United States Drug Enforcement Administration

COLUMBIA, S.C. - On Tuesday, September 23, 2014, U.S. District Judge Margaret B. Seymour sentenced Joenathan Shelly Chaplin, an attorney in Columbia, S.C. to three years of probation for making a false statement to a federal agent, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A federal indictment has charged six men with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. Attorney Tompkins is joined in making today’s announcement by John S. Comer, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Atlanta...

SAN DIEGO - Nine people are in custody following DEA’s takedown of Operation Shattered Dreams . Warrants served in San Diego, Spring Valley, Chula Vista, and El Cajon are the conclusion of a year-long undercover drug operation. The Drug Enforcement (DEA) served numerous search warrants from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Lance C. Tew, age 26, of Greer, Jessica R. Hollingsworth, age 24, of Taylors, and Mary Virginia Merritt, age 42, of Greer, were sentenced today in federal court in Greenville, for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone, a violation of Title...

(SAVANNAH, Ga.) - - Dr. Najam Azmat57, of Waycross, Georgia, was sentenced in the United States District Court on August 6, 2014 to serve 11 years and 1 month in prison. On January 17, 2014, a federal jury found Azmat guilty of numerous offenses related to his role in a...

ATLANTA - Woodrow Rudolph Dixon, Jr., and Cornelius Bernard Wilson each have been sentenced to federal prison for planning to rob a drug stash house while dressed as police officers. Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) Atlanta Field Division stated, “Drug dealing breeds...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - On Wednesday, July 30, 2014, U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. ordered Jesus Ibarra-Quen, 30, of Calif., to serve 30 months in prison for his role in a cocaine trafficking and money laundering conspiracy, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North...

(KNOXVILLE, Tenn - .) - A federal grand jury in Knoxville returned five separate indictments on July 16, 2014, against 59 individuals involved in a conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. Those indicted include: Randy N. Smith, 48, Caryville, Tenn.; Jeffrey S. Meadows, 34, LaFollette, Tenn.; Rebecca J. Burress, 31, Lake City...

SAN DIEGO - Jose Rodrigo Arechiga-Gamboa, also known as “Chino Antrax,” was formally extradited to the United States by the Netherlands today. Arechiga-Gamboa arrived at San Diego International airport about 2 p.m. under heavy security. He was flown in by the United States Marshals Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration...

ATLANTA - Jason Cole Votrobek and Roland Rafael Castellanos, owners of the “Atlanta Medical Group,” have been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison, respectively. Both Votrobek and Castellanos were convicted on March 26, 2014, after a month-long jury trial on federal drug and money laundering charges for owning and...