United States Drug Enforcement Administration

BENTON, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on January 26, 2011, BRANDIE WENZEL , age 39, of 2220 Grand Avenue, Eldorado, Illinois, plead guilty in United States District Court at Benton, IL, to a one count indictment charging her with...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on January 27, 2011 PAUL W. GOSSRAU - and CHRISTOPHER D. POLLARD - have been sentenced to federal prison terms for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine. GOSSRAU - , age 45 of...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on January 26, 2011, BRYANT - MAYBELL - , a/k/a “B,” age 25, of Carbondale, Illinois, was convicted by a jury in East St. Louis, Illinois. MAYBELL - was convicted of...

ANCHORAGE, AK - Acting Special Agent in Charge, Mark Thomas announced that six residents of Sacramento, California, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage on charges of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute oxycodone in Alaska. The individuals were indicted in four separate...

EUGENE, ORE - .- Noel Nathaniel Yaun, 34, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced on January 26, 2011, to 37 months in prison for structuring currency transactions. Yaun pled guilty on November 10, 2010, to structuring currency transactions to avoid reporting requirements. He resided in Columbia, South Carolina, when he...

ST. LOUIS, IL. - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the indictment of 11 defendants, all citizens of the Dominican Republic, in a criminal conspiracy involving wire fraud. "These indictments reflect the commitment of the DEA and our federal law enforcement partners in dismantling and destroying these types of unprincipled...

BOISE, IDAHO - Nabor Martinez-Herrera, 31, a Mexican national, is the 13th of 14 co-defendants to plead guilty to a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Idaho. Sentencing is scheduled for May 4, 2011, before Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill in Boise. The charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence...

SEATTLE, WASH - Jacob Harley Shook, 30, of Seattle, Washington was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 15 years in prison and five years of supervised release for two counts of pharmacy robbery, one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, and one count...

BOISE - - Leonardo Villasenor-Cesar, 23, was sentenced on January 20th, 2011 to fifteen years in federal prison in connection with a marijuana grow located on U.S. Forest Service public lands. Villasenor-Cesar pled guilty last November to drug manufacturing and firearms possession charges. Villasenor-Cesar is a native of Michoacan, Mexico...

ANCHORAGE, AK. - - Acting Special Agent in Charge, Mark Thomas announced that on January 19, 2011, Naron Celestine, a.k.a. “Cole”, 40, a resident of Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced to 188 months in prison for his participation in a conspiracy to distribute five kilograms of cocaine. According to information presented...