United States Drug Enforcement Administration

September 27, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 COVINGTON, Ky. - A Newport, Ky., man, who previously admitted to selling heroin in northern Kentucky on multiple occasions, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. On Thursday, September 26, 2013, U.S. District Judge Amul Thapar sentenced 34-year-old Phillip...

September 19, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 DETROIT - A Franklin, Michigan resident, one of sixteen individuals indicted on federal drug charges, was sentenced to 190 months in prison on September 13th, 2013, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced. McQuade was joined in the announcement by...

September 17, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 COVINGTON, Ky. - A Covington, Ky., man has been arraigned on federal charges alleging that he sold a quantity of heroin to another individual who died as a result of using the drug. On September 12, 2013, a federal grand...

SHREVEPORT - , La. - Acting Special Agent in Charge Joseph W. Shepherd announced on August 26, 2013 that William Paul Boyter, 76, Michael Paul Boyter, 51, and Antony Reuben Riley, 49, all of Shreveport, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote to charges of conspiracy, money laundering...

August 21, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Kerry Dickerson of Louisville, Kentucky, was sentenced this week to 120 months in federal prison by U.S. District Senior Judge Charles R. Simpson III. Dickerson was the last of 26 defendants, to be sentenced in one of...

(MONTGOMERY, Ala.) - - Shedrick D. Hollis, 40, of Phenix City, was sentenced on August 11, 2013 to 35 years in prison for drug trafficking and weapons possession charges. On March 14, 2013, Hollis was convicted of possession with the intent to distribute cocaine powder, crack cocaine, (a club drug...

NEW ORLEANS - Anthony Smith, 50, a resident of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, was sentenced today by U. S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo to 183 (15.25 years) imprisonment for his role in a conspiracy involving the trafficking of more than five kilograms of cocaine from the Houston, Texas area, to Bogalusa...

(NEW ORLEANS) - - William Stevenson age 26, a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced on July 24, 2013 by U. S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval, Jr., to 140 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of 1...

July 22, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Mercury Ambulance Service, Inc. (MAS), d/b/a Rural/Metro, has voluntarily reached an agreement today, with the United States of America, to pay $40,000 to settle allegations that it violated the federal Controlled Substances Act, announced David J. Hale...

(NEW ORLEANS) - - Jeffrey Michele, 43; Leslie McMorris, 55; and Sam Michele, III,40, all residents of Tangipahoa Parish, were indicted today by a federal Grand Jury on two counts involving cocaine conspiracy and distribution charges occurring in Tangipahoa Parish. The investigation, conducted by the New Orleans Field Division DEA...