United States Drug Enforcement Administration

CINCINNATI, OH - The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Robert L. Corso announced today the immediate suspensions of the DEA Certificate of Registration for four physicians and a pharmacy operating in Scioto County, Ohio. The DEA served Immediate Suspension (ISO) on physicians Margy Temponeras, John Temponeras, Mark...

FRESNO, CA -- - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced today that Marco Antonio Lopez-Florez, 34, a professional soccer player from Guadalajara, Mexico, and Ernesto Rocha, 21, of Bakersfield, were each sentenced to 10 years in prison, to...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Anthony D. Williams, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration San Francisco Field Division, announced today that Northern California and Central Valley residents turned in 28,377 pounds of medicine - more than 14 tons - as part of the DEA Prescription Drug Take-Back Program...

SACRAMENTO, CA - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that a grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against two brothers, Masod Rahimi, 24, and Mansore Rahimi, 22, both of Union City, charging them in a conspiracy to...

SACRAMENTO, CA - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging Gerald Donald Taylor, 49, with possessing a form of cocaine base known as crack cocaine with the intent to...

CINCINNATI, OH - A United States District Court jury convicted Dr. Paul H. Volkman of illegally prescribing and dispensing millions of pain pills outside the scope of a legitimate medical practice which resulted in the deaths of four people between 2003 and 2005. He faces at least 20 years in...

FRESNO, CA -- - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today that Israel Cavazos, 38, of Bakersfield, was sentenced Monday by United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii, to 42 months in prison to be followed by a...

BEAUMONT, TX - A 51-year-old Spring Hill, Florida man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas Hinojosa and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. Tony Darrell Fuzz pleaded guilty to possession with intent to...

SACRAMENTO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced that Mark Parker, 38, of Vallejo, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Morrison C. England, Jr. to 30 years in federal prison, a $25,000 fine, and a...

PADUCAH, KY - - David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky and Robert L. Corso, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), announced today that U.S. District Judge Thomas B. Russell sentenced two Hopkinsville, Kentucky men to life in prison without the...