DEA Archived Press Releases

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Honduran Citizen Indicted In Marijuana Grow House Conspiracy

TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O'Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces a federal indictment charging Jose Luis Panameno-(49, a citizen of Honduras) with conspiracy to possess with intent to manufacture and...
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Last Individual Sentenced As Part Of Operation Woodchop

ORLANDO, Fla. - United States Chief District Judge Anne C. Conway sentenced Willie (35, Apopka) last week to three years in federal prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute BZP (a drug that mimics the effects of “Ecstasy”). In March 2010, agents with...
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Livingston Man Sentenced 16 Years In Prison For International Drug Conspiracy

FRESNO, Calif. - Two years after a federal jury in Fresno convicted Gurmeet Bisla, 31, of Livingston, of conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute at least 1,000 kilograms of cocaine, U.S. District Judge Anthony W. Ishii sentenced Bisla to 16 years in prison, Drug Enforcement Administration...
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Zephyrhills Man Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison For Methamphetamine Trafficking

NOV 07 - (TAMPA, FL) Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Robert E. O’Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, and David Gee, Sheriff, Hillsborough County Sheriff's (HCSO), announced today that U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew sentenced George Arthur...
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Nine More Drug Traffickers Sentenced In Operation Sooner Or Later

NOV 06 - ( JACKSONVILLE, Fla - .) Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O’Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced that U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan sentenced nine individuals this week to federal prison...
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Fresno Man Sentenced To 19 Years, 7 Months In Prison For Drug Trafficking

FRESNO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced Jonathan Vega, 25, of Fresno, to 19 years and seven months in prison for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute it, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner. This...
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Agricultural Marijuana Cultivators Enter Guilty Pleas

FRESNO, Calif.) - Two men involved in the large-scale cultivation of marijuana on agricultural land pleaded guilty today, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Devil’s Den, Kings County (1:12-cr-233-LJO) - In the first case, Jonathan Anthony Meza, 20, of...
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Clovis Woman Sent To Prison For Mortgage Fraud Scheme

FRESNO, Calif. - Lynn Truong, aka Linh Thi Truong, 40, of Clovis, was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for a conspiracy to defraud lenders while buying homes to use to grow marijuana, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B...
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Three Family Members Sentenced For Cocaine Charges

ORLANDO, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O’Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced yesterday that U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell sentenced Maxine (44, Orlando), Martovous (35, St. Petersburg), and Cornelius (33, St...
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California-Hawaii Methamphetamine Ring Busted

FRESNO, Calif. - An indictment was unsealed today following the arrests of two members of a methamphetamine ring that distributed the drug from the Central Valley to Honolulu, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner. On October 11, 2012...