MINNEAPOLIS, MN. - United States District Court Judge Paul A. Magnuson sentenced Wesley Noah Banks, 50, a resident of Savage, to 151 months in federal prison on July 20, 2011. Banks was sentenced after his March 24, 2011, guilty plea of one count of illegal possession of a machine gun...

LOS ANGELES, CA - A medical doctor who maintained clinics in Downey and the Westlake District pleaded guilty this afternoon to federal narcotics charges for distributing powerful and addictive painkillers to “patients” he did not examine and who simply paid cash for prescriptions. Nazar Al Bussam, 72, of Newport Coast...

ST. GEORGE, UT. - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced today that on July 16, 2011, the DEA, along with other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, seized 13,806 marijuana plants found growing in the mountains outside of Veyo, Utah, and arrested 38 defendants who were in the process of...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on July 19, 2011, Laqueenya Bodie, a 34- year old Pontoon Beach, Illinois woman pled guilty in Federal District Court in East St. Louis to one count of Conspiracy to...

BENTON, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that three men and one woman were sentenced on July 19, 2011 in United States District Court in Benton, Illinois. All three previously pled guilty on April 7, 2011 to a one count...

MADISON, WI. - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Dwayne Johnson, 36, previously of Madison, was sentenced on July 19, 2011, by U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb to 15 years and 8 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute heroin...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on July 15, 2011, Raymond Woods, a 47 year-old Cahokia, Illinois man, pled guilty to one count of possessing in excess of five grams of crack cocaine. Sentencing is set...

SEATTLE, WASH - Andres Rene Rodriguez, 25, of Shoreline, Washington, was sentenced on July 15, 2011 in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 40 months in prison and three years of supervised release for nine counts related to drug trafficking and gun possession. Rodriguez was convicted March 3, 2011. The...

NEW HAVEN, CT. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Domenico Sandalo, also known as “Dominick,” 37, of Mohackemo Drive, Norwalk, was sentenced today by United States...

BOSTON, MA. - A Georgia man was sentenced today in federal court for conspiring to distribute eight pounds of pure methamphetamine. Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration - Boston Field Division, United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz and Chief Gary Gemme of the Worcester...