente pharmacy in Modesto violated the Controlled Substances (CSA) by improperly filling defective prescriptions and by failing to maintain accurate records, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent-in-Charge John...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Leshawn Lawson was sentenced to 214 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent-in-Charge John J. Martin. The sentence was handed down yesterday by the Honorable Phyllis J. Hamilton, United States...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - - A three-count indictment was unsealed today in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging Richard Jacobellis, 23, from Ridge, N.Y., with distributing heroin that caused the death of 20-year-old Nicholas Weber, and conspiring with others to distribute heroin. Jacobellis was arrested...

NEW YORK - - A multi-agency operation this morning resulted in the arrest and indictment of 13 members of a narcotics trafficking group charged with smuggling large amounts of narcotics from Puerto Rico through the U.S. Mail for distribution in New York City. James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Today, a federal indictment was unsealed charging three Veterans (VA) employees with conspiring to steal prescription medications, including opioids, from the VA John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital in Little Rock, and conspiring to distribute those drugs. The superseding indictment, returned by a federal grand jury...

FORT SMITH, Ark. - Kenneth Goff, 45, of Kansas City, Missouri, was sentenced today to 160 months in federal prison on one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine. The sentencing decision was jointly by Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Matthew Barden and Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Two San Antonio residents have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions of smuggling 59 kilograms of cocaine, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Darin Josep Fox, 24, and Jacob Escalante, 25, pleaded...