United States Drug Enforcement Administration

SUMTER, S.C. - Fourteen people have been arrested and five others are being sought after a year-long heroin investigation. The joint investigation between the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Sumter County Sheriff's Office, was initiated by city investigators between April and May 2013 after receiving a growing number of...

ATLANTA - Adrian Banks has been arraigned on federal charges relating to the manufacture of PCP which led to a dangerous house fire when the clandestine laboratory exploded. Coleman Warnock, a second defendant named in the indictment, is being sought by law enforcement. Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in...

MAR (ATLANTA) - Jason Cole Votrobek and Roland Rafael Castellanos have been convicted after a month-long jury trial on federal drug and money laundering charges for owning and operating a “pill mill” pain clinic which served as a front for the mass distribution of addictive pain killers. Votrobek had previously...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Jose Chavez and Ely Ramirez-Sanchez were arrested on Friday, March 7, 2014 in Buncombe County and face drug trafficking charges in connection with the seizure of approximately 1,400 pounds of marijuana, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. A criminal complaint...

COLUMBUS, Ga. - U. S. Attorney Michael J. Moore announced today that Celeste Smith, 38, of Statham, Georgia, as well as Jessica Wise, 28, Antwan Byrd, 30, and Jerry Cooper, 64, of Athens, Georgia, were charged, on March 12, 2014, in United States District Court in Macon, in multiple-count indictments...

ROME, Ga. - Gerald Young and Rodney Strachan, two Florida men who supplied large amounts of the prescription narcotic Oxycodone to pill distributors in northwest Georgia, have been sentenced to prison. Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Atlanta Field Division commented on the case, "One...

ATLANTA - Jerome Bushay has been sentenced to prison for trafficking more than 185,000 pills of (MDMA), methamphetamine, (which is a drug similar to ecstasy), and ketamine. Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Atlanta Field Division stated, "Ecstasy is anything but what its name implies...

ATLANTA - Dwayne Penn, formerly a police officer with the Clayton County Police Department assigned to the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force, was sentenced today to ten years of prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine. Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Atlanta Field Division...

ATLANTA - Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in (SAC) of the Atlanta Field (AFD) of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), announced today that the DEA AFD is launching an anonymous statewide prescription drug texting tip line available to the public. SAC Sommers was joined by John Horn, First Assistant United...

SAVANNAH, Ga. - - Dr. Najam Azmat - , 57, of Waycross, Georgia, was found guilty by a federal jury last week of all charges relating to his role the running of East Health Center, a pill-mill clinic that operated in Garden City in 2011. United States District Court Judge...