MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Leonard Marchetta, a physician’s assistant, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to conspiring to distribute a massive quantity of oxycodone out of a Staten Island-based medical clinic he oversaw. During a...

TAMPA, Fla. - A.D. Wright, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announce the unsealing of an indictment charging (Dr.) Edward Neil Feldman, M.D. (75, Tampa) and his wife, Kim Xuan (65...

MADISON, Wis. - ―A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictment today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. Paul Stewart, 32, Madison, Wis., is charged...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles-area doctor who was convicted last summer of narcotics trafficking for illegally distributing the powerful painkiller best known by the brand names Vicodin and Norco was sentenced today to 63 months in federal prison. Dr. Andrew Sun, 79, of La Mirada, was sentenced January 5...

INDIANAPOLIS - ―The Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the Delaware County Prosecutor’s Office announced today felony charges against Dr. William Hedrick, the owner of the Indiana Pain Center in Muncie who also operated several affiliated offices in northeast Indiana, and Gay Gundersen-Watson, a nurse practitioner employed by Dr. Hedrick. The charges...

ATLANTA - Three drug traffickers have been sentenced to federal prison for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine stemming from their roles in the delivery of liquid methamphetamine to residences in Austell, Ga., and Mableton, Ga. “Methamphetamine continues to ravage many communities in our nation,” said John...

( - PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Providence Police Chief Colonel Hugh T. Clements, Jr announced Pedro Mercado, 32, of Providence, was sentenced today to 36 months in federal...

GREENBELT, Md. - Anthony Torrell Tatum, age 36, of Arlington, Virginia, pleaded guilty late yesterday to drug and money laundering conspiracies, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. As part of his guilty plea, Tatum consented to the entry of a $108 million forfeiture order, including luxury...

SAN FRANCISCO - Paul D. Woodward was arraigned yesterday for allegedly operating a scheme to defraud Medicare and allegedly distributing controlled substances. A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted Paul D. Woodward and Karen Kramer on December 4, 2014. The indictment remained under seal until December 11, 2014, when...

PHOENIX - On January 13, 2015 a special TV report on the growing perils of heroin and opioid use in Arizona will broadcast simultaneously and commercial-free on 32 TV Stations in Phoenix, Tucson and Yuma and most of the state’s radio stations. The air time will be 6:30 p.m. (MST)...