United States Drug Enforcement Administration

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Jesus Bernal Urena, 52, of Mexico, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to 11 years and eight months in prison for a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen announced. According to...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Dr. Gilberto Sanchez, 56, of Montgomery, Alabama, was sentenced to serve 12 years and 1 month in prison for prescribing unnecessary controlled substances to his patients, committing health care fraud, and laundering money, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Bret Hamilton and United States...

ALEXANDRIA, La. – A senior leader of the Aryan Circle (AC) and a subordinate gang member pleaded guilty today and yesterday to being an accessory-after-the-fact to racketeering murder. David Wayne Williams, 38, of Sulphur, Louisiana, a senior leader in the gang, and Leland Hamm, 43, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, pleaded guilty...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The Department of Justice has reached an agreement with CVS Pharmacy, Inc. to resolve violations of the federal Controlled Substances Act and its implementing regulations at CVS Pharmacy locations throughout the Northern District of Alabama, announced DEA Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and U.S. Attorney...

LAFAYETTE, La. – A Lafayette man was sentenced Monday to nearly 3 years (151 months) in prison for conspiring to distribute multiple quantities of narcotics and illegal possessing a 9 mm handgun. Jacob Glen Collett, 35, of Lafayette, was sentenced by a U.S. District Judge on one count of conspiracy...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Four members of a drug trafficking organization based in Lee County pled guilty to charges against them on the second day of their trial. Their guilty pleas bring the total number of members of the DTO who have pled guilty in federal court to eighteen. A nineteenth...

NEW ORLEANS – Four River Parish residents, Andre Staggers, a/k/a “Dre,” age 44, Corey Session, age 44, Gregory London, Jr., a/k/a “Lil Gregg,” age 42, and Leonard Morrison, a/k/a “Leonard London,” age 36, were convicted today after a five-day trial in U.S. District Court. According to evidence presented at trial...

OAKLAND, Calif. – Marcos Anthony Hatch was sentenced Friday, August 3, 2018, to 63 months in prison for dealing in firearms and prescription medications without a license and related charges, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Jill...

NEW ORLEANS - Jarvis Hardy, 29, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty this week to multiple charges that led to the shooting of a DEA task force officer. Hardy is charged with conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 280 grams or more of a mixture/substance containing...

JACKSON, Miss. - A Jackson man, Michael Gene Rushing, 58, was sentenced by a Senior U.S. District Judge to more than 17 years (210 months) in jail, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for producing child pornography and possession of child pornography, announced DEA Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Derryle Smith...