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Former Fresno Police Department Detective And Fresno Marijuana Trafficker Sentenced To Federal Prison For Bribery Conspiracy

FRESNO, Calif. - Derik Carson Kumagai, 41, of Fresno, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to two years in prison for conspiring to commit bribery, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Kumagai was ordered to self-surrender on June 12 at 2:00 p.m. to begin...
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Two Sacramento Area Methamphetamine Trafficking Cases Indicted Today

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned two separate indictments today charging a total of six defendants with methamphetamine trafficking offenses. In the first case, Jose Acosta, 34, Jorge Rios, 39, Jose Luis Aguilar, 49, Diego Velazquez, 29, and Feliciano Ochoa Reyes, 30, all Mexican nationals, were charged with...
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U.S. Attorney’s Office Distributes Forfeited Proceeds Of Cocaine Trafficking Case To Kern County Sheriff’s Office And The Bakersfield Police Department

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office has distributed a portion of forfeited narcotics proceeds to the Kern County Sheriff’s Office and the Bakersfield Police Department, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. The final payment was made this month. In total, the Sheriff’s Office received $595,037.92, and the Police...
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Fourth Defendant Sentenced For Marijuana Cultivation Operation In Sequoia National Forest

FRESNO, Calif. - David Arreola, 29, of Michoacán, Mexico, was sentenced today to seven and a half years in prison for conspiring to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana grown on public land and possessing a firearm in furtherance of the conspiracy. According to court documents, Arreola...
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Bakersfield Man Charged With Possession With Intent To Distribute 12 Kilograms Of Cocaine

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a single-count indictment on Thursday against Jonathan Arturo Alvarez, 25, of Bakersfield, charging him with possession with intent to distribute cocaine. According to court documents, on April 2, 2015, a California Highway Patrol officer conducted a traffic stop of the vehicle driven...
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Three Indicted For Methamphetamine Trafficking

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an 11-count indictment Thursday against Donnie Phillips, 56, of Concord; Gordon Miller, 57, of Clayton; and Phyliss Mosher, 51, of Vallejo, charging them with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and related methamphetamine trafficking charges. According to court documents, between June 2014 and February...
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Coloradan Sentenced For California Marijuana Conspiracy

FRESNO, Calif. - Mark Jeff Zeldes, 53, of Broomfield, Colorado, was sentenced today to three years and eight months in prison for a conspiracy in California to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana. Zeldes was also ordered to forfeit over 300 pieces of equipment used for the...
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Florida Man Sentenced To 30 Months In Jail And 18 Months Home Confinement For Conspiracy To Distribute Oxycodone

(PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Michael Serritella, 60, of Palm Harbor, Florida, was sentenced by United States District Judge Nancy Torresen to 30 months in prison to...
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Acton Woman Convicted Of Distributing "N-Bomb"

(BOSTON - An Acton woman pleaded guilty today to distributing 25B-NBOMe, a synthetic hallucinogen, also known as “N-Bomb” that is gaining popularity among young people. Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Boston Field Division, and United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz announced that Mikayla...
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Hartford Heroin Trafficker Sentenced To Three Years In Federal Prison

(HARTFORD, 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 Alvaro Alvarado, 27, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford...