United States Drug Enforcement Administration

FORT SMITH, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Downing and Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Randal Jernigan, age 31, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, was sentenced today on one count of Distribution of Methamphetamine. Jernigan was sentenced to...

CAMDEN, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Downing; Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas; David Resch, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI; David Butler, Prosecuting Attorney for the 13th Judicial District of Arkansas; and the Arkansas State Police, announced...

JACKSON, Miss. - Seven individuals who were indicted as a result of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) “Operation Yeti Ice” investigation have entered guilty pleas before U.S. District Judge Dan Jordan III, DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Joseph W. Shepherd and U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today. “Operation Yeti...

NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown, U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite, FBI Special Agent in Charge Michael Anderson, Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro, New Orleans Police Superintendent Michael Harrison, and Louisiana State Probation and Parole District Administrator Frank Palestina announce the results of...

(FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Downing and Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Leonel Padilla, Andres Diaz and Jonni Diaz were sentenced yesterday in Northwest Arkansas to a total of over 32 years in federal prison...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Downing and Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas announced the unsealing of a Complaint and the arrest this morning of Christopher Watson, a Perry County pharmacist, charging him with illegal distribution...

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...

MARQUETTE, Mich. - U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today the sentencing on December 22, 2014, of Leanna Lynn Horton, 38, and Christopher Wayne Brow, 34, both of Marquette. Horton and Brow had each pleaded guilty to a single charge of conspiracy to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute...

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Norshawn Michael Duplessis, 40, of Detroit, Mich., has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for possessing hundreds of grams of heroin and a firearm in Lexington, Kentucky. On December 17, 2014, U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves sentenced Duplessis for possession with intent to distribute 100...