United States Drug Enforcement Administration

LAS VEGAS - U.S. District Judge Larry R. Hicks sentenced a Reno man to 12½ years in prison and five years of supervised release following his arrest and conviction for possessing approximately one kilogram of pure methamphetamine in his vehicle. Francisco Fuentes Ibarra, 35, pleaded guilty in May to one...

400 felony charges include negligent homicide HAMILTON, Mont. - Dr. Chris Arthur Christensen was arrested on August 27, 2015 after a two year investigation into his medical practice and drug trafficking activities. Christensen faces 400 felony drug charges, including two negligent homicide charges involving drug overdoses. It's alleged the doctor...

SANTA ANA, Calif. - A Santa Barbara-area physician who wrote numerous prescriptions for powerful painkillers for “patients” - many of whom were drug addicts, and some of whom died from drug overdose - was convicted today of 79 federal drug trafficking charges. Julio Gabriel Diaz, 67, a Goleta resident who...

Prosecutions represent one of the most significant investigations to date in the US regarding synthetic cannabinoid trafficking, resulting in more than 220 Spice-related ER visits in Colorado in the Fall of 2013 DENVER - U.S. District Court Judge Philip A. Brimmer sentenced John Bowen, age 68, of Las Vegas to...

Indictment alleges doctor illegally distributed from his practice LONGMONT, Colo. - The Longmont Police Department and DEA’s Tactical Diversion Squad arrested Dr. Larry Eckstein on August 18, 2015 for unlawful sales and distribution of Oxycodone, a schedule II controlled substance, from his medical practice. The arrest was based on a...

LOS ANGELES - One of the principal cocaine traffickers associated with an international narcotics ring was sentenced this morning to 20 years in federal prison. Zaid Wakil, 43, of Winston Salem, North Carolina, was sentenced by United States District Judge George H. Wu for his role in acquiring more than...

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - United States District Judge Derrick K. Watson sentenced Serafine Magallon, 41, to 225 months imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine. In sentencing Magallon, a San Jose, California resident, Judge Watson found that he held...

Billings Resident Office, Eastern Montana HIDTA concludes long term, multi-jurisdiction, multi-agency investigation BILLINGS, Mont. - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today the completion of a Montana-based operation that convicted 13 defendants for methamphetamine, firearms and money laundering charges, involving an estimated $300,000 worth of meth in Montana. Operation Pale...

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - After an investigation that began in November 2014, members of the DEA Ventura Resident Office and San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Narcotics Unit shut down a major cocaine distribution organization that was operating in and around San Luis Obispo County. Investigators served search warrants over...

LOS ANGELES - A man linked to one of the most notorious organized crime rings in Israel and who on his own operated “a vast international criminal conspiracy engaged in drug trafficking and money laundering” was sentenced today to 384 months in federal prison. Matsri was found guilty by a...