United States Drug Enforcement Administration

SEATTLE - DEA Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg today announced that the 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time. As with the previous nine Take-Back events, sites will be set up throughout communities nationwide so local residents can return their unwanted, unneeded...

SEATTLE - Two men who invited a third man to use their Bellevue, Washington apartment for the illegal manufacturing of hash oil were sentenced to prison on July 20, 2015, in U.S. District Court in Seattle. Jesse D. Kaplan, 32, of Redmond, Washington and Daniel James Strycharske, 29, of Kirkland...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Anchorage couple was sentenced on Friday, July 17, 2015, in U.S. District Court to serve 135 months and 72 months respectively for their involvement in drug trafficking, money laundering, and gun crimes. Daniel Martin Harris, 28, of Anchorage, Alaska, previously pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - United States Attorney Bill Nettles, stated today that Marcus Dalton Hemingway and James Earl Spain, II, both of Conway, entered guilty pleas on drug conspiracy charges in federal court in Florence late yesterday afternoon. Hemingway and Spain were indicted earlier this year by a federal grand jury...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On July 14, 2015, Desera Jade Allen, 27, and David Michael Stallard, 20, both of Kingsport, Tenn., were sentenced by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 151 months and 56 months in prison respectively for their roles in an extensive a-(alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone) distribution...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Arvin Terrill Carmen, 39, of Los Angeles, California, and Spokane, Washington, was sentenced to 50 years in prison following a five-week jury trial. Carmen was found guilty of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to distribute oxycodone, and possession with intent to distribute oxycodone. In addition...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Omar Alarcon Fuentes, 37, of Sunnyside, Washington, was sentenced on July 2, 2015, for distributing 50 grams or more of pure methamphetamine, and being an illegal alien in possession of ammunition. In the methamphetamine case, Fuentes was sentenced to a ten year term of imprisonment and a...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sean Michael Warner, 29, was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for one count of distribution of heroin on June 29, 2015. Warner previously pleaded guilty on September 2, 2014 to distributing heroin. At that hearing, Warner admitted to personally injecting a 14-year-old minor with heroin...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Joel Perrin Robinson has been sentenced to eight years in prison for shooting a DEA special agent serving a search warrant at Robinson's house. Agents had obtained the warrant to search his home for chemicals used to manufacture PCP. “This investigation is a reminder of the dangers...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Michael Ray Mangum, 43, of Kingsport, Tenn., was sentenced on July 2, 2015, by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 120 months in federal prison for his role in an extensive a-(alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone) distribution conspiracy centered in and around the Sullivan County area...