United States Drug Enforcement Administration

DETROIT - The State of Michigan showed their support and dedication in fighting the prescription pill epidemic from the Fall 2010 through September 2014 by disposing of over 79,000 pounds of unwanted and unused prescription drugs in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) National Prescription Drug Take-Back Initiative. In a press...

DETROIT - The state of Ohio showed their support and dedication in fighting the prescription pill epidemic from Fall 2010 through September 2014 by disposing of over 185,000 pounds of unwanted and unused prescription drugs in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) National Prescription Drug Take-Back Initiative. In a press conference...

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...

LONDON, Ky. - The leader of a large-scale drug trafficking organization, which brought prescription drugs from Mexico to eastern Kentucky and northern Tennessee for nearly 15 years, has been sentenced to 180 months in federal prison. On July 2nd, 2015, U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove sentenced 60 year-old...

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...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Evelyn Jean Vickers, 39, of Kingsport, Tenn., was sentenced on June 30, 2015, by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, U.S. District Court Judge, to a federal prison term of 110 months for her role in an extensive a-(alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone) distribution conspiracy centered in and around the Sullivan County...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Twenty people that were involved in a large scale drug trafficking organization in Central Ohio, were sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Joseph P. Reagan, Special Agent in Charge, of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA)...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Acting United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr., announced today that a physician charged with prescribing pain medications that resulted in the deaths of five patients, unlawful distribution or dispensing of controlled substances and health care fraud, now faces the additional charges of conspiracy, money laundering and...