United States Drug Enforcement Administration

SEATTLE - After collecting and destroying 5.5 million pounds-2,762 tons-of unused prescription drugs in the past five years, the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) is continuing its efforts to take back unused, unwanted and expired prescription medications. The DEA invites the public to bring their potentially dangerous, unwanted medicines to one...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Clarence Anthony Hatton, a/k/a “C-Money” of Las Vegas was sentenced on Friday, March 25, 2016, to serve 16 years in prison for supplying large quantities of cocaine to Alaska and Michigan over the past five years; he was also fined $40,000, and required to forfeit expensive vehicles...

BOISE, Idaho - Early today a federal grand jury returned an indictment against two Soldotna men, charging them with trafficking in synthetic cannabinoids, informally known as “spice.” The two men are also charged with firearms offenses, in connection with Spice trafficking. Philip Drake Kneeland, 33, of Soldotna, Alaska, allegedly doing...

EUGENE, Ore. - Nikita Rose Garcia, 28, a former resident of Douglas County, Oregon, was sentenced on March 22, 2016, to five years in prison and four years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken for aiding in the distribution of more than 50 grams of methamphetamine. Garcia...

BOISE, Idaho - Diego Alejandro Alcantar-Armenta, 29, of Elko, Nevada, was sentenced on March 21, 2016, in United States District Court to 42 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Alcantar-Armenta to forfeit $8,200 in drug proceeds. He pleaded guilty...

BOISE, Idaho - Michael Kulikoff, 30, and Kenneth Miller, 57, both of California City, California, pleaded guilty on March 8, 2016, to conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and hydromorphone. Co-defendants Diane Miller, 41, and Crystal Clark 43, also of California City, California, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and...

BOISE, Idaho - Jose Martin Diaz-Lara, 33, of Walla Walla, Washington, pleaded guilty on March 9, 2016, to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and conspiracy to manufacture a controlled substance, more than 1,000 marijuana plants, with the intent to distribute. Diaz-Lara was charged by...

MEDFORD, Ore. - Jonathan Robert Quaccia, 35, originally of Ashland, Oregon, was sentenced on February 17, 2016, to two years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit money laundering. U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken also ordered the defendant to serve three years of supervised release upon his release from prison...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On February 17, 2016, a Federal Grand Jury in the District of Alaska returned an indictment charging a Palmer man with multiple drug felonies, including one count of distributing heroin that led to the death of a young man who used the heroin. “Nationwide, a drug overdose...

BOISE, Idaho - Christopher “Farley” Woods, 57, of San Clemente, California, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Woods was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise on August 11, 2015. According to the plea agreement, Woods admitted that between 2008, and June 9, 2015, he conspired to...