United States Drug Enforcement Administration

PIKEVILLE, KY. - A former Paintsville, Ky. doctor admitted in federal court today that he unlawfully dispensed approximately 50,000 prescription pills to individuals in Eastern Kentucky. Dr. Richard Albert, 64, pled guilty in U.S. District Court in Pikeville to conspiring to distribute and dispense controlled substances. Albert also agreed to...

COLUMBUS, OH - Christopher Thompson, 35, of Galloway was sentenced to 181 months in prison for directing a conspiracy involving 15 other people who travelled from Ohio to Florida, obtained and filled prescriptions for oxycodone and other drugs, and sent the pills back to central Ohio for illegal distribution. Carter...

Seventeen San Antonio-based members of the Texas (TS) have been charged by federal grand jury indictment with conspiring to violate the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt (RICO) statute. The announcement was made today by United States Attorney Robert Pitman, DEA Special Agent in Charge Javier Pena, U.S. Marshal Robert Almonte, ATF Special...

LOS ANGELES, CA - Federal and local authorities arrested 14 defendants named in a federal indictment that alleges widespread drug trafficking activities by a Whittier-based organization and its Mexico-based suppliers of cocaine and methamphetamine on December 8. An additional five defendants named in the indictment are already in custody. Those...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Otis Morris, 60, of Lansing was convicted today after a jury trial the United States District Court in Kalamazoo. The jury trial was conducted before Chief United States District Judge Paul L. Maloney. Otis Morris, who has four previous felony drug convictions, was convicted of engaging...

DETROIT, MI -- - The final defendant in a six-defendant indictment charging mortgage fraud, arson, marijuana trafficking and money laundering entered a guilty plea in federal court today, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced. McQuade was joined in the announcement by U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge...

LOS ANGELES, CA - The third of four defendants charged in a money laundering scheme related to a narcotics ring that sent a powerful and often-abused cough syrup from Southern California to Texas, where it was distributed under street names such as “purple drank,” is scheduled to make his initial...

LOS ANGELES, CA - Timothy J. Landrum, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration Los Angeles Field Division, announced today that Los Angeles area residents turned in 16,560 pounds of medicine - more than 8 tons - on October 29 th as part of the third DEA Prescription...

LOS ANGELES, CA - More than 300 law enforcement officers from federal and local agencies executed dozens of arrest and search warrants this morning relative to a multiple fraudulent document rings operating in Los Angeles and Riverside Counties, Northern California, Illinois and Texas, with connections to other states and Mexico...

LOS ANGELES, CA - An Orange County physician was taken into custody last night after a year-long investigation resulted in a grand jury indictment that charges him with illegally prescribing dangerous, addictive opiates to “patients” he barely examined during meetings that cost as much as $600 and were often held...