DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Repeat offender sentenced to 8+ years in prison for dealing drugs in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood

SEATTLE – A repeat offender, who was arrested in Pioneer Square armed with a concealed pistol with hollow point bullets, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 101 months in prison and five years of supervised release. Jonathan Rushing, 40, was convicted in October 2019 following a...
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Bend man sentened to federal prison after hash oil explosion

PORTLAND, Ore .—David Carl Paulsen, 33, of Bend, Oregon, was sentenced on Dec.10, 2019, to 12 months and one day in federal prison and two years’ supervised release for illegally manufacturing and possessing marijuana during a March 2018 butane honey oil explosion in Bend. According to court documents, on March...
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Cottage Grove man sentenced to federal prison for hash oil explosion

PORTLAND, Ore.—Eric L. Scully, of Cottage Grove, Oregon, was sentenced on June 20th, 2019, to 78 months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release for endangering human life and illegally possessing and manufacturing marijuana during a November 2017 butane honey oil (BHO) explosion in Cottage Grove. Scully was also...