United States Drug Enforcement Administration

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Today, U.S. District Court Judge Gordon J. Quist sentenced defendant Quintin Howell, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, to 15 years in prison. The sentencing concluded a multi-defendant joint investigation conducted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement (KVET), Michigan State Police’s Southwestern Enforcement (SWET), Federal Bureau...

CINCINNATI - On April 17, 2017, Raul Barocio, 47, of Cincinnati, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 63 months in prison. The prison sentence was the result of Barocio’s role as the source of supply for a cocaine trafficking organization operating in Cincinnati. Barocio pled guilty in April 2016...

LEXINGTON, Ky. - A federal judge has sentenced a Lexington man to life in prison, for illegally distributing drugs that caused an overdose death in Lexington. Senior U.S. District Judge Joseph M. Hood formally sentenced 28 year-old Joshua Donald Ewing for distribution of fentanyl and heroin resulting in the death...

CINCINNATI - Margaret Temponeras, 52, of Portsmouth, Ohio, pled guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. Temponeras owned the Unique Pain Management Clinic in Wheelersburg, Ohio. Benjamin C. Glassman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Timothy J. Plancon, Special Agent-in-Charge of the...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged 17 individuals with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin and/or methamphetamine in a superseding indictment. Benjamin C. Glassman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Timothy J. Plancon, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement...

PIKEVILLE, Ky. - A Knott County man has been sentenced to four consecutive life sentences, for drug trafficking and sexually abusing the young children of parents he encountered during his drug trafficking operations. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Amul Thapar sentenced Freddie Kennedy, Jr., on one count of conspiracy to...

DETROIT, Mich. - Dr. Anthony Conrardy, age 61, and Dr. William McCutchen, III, age 46, were found guilty yesterday of unlawfully distributing Schedule II narcotics by a federal jury in Detroit, MI, acting United States Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch announced today. Dr. Anthony Conrardy was convicted of five counts of...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A United States District Court jury convicted Frederick A. McShan, 37, and David McShan, 42, both of Steubenville, Ohio, of running a heroin-trafficking organization. Specifically, Frederick McShan was convicted of one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than one kilogram of heroin, 12...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - DEA Special Agent-in-Charge Timothy J. Plancon and U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn Jr. announced today that a Louisville man has been charged by grand jury indictment with intentionally distributing heroin to a person whose death and serious bodily injury resulted from the use of that substance. “This...

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Two Richmond, Kentucky residents have been sentenced for conspiring to distribute large quantities of fentanyl. U.S. Senior District Court Judge Joseph M. Hood sentenced Travis B. Preston, to 11 years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute 40 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing...