United States Drug Enforcement Administration

JACKSON, Miss. - Seven individuals who were indicted as a result of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) “Operation Yeti Ice” investigation have entered guilty pleas before U.S. District Judge Dan Jordan III, DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Joseph W. Shepherd and U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today. “Operation Yeti...

NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown, U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite, FBI Special Agent in Charge Michael Anderson, Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro, New Orleans Police Superintendent Michael Harrison, and Louisiana State Probation and Parole District Administrator Frank Palestina announce the results of...

(BOSTON - New England Field Division Acting Special Agent in Charge Michael J. Ferguson and U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz announced that the United States reached a civil settlement yesterday with Performance Nutrition, a Seekonk, Mass.-based business that sells nutritional supplements online and in retail stores in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and...

(FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Downing and Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Leonel Padilla, Andres Diaz and Jonni Diaz were sentenced yesterday in Northwest Arkansas to a total of over 32 years in federal prison...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Downing and Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas announced the unsealing of a Complaint and the arrest this morning of Christopher Watson, a Perry County pharmacist, charging him with illegal distribution...

(NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that on Friday, January 23, Scott Myrie, also known as “Venom,” 27, of Bedford Hills, N.Y., was...

(BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Nate Brewer - , 34, of Blaine, Maine, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to possess with intent to...

(BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Gina Nelson, 31 - , of Bradley, Maine was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr...

(BOSTON - After a month-long federal trial, Joshua M. Gonsalves was sentenced on multiple charges arising from a three-year conspiracy involving hundreds of thousands of 30-milligram oxycodone pills which he and his brother distributed on Cape Cod and generated over $5 million in proceeds. Joshua M. Gonsalves, 34, of Dennisport...

(BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced yesterday to 16 years in federal prison for drug trafficking and firearm charges. Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New England Field Division and United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz, announced that Gerald Smith, a/k/a “G-Man,”...