United States Drug Enforcement Administration

- PHOENIX, AZ. - DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman and U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona, Dennis K. Burke, announced that Juan Enrique Rodriquez of Tolleson, Ariz., was sentenced on Tuesday by U.S. District Judge James A. Teilborg to 10 years in prison and 60 months...

MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ. - DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman, along with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office and the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office announced today the dismantling of a year-long investigation concerning drug trafficking organizations that were responsible for the distribution of thousands of pounds of marijuana throughout...

PITTSBURGH, PA. - Nineteen individuals have been charged in two separate, but related, indictments with violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. A one-count indictment returned on June 7, 2011, and unsealed today, charges nine Allegheny County residents and one Washington County resident with drug...

TUCSON, AZ. - DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman and U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona, Dennis K. Burke, announced that Evelio Cervantes-Conde, a Cuban immigrant lawfully residing in the United States, was convicted by a federal jury on Friday afternoon, May 27, 2011, for both attempting...

PHILADELPHIA, PA. - Hlateef Darlington, 28, of Whitehall, PA, was sentenced today to 12 years in prison, by U.S. District Court Judge Paul S. Diamond, on charges related to drug trafficking, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Darlington pleaded guilty on October 28, 2010 to conspiracy to distribute and...

PHILADELPHIA, PA. - Richard K. Creamer, 39, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to five years in prison for conspiracy to manufacture 1,000 or more marijuana plants and maintaining a place for the manufacture of controlled substances, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Creamer, who was a practicing attorney, was...

TUCSON, AZ. - DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, and Tohono O’Odham Nation Police Chief Joseph Delgado today announced the arrests of 27 of 46 suspected members of the Jesus Valencia Rodriguez drug trafficking organization, who work on behalf of the Mexican Sinaloa...

PHOENIX, AZ. - Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Doug Coleman and Chief Joe Delgado from the Tohono O’odham Police Department will announce tomorrow in a press conference the details of a 9-month investigation that targeted the activities of a major drug...

BEAUMONT, TX - A 51-year-old Spring Hill, Florida man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas Hinojosa and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. Tony Darrell Fuzz pleaded guilty to possession with intent to...

PHILADELPHIA, PA. - Indictments were unsealed today upon the arrests of ten individuals named in separate cases stemming from a long-term investigation into drug dealing in and around Darby Township, PA that included the Third Street Boys Crack Cocaine (“TSBCCO”), announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger and Drug Enforcement...