United States Drug Enforcement Administration

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Sixteen individuals are facing drug trafficking and money laundering charges as the result of a multi-agency investigation led by DEA and HSI that targeted cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine traffickers and money launderers operating in southern New Mexico, west Texas and as far east as Tennessee and...

ATLANTA - Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Joseph Manuel Hunter, a U.S. citizen and former member of the U.S. Army, and two co-defendants, Adam Samia and Carl David Stillwell, both U.S. citizens, were convicted by a federal jury...

Atlanta - Darrick Lawrence, a previously convicted felon, has been sentenced to 16 years, six months in prison for trafficking cocaine. Lawrence also faces charges in Virginia for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. A search of Lawrence’s Decatur, Georgia home resulted in the recovery of cocaine, two high-powered rifles, and...

EL PASO, Texas - A local physician faces federal drug trafficking charges, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge Steve A. Borak, El Paso Division. A 12-count federal grand jury indictment returned last week charges 66-year-old Dr. Thomas Glenn Easter, II...

Atlanta - Ten members of an alleged methamphetamine trafficking operation that sought to distribute more than $1 million worth of drugs have been indicted in a 13-count superseding indictment on charges of violations of federal drug, firearm, and immigration laws. Seven defendants were arraigned today in federal court. “Methamphetamine continues...

GAINESVILLE, Ga - John Michael Gowder, Dr. David Gowder, and Dr. James Heaton, have been indicted as part of Operation SCOPE on federal charges for illegally prescribing and obtaining thousands of doses of prescription pain medications outside the usual course of professional medical practice and for no legitimate medical purpose...

Atlanta) - Donquell Weddington has been arraigned on federal charges of distributing heroin to an individual which resulted in serious injury and death, as well as three additional counts of distributing heroin and cocaine in 2017 and 2018. This case was presented as part of Operation SCOPE. Weddington was indicted...

CHARLOTTE, N.C - U.S. Attorney R. Andrew Murray announced today that Montorio Darell Allison, 38, of Concord, N.C. was sentenced to 132 months in prison on drug trafficking charges. U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. also ordered Allison to serve 10 years under court supervision after he is released...

Atlanta - Dr. Joseph L. Burton, a former county medical examiner and forensic pathologist, has been indicted along with seven other individuals on charges of illegal distribution of opioid painkillers and other drugs as part of Operation (Strategically Combatting Opioids through Prosecution and Enforcement). Multiple individuals have also been arrested...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Leon Conaway, 56, of Carlsbad, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to charges arising out of the sale and offering for sale of drug paraphernalia. Conaway’s plea agreement recommends a sentence of three years of probation. Conaway, the owner and operator...