FRESNO, Calif.) - Three marijuana cultivators were sentenced today in separate large-scale marijuana cultivation cases involving private lands in Stanislaus and Fresno Counties. Fresno/Alabama Drug Ring Member (1:12-cr-38 AWI) - Herman Graves, 47, of Fresno, was sentenced eight months in (four months in prison and four months home detention) for...

FRESNO, Calif. - Miguel Sanchez-(Sanchez), 46, of Mexico, was sentenced today to eight years in prison for conspiring to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine. According to court documents, Sanchez and a co-defendant maintained a stash house in Bakersfield from where law enforcement...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Anthony Keslinke was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday and charged with money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick, and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez. The Indictment alleges that between...

BOISE, Idaho - Gilberto Duran-Contreras, 51, a Mexican national, pleaded guilty on April 22, 2014, in federal court to unlawfully manufacturing more than 1,000 marijuana plants, and damage to government land. According to the plea agreement, on September 15, 2013, Duran-Contreras was arrested on Hwy 21 near Lowman, a few...

ORLANDO, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced today that Senior U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell sentenced Benjamin William (43, Orlando) to 18 months in federal...

(DENVER) - Hector Diaz, age 49, David Jeffrey Furtado, age 48, Luis Fernand Uribe, age 28, and Gerardo Uribe, age 33, were named in a just unsealed superseding indictment, returned by a federal grand jury in Denver on April 22, 2014, federal law enforcement agencies announced. The superseding indictment alleges...

ORLANDO, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced today that Senior U.S. District Judge John Antoon, II sentenced Jorge Luis Alomar-(43, Orlando) to 15 years in federal...

ORLANDO, Fla. - Today, U.S. District Judge John Antoon, II sentenced Damion Rashaad (36, Cocoa) to three years in federal prison for violating his supervised release. Carder was under supervision of the court as a result of a cocaine conviction in 2006. On March 11, 2014, Carder was found guilty...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - On April 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local law enforcement and the Drug Enforcement (DEA) will give the public its eighth opportunity in three years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. Bring...

APR 24 (MIAMI) - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Kathryn Keneally, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue...