United States Drug Enforcement Administration

OCT (INDIANAPOLIS) - Jack Riley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Division, of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and Joseph H. Hogsett, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, announced today a city-wide operation that dismantled a massive drug trafficking organization in the Indianapolis area. The...

MILWAUKEE - Jack Riley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago office of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which includes Wisconsin, and James L. Santelle, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced today that a 13-count indictment was unsealed in federal court charging six defendants with various...

CHICAGO - - In a major pre-dawn enforcement action by a combined team of Chicago Police officers, DEA agents and additional State and Federal partners 33 individuals with alleged ties to the Imperial Insane Vice Lords, a violent, drug trafficking street gang, were arrested. Ten defendants who allegedly directed or...

September 27, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 BAY CITY, Mich. - Four residents of northern Michigan have been charged with participating in a drug trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. A ten-count indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in Bay City on...

September 27, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 COVINGTON, Ky. - A Newport, Ky., man, who previously admitted to selling heroin in northern Kentucky on multiple occasions, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. On Thursday, September 26, 2013, U.S. District Judge Amul Thapar sentenced 34-year-old Phillip...

September 19, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 DETROIT - A Franklin, Michigan resident, one of sixteen individuals indicted on federal drug charges, was sentenced to 190 months in prison on September 13th, 2013, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced. McQuade was joined in the announcement by...

September 17, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 COVINGTON, Ky. - A Covington, Ky., man has been arraigned on federal charges alleging that he sold a quantity of heroin to another individual who died as a result of using the drug. On September 12, 2013, a federal grand...

August 21, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Kerry Dickerson of Louisville, Kentucky, was sentenced this week to 120 months in federal prison by U.S. District Senior Judge Charles R. Simpson III. Dickerson was the last of 26 defendants, to be sentenced in one of...

INDIANAPOLIS - - Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry announced today that Indianapolis physician Dr. Segun Rasaki has been charged with 24 felonies for allegedly writing prescriptions for painkiller medications without a legitimate purpose, outside the usual course of professional practice or without a license. He also faces a charge of...

WASHINGTON - The United States has filed suit against PharMerica Corp. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, the Justice Department announced today. The lawsuit alleges that PharMerica violated the False Claims Act and the Controlled Substances Act by dispensing controlled drugs without valid prescriptions and...