United States Drug Enforcement Administration

(Alexandria, VA) – Sergio Adrian Sicairos, 28, of Pomona, California, was sentenced today to 235 months in federal prison by United States District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee based on convictions for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and conspiracy to commit money laundering. United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia...

JAN 8 -- (Alexandria, VA) - Alexandre de Basseville, 36, of Los Angeles, California, and Geneva, Switzerland, was sentenced today to 240 months in prison and ordered to forfeit $528,500, after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to distribute MDMA (“Ecstasy”). Chuck Rosenberg, United States...

DEC 7 -- United States Attorney John L. Brownlee announced today that DERON JONES, 37, OLLIE CLOYD, 41, and MONICA WORLEY,26, all of Bristol, Virginia, were found guilty by a jury in the United States District Court in Abingdon, Virginia, for conspiring to distribute crack cocaine and distribution of crack...

NOV 28 -- BALTIMORE, Maryland - United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein, Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Carl Kotowski, and other officials will hold a press conference on Thursday, November 30, 2006, at 2:00 p.m., at the United States Attorney’s Office, 36 S. Charles Street, 4 th...

NOV 7 -- Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted 11 individuals in a multi-state drug conspiracy, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein. The indictment was returned on September 26, 2006 and unsealed today upon the arrests of the defendants. United States...

NOV 2 -- (WASHINGTON D.C.) – The Drug Enforcement Administration announced the arrest of 16 defendants, including Henry County Sheriff Harold Cassell, in the culmination of a five-year investigation into a major drug, weapons, and money laundering operation which also involved several current and former law enforcement officials. Four individuals...

(Washington, D.C.)- Mr. Michael J. Turner, Staff Coordinator for the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Demand Reduction Program will give two, 45-minute presentations to 800 students at Prince Edwards Middle School in Farmville, Virginia beginning at 2:15 p.m. on Friday, October 27th. Farmville is located 60 miles Southwest of Richmond. The presentations...

OCT 18--BALTIMORE, Maryland - Howard Rice, age 40, and Raeshio Rice, age 33, both of Baltimore, pleaded guilty in U.S. Court to racketeering conspiracy and drug conspiracy charges arising from their operation of a large narcotics-trafficking enterprise in Baltimore over a 10-year period, announced Assistant Special Agent in Charge for...

(Baltimore, Maryland) - A federal grand jury indicted the following defendants for conspiring to distribute, outside the scope of professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose, at least eight million dosage units of hydrocodone and conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with the distribution of hydrocodone, announced...

Carl J. Kotowski, Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, Baltimore District Office; Larry Harmel, Director of the Mid Atlantic Regional Community Policing Institute, Johns Hopkins University; and the DEA Quantico, VA, Office of Training will present a four-hour Meth Awareness Training program to local Police, EMS, Fire and...