United States Drug Enforcement Administration

Shawn A. Johnson, Special Agent in Charge of DEA’s Washington Division announced that today U.S. District Court Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Franklin Alma, age 29, of Silver Spring, Maryland to 151 months in prison followed by 4 years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute 500 grams...

Shawn A. Johnson, Special Agent in Charge of DEA’s Washington Division, announced today that U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Tat Kim Huynh, age 33, of Silver Spring, Maryland, to 188 months in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams...

FEB 16-- Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of DEA’s Washington Division, Shawn A. Johnson, announced the sentencing of Muzaffar Khan Afridi, age 59, to life in prison and his son, Alamdar Khan Afridi, age 29, to 30 years in prison on charges relating to their family’s international heroin trafficking organization...

FEB 2-- SAC Shawn A. Johnson of DEA’s Washington Division announced that an indictment was returned by a federal grand jury charging a conspiracy to distribute cocaine and cocaine base (crack). The indictment was returned on January 23, 2006. As unsealed, the one-count indictment charges the following individuals, who were...

FEB 2 -- A DEA asset seizure made in March 2003 recently was distributed to the Virginia law enforcement agencies that participated in the large-scale marijuana investigation - dubbed Operation Weed B Truckin. Paul McNulty, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, presented the asset sharing checks to...

JAN 19 -- Shawn A. Johnson, Special Agent in Charge of DEA’s Washington Division announced today that William Henry Muldrow, age 61, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone and more than five grams of crack cocaine in connection...

Special Agent in Charge of DEA’s Washington Division, Shawn A. Johnson, announced that Muzaffar Khan Afridi, age 70, and his son Alamdar Khan Afridi, age 29, of Pakistan, were convicted after a four-week trial on 13 counts relating to their family’s international heroin trafficking organization. Each defendant was convicted of...

Shawn A. Johnson, Special Agent in Charge of DEA’s Washington Division, announced today that Steven Craig Frost, age 35, Toni Lea Frost, age 31, and Gary Michael Shuttleworth, age 36, all of Washington County, Virginia, were sentenced to nearly two decades in prison for their role in manufacturing methamphetamine. Each...

OCT 20 -- Special Agent in Charge of DEA’s Washington Division, Shawn A. Johnson, announced the sentencing of Wyatt Wood, 42, of Washington, DC, by United States District Court Judge Thomas F. Hogan to 188 months imprisonment following his earlier guilty plea to federal drug trafficking charges. On April 19...

OCT 7 --Special Agent in Charge of DEA’s Washington Division Shawn A. Johnson announced the return of two indictments targeting Harrisonburg area methamphetamine and cocaine dealers in the Western District of Virginia. Anthony Augusta Smith, age 31, and Tony Lorenzo Smith, age 40, are charged with conspiracy to distribute 50...