DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Second Fresno County Pot House Mortgage Fraudster Sentenced

FRESNO, CA -- - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced today that Shirley Wong, aka Ngoc Li Vuong, 43, of San Jose, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for conspiring to commit mail fraud in connection...
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DEA And Partners Holding Second Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day In April

EL PASO, TX - This spring, the Drug Enforcement Administration and its national and community partners will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. On Saturday, April 30th, from 10 a.m. to 2...
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Fifth Fowler Meth Dealer Pleads Guilty

FRESNO, CA -- - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner, Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims, DEA Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams, ICE-HSI Special Agent Charge Mark Wollman, and ATF Special Agent in Charge Stephen C. Herkins announced today that the last of five defendants charged following a drug...
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Federal And Local Law Enforcement Round Up Methamphetamine Manufacturing And Distribution Rings

EL PASO, TX -- - United States Attorney John E. Murphy and DEA Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit announced the arrests of 11 El Paso area residents charged with conspiring to manufacture methamphetamine. The 11 defendants are charged in two separate indictments returned by the Federal Grand Jury...
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DEA Holding Second Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day In April

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - This spring, the Drug Enforcement Administration and its national and community partners will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. On Saturday, April 30th, from 10 a.m. to 2...
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Los Banos Trucking Company Owners Sent To Prison For Tax & Bribery Conspiracy

FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner, Treasury Inspector General of Tax (TIGTA) Special Agent in Charge Julie Parodi, IRS - Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Scott O’Briant, and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced that Kulwant Lasher, 54, an owner of...
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Coarsegold Cannabis Cultivator Convicted

FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced that Eduardo Medina-Mendoza, aka Eduardo Nunez Medina, 48, of Guerrero, Mexico, entered a guilty plea yesterday to conspiring to manufacture or cultivate, to distribute, and to possess with intent...
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Bakersfield Drug-Buy Defendant Sentenced

FRENSO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced today that Sokha Bhopal, aka Balwinder Singh Bhopal, 51, of Punjab, India, was sentenced on March 14, 2011, to seven years and two months in prison to be...
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Police Chief, Mayor And Village Trustee Of Columbus, New Mexico Indicted In Federal Firearms Trafficking Case

LAS CRUCES, NM- - DEA Special Agent in Charge Joseph A. Arabit, ICE Special Agent in Charge Manuel Oyola-Torres, ATF Special Agent in Charge William Newell, and United States Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales for the District of New Mexico announced today that a federal grand jury in New Mexico has...
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Charges Filed Against Parole Officer For Failure To Appear

FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams, announced that a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment today against Timothy Duane, 30, for failure to appear, adding the a fifth criminal charge to four pending drug charges...