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...

HONOLULU - - On June 25 and 26, 2013, pursuant to a federal indictment returned by a grand jury on June 20, 2013, law enforcement officers arrested Oahu residents John (33), Makusi (46), Siaosi (32), Jake Del Mundo-(31), Michael (28), Michael (33), and Keschan (29). Also indicted were Oahu residents...

HONOLULU - - Richard Ramon Ramirez, age 53, a resident of Gardena, California, was sentenced on June 24, 2013, by United States District Chief Judge Susan Oki Mollway to 168 months in prison and five years of supervised release following imprisonment for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to...

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...

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...

LOS ANGELES - - A West Hollywood doctor surrendered to federal authorities this morning after being indicted last Friday on federal drug trafficking charges that allege he wrote more than 1,200 prescriptions for powerful painkillers after a federal order revoked his authority to prescribe those drugs. James William Eisenberg, 72...