United States Drug Enforcement Administration

MACON, Ga. - Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Bertin Rivera, age 43, of Lumber City, Georgia, entered a plea of guilty today to conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute 382 kilograms of cocaine. The plea was entered in the...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - -Three separate criminal indictments and a criminal complaint charging 30 men and women with conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute synthetic drugs and related charges have been unsealed in U.S. District Court, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of...

JUNE 27, (ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) - During a press conference this afternoon, federal, state and local officials announced the results of the multi-agency enforcement operation in New Mexico which was part of yesterday’s DEA-led enforcement operations in 35 states targeting the upper echelon of dangerous designer synthetic drug trafficking organizations that...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. - - A criminal indictment charging seven defendants with drug trafficking conspiracy and related charges was unsealed today in U.S. District court, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. The federal indictment was returned by a grand jury sitting in Asheville on...

ALPINE, Texas - Two men face federal drug trafficking charges related to the discovery of more than 480 pounds of marijuana on a Van Horn Independent School (ISD) school bus last year announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and DEA-El Paso Division Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit. A...

JUNE 14, (ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) - Seven individuals were arrested this morning on federal narcotics trafficking charges as a result of a multi-agency investigation targeting heroin traffickers operating in the Northeast Height of Albuquerque, N.M., announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the...

ATLANTA - - Gabriel Jimenez Antunez, Pablo Saucedo Aparicio, Martin Ascencio, and Javier Munoz Ruiz have been indicted on federal drug and money laundering charges for their roles in the delivery of liquid methamphetamine to a residence in Austell, Ga. “Methamphetamine continues to ravage many communities in our nation,” said...

BRYSON CITY, N.C. - - Nineteen members of a methamphetamine trafficking ring have been charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Thirteen of those charged were arrested on Wednesday, May 29, 2013; during an early morning round-up conducted by federal, state and local law enforcement, announced Anne...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - - A single count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Nashville, Tennessee last week was unsealed today, charging 24 defendants with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and distributing diverted prescription pills, announced David Rivera, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee...

(BRUNSWICK, Ga.) - - Stanley Smith, 61, of Douglas, Georgia, pled guilty yesterday before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood for distributing drugs to his customers without a legitimate medical purpose. According to evidence presented during his guilty plea hearing, Smith owned and operated Malcolm’s Drug Store located...