United States Drug Enforcement Administration

COLUMBIA, SC. - United States Attorney Bill N. Nettles and John S. Comer, Acting Special Agent in (SAC) of the DEA Atlanta Field Division, announced today that Earl Daniels, 31, of Allendale, faces a mandatory-minimum sentence of life in prison as a result of a federal jury’s verdict finding that...

COLUMBIA, SC. - United States Attorney Bill N. Nettles and John S. Comer, Acting Special Agent in (SAC) of the DEA Atlanta Field Division, announced today that Earl Daniels, 31, of Allendale, faces a mandatory-minimum sentence of life in prison as a result of a federal jury’s verdict finding that...

DENVER, CO. - Kevin R. Merrill, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Luis Velez, Chief, Pueblo Police Department, and Bill Thiebaut, District Attorney, Colorado’s Tenth Judicial District, announced today the successful completion of a major heroin investigation with the arrest of 24 defendants. There are an additional five...

DENVER, CO. - Two Western Colorado doctors, Sam Jahani, M.D., 49, of Cleveland, Texas, and Eric Peper, D.O., 53, of Summerland Key, Florida, were indicted by a federal grand jury on August 3, 2011 on charges related to health care fraud, money laundering and dispensing controlled substances in which four...

ATLANTA, GA. - Donald Bristol, 41, of Lilburn, Georgia, pleaded guilty today in federal district court on charges that while he was employed as a DeKalb County police officer, he helped others possess and hide a stolen vehicle, unlawfully accessed governmental information, and lied to federal agents. John S. Comer...

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...

DENVER, CO. - Louis Hampers, MD, of Denver, pled guilty this morning before U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn to 14 counts of obtaining a controlled substance, hydrocodone, by misrepresentation, fraud, deception or subterfuge. Hampers, who was present at today’s hearing, is on 24-hour home detention. Judge Blackburn is...

ATLANTA, GA. - Jason Cole Votrobek, 27, of Vero Beach Florida; Jesse Violante, 32, of Vero Beach, Florida; Roland Rafael Castellanos, 32, of Cartersville, Georgia; Tara Atkins, 33, of Cartersville, Georgia; and Dr. James Chapman, 61, of Macon, Georgia, were indicted and arrested on federal drug and money laundering charges...

ATLANTA, GA. - FLOYD B. SAWYER, 44, a former Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan (SCMPD) Officer, has been charged with drug trafficking conspiracy, extortion, possessing a firearm during a crime of violence, and lying to federal agents. SAWYER was arrested yesterday by federal authorities on a criminal complaint. SAWYER’s initial appearance in federal...

ATLANTA, GA. - Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Charlie Stephens, age 76, Jeff Sivell, age unknown, and Alvin Malone, age 32, all certified law enforcement officers working for the Sheriff’s Department in Talbot County, Georgia, were charged in individual indictments for...