United States Drug Enforcement Administration

DALLAS, TX - Today, Special Agent in Charge James L. Capra, of the Dallas Field Division’s Drug Enforcement (DEA), announces the local component of the 2 nd nationwide prescription drug “Take-Back” initiative that seeks to prevent increased pill abuse and theft. The DEA, along with its law enforcement partners, will...

CRYSTAL CITY, TX -- - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas E. Hinojosa and United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced that federal, state and local authorities have arrested 10 individuals in the Crystal City area on federal drug trafficking charges. Those arrested yesterday include: 24-year-old...

GREENBELT, MD - . - U.S. District Judge Benson Everett Legg sentenced Luis Reyes-Torres, age 26, of Hagerstown, Maryland, today to 115 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute, and distributing, morphine and methadone, the use of which resulted in the death of...

NORFOLK, VA - . -Two brothers, Manuel Zuniga, age 24, and Aaron Zuniga, age 23, both from Woodbridge, Virginia, have been sentenced in Norfolk federal court to prison terms for their roles in a conspiracy involving the distribution of $3 million worth of cocaine in Virginia Beach, Va. Ava A...

GREENBELT, MD - . - U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced Howard Ray Barnes, age 60, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, today to 140 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for distributing heroin, possessing with intent to distribute cocaine and possessing a gun in furtherance of...

Acting Special Agent In Charge Thomas Hinojosa will be participating in a National Prescription Take Back Press Conference, April 27, 2011 at 2:30 p.m., at the DEA Houston Field Office, located at 1433 West Loop South, in the 1 st floor training room. He, along with invited guest Harris County...

DALLAS, TX - Nine defendants, who are charged in a federal indictment with running a crack cocaine distribution conspiracy since 2009 in Terrell, Texas, were arrested today in an operation led by the Terrell Police Department and the Drug Enforcement (DEA). All those arrested are scheduled to make their initial...

SULLIVAN CITY, TX - Former Sullivan City Police Chief Hernan Guerra has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison without parole for drug-trafficking, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas Hinojosa and United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. United States District Judge Randy Crane sentenced...

BALTIMORE, MD. - U.S. District Judge Benson Everett Legg sentenced Eric Griffin, 31, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to more than 12 years in prison, followed by three years of supervisedrelease, for possession with intent to distribute heroin. The sentence was announced by Special Agent in Charge Ava Cooper-Davis of the...

BALTIMORE, MD. - At least 425 law enforcement officers from DEA, Baltimore Police Department, U.S. Marshals Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Baltimore County Police Department participated in an enforcement operation resulting in the seizure of heroin, marijuana, guns and approximately $69,000 in cash. Thirty-eight defendants...