United States Drug Enforcement Administration

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Kim Duron Mulder, 55, formerly of Grand Rapids, and Charles Wayne Brooks, 63, of Alma, entered guilty pleas today before United States District Judge Robert J. Jonker on charges related to the illegal restocking and re-dispensing of recycled drugs at Kentwood Pharmacy. Mr. Mulder, formerly the...

SEATTLE - A man who sold guns and heroin from the basement apartment of a home in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to six years in prison and three years of supervised release. Jorge Carlos Camps, 34, was arrested in May 2014, when...

BOISE, Idaho - Juan Pablo Villasenor-Villa, 25, of Michoacan, Mexico, was sentenced on February 10, 2015, to 288 months in prison for continuing criminal enterprise involving the unlawful growing of thousands of marijuana plants, and possession of large quantities of harvested marijuana with intent to distribute it, as well as...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - On February 13th, 2015, an Akron physician was sentenced to 10 years in prison for illegally prescribing hundreds of thousands of doses of painkillers and other pills to customers for no legitimate medical purpose. These illegal prescribing patterns occurred even after at least eight customers died from...

DETROIT - Two physicians who practiced in Warren, Michigan, pleaded guilty today to writing prescriptions for oxycodone without medical justification, and one also pleaded guilty to health care fraud, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. McQuade was joined in the announcement by U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today that Francis Block, 45, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, was sentenced to life in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney for various drug and witness tampering charges. Block was convicted following a four-day jury trial that concluded on October 2...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Kentucky physician was charged today by a federal grand jury with prescribing pain medications that resulted in the deaths of five patients. He was also charged with health care fraud and unlawful distribution or dispensing of controlled substances. The charges were jointly announced by Acting U.S...

CLEVELAND - A California man was sentenced to more than 22 years in federal prison for cocaine trafficking. Dwight Erwin Herrera, 40, was convicted by a jury in November of conspiracy to distribute and distribution of cocaine greater than five kilograms. Herrera and others were arrested in Cleveland on December...

BOISE, Idaho - Christopher Deleongurro Snyder, 24, of Boise, Idaho, became the latest member of a Treasure Valley oxycodone and heroin distribution ring to be sentenced to federal prison. U.S. District Court Judge Edward J. Lodge sentenced Snyder on January 14, 2015, to 87 months in prison followed by five...

MEDFORD, Ore - On Monday, January 12, 2015, Senior U.S. District Judge Owen M. Panner sentenced Steven Allen Longbrake, 28, of Medford, Oregon, to 12 1/2 years in federal prison for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Longbrake had previously pleaded guilty to that offense on September 15, 2014...