United States Drug Enforcement Administration

GREENBELT, MD. - On September 1, 2011, Stanley Needleman, age 68, of Pikesville, Maryland, pled guilty to tax evasion and structuring financial transactions to avoid reporting large cash receipts and deposits. The guilty plea was announced by Special Agent in Charge Ava Cooper-Davis of the Drug Enforcement Administration Washington Field...

GREENBELT, MD. - U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams, Jr. sentenced Wilson Lee Garrett, age 37, of Waldorf, Maryland, who was a legal assistant at the Department of Justice when he was arrested in 2009, to serve 248 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to...

BALTIMORE, MD. - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced, Eric Brown, aka “E” and “EB,” age 42, of Baltimore, late yesterday to 12 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for a conspiracy to conduct and participate in the activities of the Black Guerilla (BGF)...

BALTIMORE, MD. - Special Agent in Charge Ava Cooper-Davis of the Drug Enforcement Administration, United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein, Baltimore City State’s Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein; and Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III announced the sentencing of Umar Burley to 15 years in...

NEWPORT NEWS, VA. - Thirty-five individuals have been indicted as part of an ongoing investigation into major heroin trafficking rings operating throughout the Virginia Peninsula. To date, 72 federal defendants and more than 100 related state defendants have been charged as part of this investigation. Ava Cooper-Davis, Special Agent in...

ALEXANDRIA, VA. - The leader and members of an international heroin trafficking ring have been charged with using couriers to smuggle heroin from Ghana into the United States, a sign of the growth of West Africa as a major hub for international drug trafficking. Today’s charges were made public after...

SAN JUAN, P.R. - A federal grand jury indicted 114 individuals on June 27 as a result of an investigation lead by the Drug Enforcement (DEA), with the collaboration of Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Homeland Security (ICE), Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Puerto Rico Police (PRPD), United States...

ST. THOMAS, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS - The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’(ICE) Office Homeland Security (HSI), the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department seized on Monday 532 kilograms of cocaine with an approximate street value of $16 million from a St. Thomas residence. The seizure was...

BALTIMORE, MD. - On June 21, 2011, U.S. District Judge Benson Everett Legg sentenced April Lynn Baker, age 30, of Greencastle, Pennsylvania, formerly of Clear Spring, Maryland, to three years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute, and distributing, morphine and methadone, the use...

BALTIMORE, MD. - On June 21, 2011, U.S. District Judge Benson E. Legg sentenced Kevin Jenkins, a/k/a “Mud,”, age 46, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 160 months in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute drugs in the Gilmor Homes public housing complex in Baltimore. Judge...