DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Kentucky Woman Sentenced To 27 Years Federal Prison For Illegally Providing Rx Drugs

LONDON, Ky. - A Jackson, Ky., woman who illegally provided prescription drugs to a woman who died of an overdose was sentenced to 327 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove. This marks the first federal sentence in the Eastern District of Kentucky for a...
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11 Defendants Charged In Federal Court With Drug Distribution In Manitowoc, Calumet, Sheboygan, And Milwaukee Counties

MILWAUKEE, WI - - Jack Riley, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and James L. Santelle, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on September 25, 2012, a 27-count indictment was returned in federal court charging 11 defendants with various...
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Thirty-Nine Alleged Associates Of Two Chicago Area Drug Trafficking Organizations Facing Federal Narcotics Charges

CHICAGO, IL - -Two leaders of separate drug trafficking organizations that operated independently while sometimes supplying each other with multiple kilograms of cocaine were arrested and are among 39 defendants who are facing federal drug charges, federal and local law enforcement officials announced today. The charges contained in a criminal...
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Eleven Defendants Charged With Distributing Multi-Kilogram Amounts Of Heroin Or Cocaine Following DEA-Led Investigation

Two brothers driving a flatbed tow truck carrying a blue Honda Prelude exited the Kennedy Expressway at Armitage Avenue where they failed to stop at a red light about 7:20 p.m. on March 5 of this year. Chicago police officers stopped the tow truck near the intersection of Armitage and...
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Detroit Area Doctor Charged With Illegal Distribution Of Rx Drugs And Health Care Fraud

DETROIT - An indictment was unsealed today charging Dr. Mikhayl Soliman, 59, of Plymouth, Michigan with Medicare fraud and distribution of prescription drugs, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. McQuade was joined in the announcement by Special Agent in Charge Robert L. Corso, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Detroit...
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15 Year Sentence For Clay County Man Guilty Of Drug Trafficking

INDIANAPOLIS, IN. - Jack Riley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and Joseph H. Hogsett, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana announced today that Timothy Cheatham, 47, of Clay County, Indiana has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge William...
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Indictment Charging Three Dane County Men With Drug Distribution Is Unsealed

MADISON, WI. - Jack Riley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Madison returned a 14-count indictment on August 22, 2012, charging...
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Seven Alleged Members Of Cincinnati Area Drug Trafficking Organization Arrested

CINCINNATI, OH - Teams of local law enforcement officers and federal agents this morning arrested seven people charged in complaints filed in U.S. District Court alleging that they conspired to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana. The crime carries a punishment of at least ten years and up to...
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Longtime Gangster Disciples Leader Victor Thompson Sentenced To 28 Years In Prison For 10-Year Drug Distribution Conspiracy

CHICAGO, IL. - A longtime high-ranking member of the Gangster Disciples street gang, Victor Thompson, was sentenced to more than 28 years in federal prison for distributing staggering quantities of crack cocaine, heroin and marijuana in low-income neighborhoods throughout the city over the course of a decade before he was...
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Physician From Kentucky Pleads Guilty Of Conspiracy To Distribute Controlled Substances

PIKEVILLE, KY. - A former Paintsville, Ky. doctor admitted in federal court today that he unlawfully dispensed approximately 50,000 prescription pills to individuals in Eastern Kentucky. Dr. Richard Albert, 64, pled guilty in U.S. District Court in Pikeville to conspiring to distribute and dispense controlled substances. Albert also agreed to...