United States Drug Enforcement Administration

PASCO, Wash. - Early this morning, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the Tri-Cities Metro Drug Task (MDTF) executed three federal search warrants in Pasco, Washington. The enforcement action stems from a federal investigation targeting a methamphetamine drug trafficking organization. As a result, four people were taken into custody and will...

PHILADELPHIA - A federal jury, today, found Dr. Norman Werther, 74, of Ft. Washington, PA, guilty of more than 300 counts, including distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death. In addition to the charge of distribution resulting in death, the jury found Werther guilty of 184 counts of illegally...

WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today the sentencing of one man on narcotics trafficking and attempted murder convictions, and the separate conviction of that man’s brother for using Facebook to threaten to kill a government witness during the narcotics...

SCRANTON, Pa. - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District Pennsylvania announced the filing of indictments returned by a federal grand jury in Scranton on May 21 and June 4, 2013, charging a total of 23 persons with offenses related to trafficking in controlled substances, including heroin. According...

BOISE, Idaho - Two brothers and former owners and operators of two Treasure Valley head shops, Smoke Shack and Smoke Shack Two were sentenced to federal prison on June 4, 2013, for offering drug paraphernalia for sale and one count of money laundering. Robert T. Guerrero, Jr., 36, of Meridian...

BOISE, Idaho - Alonso Martinez, 26, of Earlimart, California, was sentenced on June 4, 2013, to 60 months in prison for possession of 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine with intent to deliver. Martinez, born in Mexico but a naturalized citizen of the United States, was also ordered to...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jose Cruz, 32, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner to 120 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release for distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine. Judge...

SEATTLE - A former Amanda Park, Washington resident who operated a shingle mill as a cover for distributing methamphetamine was sentenced today to ten years in prison. Jose Naur Sanchez, 35, was arrested in June 2012, following a lengthy investigation led by the Drug Enforcement Administration. Sanchez pleaded guilty in...

MEDFORD, Ore. - Robert Hisamoto, 42, of Ashland, Oregon, was sentenced today to 48 months in federal prison for conspiracy to manufacture and distribute marijuana. Hisamoto is the owner and operator of Samurai Fighting Arts in Medford, Oregon. In August 2011, the investigation led by the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA)...

BOISE, Idaho - - Lena Kettle, 46, of Caldwell, Idaho, Heidi Aguila, 34, of Middleton, Idaho, and Kenneth Jones, 47, of Elverta, California, appeared in federal court on May 28, 2013, on an 89-count federal indictment charging them and 17 others with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine; possession with intent to...