DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Anchorage Couple Sentenced For Drug, Gun, And Money Laundering Charges

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Anchorage couple was sentenced on Friday, July 17, 2015, in U.S. District Court to serve 135 months and 72 months respectively for their involvement in drug trafficking, money laundering, and gun crimes. Daniel Martin Harris, 28, of Anchorage, Alaska, previously pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and...
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Gang Leader Sentenced To 50 Years For Prescription Drug Trafficking

SPOKANE, Wash. - Arvin Terrill Carmen, 39, of Los Angeles, California, and Spokane, Washington, was sentenced to 50 years in prison following a five-week jury trial. Carmen was found guilty of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to distribute oxycodone, and possession with intent to distribute oxycodone. In addition...
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Sunnyside Man Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Drug Trafficking And Being An Illegal Alien In Possession Of Ammunition

SPOKANE, Wash. - Omar Alarcon Fuentes, 37, of Sunnyside, Washington, was sentenced on July 2, 2015, for distributing 50 grams or more of pure methamphetamine, and being an illegal alien in possession of ammunition. In the methamphetamine case, Fuentes was sentenced to a ten year term of imprisonment and a...
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Anchorage Man Sentenced To 18 Years In Prison For Drug Death Of 14 Year Old Girl

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sean Michael Warner, 29, was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for one count of distribution of heroin on June 29, 2015. Warner previously pleaded guilty on September 2, 2014 to distributing heroin. At that hearing, Warner admitted to personally injecting a 14-year-old minor with heroin...
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Puyallup Man Sentenced To Two Years In Prison For Hash Oil Blast

SEATTLE - A Puyallup man responsible for making hash oil for an illegal marijuana edible operation was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 24 months in prison and three years’ supervised release. Seth M. Cleek, 22, was using highly flammable butane gas to make hash oil on...
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77-Year Sentence Imposed On Anchorage Man For Drug Trafficking, Kidnapping, And Using Firearms In Furtherance Of Those Crimes

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Phosavan Khamnivong a.k.a. “P.K.,” 34, of Anchorage, Alaska was sentenced today to 77 years’ imprisonment following his February 2015, convictions on drug trafficking conspiracy, two kidnapping charges, and two firearm charges. “Today, the violence, fear and intimidation utilized by this defendant stops,” said DEA Acting Special Agent...
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Fairbanks Drug Dealer Sentenced To More Than 10 Years In Prison

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Today, Etienne Q. Devoe, 42, of Fairbanks, Alaska, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 126 months in prison to be followed by a five year term of supervised release for conspiring to distribute cocaine and heroin, and conspiring to launder the proceeds from the sale of...
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Former Bellevue Resident Whose Hash Oil Extraction Caused Explosion, Fire & Death Sentenced To Nine Years In Prison

SEATTLE - The man who touched off a devastating Bellevue apartment fire with his illegal hash oil manufacturing was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to nine years in prison. David Richard Schultz II, 33, was using highly explosive butane gas to make hash oil in the Hampton...
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Three Oregon Men Sentenced In Meth Distribution

EUGENE, Ore. - Cesar Arnoldo Menjivar, 30, of Lane County, Oregon, was sentenced on Tuesday, June 2, 2015, in U.S. District Court to a 96-month prison term for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Following his release from prison, Menjivar will be on supervised release for four years. On June 3, 2015...
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Anchorage Woman Sentenced To Two Years Imprisonment For HIPPA Violations Involving A Violent Drug Trafficking Investigation

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Stacy Laulu, 33, of Anchorage, Alaska was sentenced to two years imprisonment in U.S. District Court on May 29, 2015, on her convictions for two felony violations of the Health Information Portability and Accountablity (HIPPA). The case represented the first felony HIPAA prosecution in Alaska, and one...