DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Woodbridge Man Pleads Guilty to Distributing Narcotics to 14-Year-Old

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A Woodbridge man pleaded guilty yesterday to distributing a Schedule II controlled substance to a person under age twenty-one. According to court documents, in April of 2022, Latae'veion Woods, 21, sold pills purporting to be Percocet to a 14-year-old, who died of a fentanyl overdose approximately five...
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Meth, Firearm Result in 10 Years of Prison

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A Jefferson City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm and methamphetamine to distribute. Clint Alexander Doll, 35, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark to 10 years in federal prison without parole. On July 28, 2022, Doll pleaded...
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Bus Rider from Colorado Makes Prison Stop for Heroin Trafficking

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – An Aurora, Colo., man was sentenced in federal court today for heroin trafficking and illegally possessing a firearm while traveling through Kansas City, Mo., on a bus bound for Virginia. Izeall T. Collins, 44, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Greg Kays to 19 years in...
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St. Louis Man Pleads Guilty to Heroin Trafficking in Springfield

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A St. Louis man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to distribute kilogram-quantities of heroin in the Springfield, Mo., area. Alphonso L. Battle, 55, pleaded guilty before U.S. Chief Magistrate Judge David P. Rush to participating in a conspiracy to distribute...
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Matriarch of Violent Multimillion-Dollar Honduran Cocaine Trafficking Organization Pleads Guilty

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A Honduran woman pleaded guilty to participating in a large-scale conspiracy to traffic cocaine for importation into the United States. According to court documents, from 2006 until 2015, Erlinda Ramos-Bobadilla, aka Herlinda Bobadilla or Chinda, 62, served as a leader in the Montes-Bobadilla drug-trafficking organization, or “Los...
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Owner of Rockstar Burgers Pleads Guilty to Making Restaurant Available to Drug Traffickers in $1.7 Million Conspiracy

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The owner of the Rockstar Burgers restaurant in Kansas City, Mo., has pleaded guilty in federal court to allowing his former restaurant building to be used in a drug trafficking conspiracy that is alleged to have distributed more than 150 kilograms of methamphetamine and more than...
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Final Defendant in St. Louis Fentanyl Drug Ring Sentenced to 20 Years

ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark on Thursday sentenced a St. Louis County, Missouri, man involved in a fentanyl distribution ring to 20 years in prison. Anthony “Peta Man” Caldwell, 27, was the final defendant to be sentenced out of 11 people who distributed multiple kilograms of...
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Harford County Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Federal Prison for His Participation in a Drug Distribution Conspiracy

Baltimore, Maryland – U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Che Jaron Durbin, age 44, of Aberdeen, Maryland, on December 19, 2022, to 20 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine...
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Kansas Man Indicted on Cocaine and Firearms Charges

WICHITA, Kan. – A federal grand jury in Wichita returned an indictment charging a Kansas man with crimes related to drug trafficking and firearms. According to court documents, Clinton Bruner, 49, of Wichita was indicted on one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine, one count of possession with...
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Man Sentenced to 18+ Years in Prison for Distributing Fatal Dose of Fentanyl to St. Peters Woman

ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Wednesday sentenced a man who sold the fentanyl that killed a St. Peters, Missouri, woman in 2020 to 18 years and four months in prison. Nathan Matson, of O’Fallon, Missouri, met with the victim in the driveway of her home...