United States Drug Enforcement Administration

LAS VEGAS - - A Las Vegas physician has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he unlawfully prescribed large quantities of Oxycodone and other highly addictive prescription drugs, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada. Victor Bruce M.D., 48, of Las...

Note: Three defendants charged are not named in this document due to operational safety concerns. When those concerns are addressed, a comprehensive press release will be issued. LOS ANGELES - A multi-agency investigation into gang-related crime in the San Gabriel Valley has led to federal charges against 24 members and...

PHILADELPHIA - A federal jury, yesterday, found 52-year old Rafael Cordero, a 23-year veteran of the Philadelphia Police force, guilty of interfering with the federal drug investigation of the Christian Serrano/Edwin Medina Drug Trafficking ("DTOs"). Cordero provided sensitive law enforcement information about drug investigations to his half-brother, David Garcia, a...

LOS ANGELES - A Pomona man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug trafficking charge for possessing more than one-half pound of methamphetamine that he was planning to distribute. Raymond Anthony Montanez, 24, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and being a felon in possession of...

HONOLULU - After a five day trial in United States District Court in Honolulu, a federal jury today found Jacob Drummondo-Farias, 30, of Waialua, guilty of conspiring to distribute and possess, with intent to distribute, 50 grams or more of methamphetamine between 2011 and January, 2012. Earlier during the trial...

LOS ANGELES - Anthony D. Williams, Special Agent in Charge of the Los Angeles Field Division, announced today that area residents turned in more than 29,740 (15 tons) of medication as part of the seventh DEA National Prescription Drug Take-Back Program. This event was held on Saturday, October 26th, and...

WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Kevin Morris, age 24 of Franklin Township, (Chester County), was sentenced to 57 months imprisonment for his role in a drug conspiracy centered in Wilmington that involved the importation of cocaine and...

SCRANTON, Pa. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, held a meeting in Scranton, on October 9, 2013, to announce that a total of $4,093,753.13 was seized and forfeited as a result of a joint investigation by local and state law enforcement authorities and the...

OCT 21 - LOS ANGELES - The one-time top leader of the Avenues gang in northwest Los Angeles and the lead defendant in a federal racketeering indictment who admitted murdering a rival gang member and ordered the killing of one of his underlings was sentenced this morning to 25 years...

SANTA ANA, Calif. - An Orange County physician who admitted that he illegally prescribed dangerous, addictive painkillers to “patients” he barely examined during meetings that were often held at Starbucks stores was sentenced late today to over 11 years in federal prison. Alvin Mingczech Yee, 44, of Mission Viejo, was...