DEA Archived Press Releases

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Cuba man sentenced for meth trafficking following high-speed police chase

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Cuba, Missouri, man has been sentenced in federal court for methamphetamine trafficking following a high-speed police chase. Shannon L. Brim, 33, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark on Monday, Jan. 25, to 14 years in federal prison without parole. On Sept. 20, 2020...
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St. Louis man sentenced to 13 years for meth distribution

ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White sentenced LeVaughn Neal to 156 months in prison today. The 36-year-old St. Louis, Missouri, resident pleaded guilty in October to one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Investigators with the Drug Enforcement Administration in the St. Louis Division learned...
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Alleged leaders of Gangster Disciples indicted on racketeering charges

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Steven D. Weinhoeft, announced today that seven alleged members of the violent Gangster Disciples gang, including top national and state leaders, have been charged in a federal indictment accusing them of a years-long interstate racketeering conspiracy...
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Judge sentences St. Louis man to 10 years for drug trafficking and firearm charges

ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Catherine D. Perry sentenced James Lamont Fields to 120 months in prison today. The 23-year-old St. Louis resident pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and one count of felon in possession of a firearm. Fields, along with three other co-defendants...
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Grand jury indicts more than a dozen people in drug ring stretching from LA to St. Louis

ST. LOUIS – The U.S. Marshals arrested 16 people Tuesday as the result of a federal grand jury indictment returned Jan. 6, 2021, charging them with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. For more than a year, the Drug Enforcement...
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Jefferson County man pleads guilty to conspiracy to distribute meth

ST. LOUIS – Tracy Douglas Hyden, 55, of Jefferson County, Missouri, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. to one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and one count of possession with the intent to distribute more than 50...
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Seven people charged with trafficking cocaine in the Fox Valley area of Wisconsin

GREEN BAY, Wis. - Robert J. Bell, Special Agent in Charge Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) – Chicago Division and Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that seven defendants have been charged with offenses related to a conspiracy to distribute large amounts of cocaine...
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Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin Psychiatrist and Nurse indicted for unlawful distribution of controlled substances

FOND DU LAC, Wis. - Robert J. Bell, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) – Chicago Division and Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on January 5, 2021, a federal grand jury indicted John D. Whelan (age: 74), a psychiatrist, and...
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St. Louis man sentenced to 25 years for heroin, cocaine distribution

ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White sentenced Robert Hill to 25 years in prison today for drug distribution and being a felon in possession of a firearm. A jury had convicted Hill on Sept. 16, 2020 of one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute...
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St. Louis man sentenced to 20 years for drug-related murder

ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Catherine D. Perry sentenced Armond Calvin to 240 months in prison today for one count of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and one count of using a firearm to commit murder in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Calvin, 22, of St. Louis City, previously...