United States Drug Enforcement Administration

MILWAUKEE, WI. - The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced today the arrest of 23 defendants on both state and federal charges related to the illegal distribution of pharmaceutical controlled substances in the Milwaukee metropolitan area. The following 20 individuals were charged by the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office: Gloria Blackmon...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A former captain in the U.S. Army Reserve stationed in Afghanistan was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for soliciting $1.3 million in bribes from contractors involved in U.S.-funded reconstruction efforts and participating in a conspiracy to traffic heroin from Southeast Asia. The sentence was announced...

MINNEAPOLIS, MN. - A federal indictment unsealed on September 16, 2011 charged 22 individuals with conspiring to distribute large amounts of marijuana and methamphetamine in the Twin Cities. The indictment, which was filed on September 7, 2011, charges the defendants with one count of conspiracy to distribute and possession with...

CHICAGO, IL. - A joint investigation by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration and the Cook County Sheriff’s Police Department resulted in the arrest of an employee of a Skokie, Illinois pharmacy for illegally selling millions of dollars worth of prescription controlled substances. The Office of Cook County State’s Attorney...

GREENBELT, MD. - On September 1, 2011, Stanley Needleman, age 68, of Pikesville, Maryland, pled guilty to tax evasion and structuring financial transactions to avoid reporting large cash receipts and deposits. The guilty plea was announced by Special Agent in Charge Ava Cooper-Davis of the Drug Enforcement Administration Washington Field...

GREENBELT, MD. - U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams, Jr. sentenced Wilson Lee Garrett, age 37, of Waldorf, Maryland, who was a legal assistant at the Department of Justice when he was arrested in 2009, to serve 248 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to...

INDIANAPOLIS, IN. - Danny Harmon, 56, of New Castle, Indiana was convicted on August 26 on drug conspiracy charges following a jury trial before United States District Court Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson in Indianapolis. A cooperative effort by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations Division...

BALTIMORE, MD. - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced, Eric Brown, aka “E” and “EB,” age 42, of Baltimore, late yesterday to 12 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for a conspiracy to conduct and participate in the activities of the Black Guerilla (BGF)...

BALTIMORE, MD. - Special Agent in Charge Ava Cooper-Davis of the Drug Enforcement Administration, United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein, Baltimore City State’s Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein; and Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III announced the sentencing of Umar Burley to 15 years in...

NEWPORT NEWS, VA. - Thirty-five individuals have been indicted as part of an ongoing investigation into major heroin trafficking rings operating throughout the Virginia Peninsula. To date, 72 federal defendants and more than 100 related state defendants have been charged as part of this investigation. Ava Cooper-Davis, Special Agent in...