United States Drug Enforcement Administration

HARRISBURG, PA - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg returned an indictment today charging a Camp Hill marijuana trafficker. According to United States Attorney Peter J. Smith, Andrew Angle, age 25, is charged with conspiracy to distribute marijuana...

SAN DIEGO - Twelve suspected members of a methamphetamine and cocaine trafficking ring were arrested early Wednesday and today at the culmination of a yearlong investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Major Mexican Traffickers’ Strike Force. All but two of the defendants appeared in federal court this afternoon...

DOVER, Del. - An investigation conducted by the Delaware State Police, Dover Police Department, (California) Police Department, and the Drug Enforcement Administration resulted in the seizure of a large amount of marijuana yesterday. At 7:25 p.m., a search warrant was executed at a residence in the 100 block of Midessa...

WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that a federal jury after less than four hours of deliberation over lunch found defendant William Boney guilty on charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, in violation of Title...

PHILADELPHIA - Wayne White, 52, of Miami, Florida, was sentenced today to 108 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute controlled and non-controlled prescription drugs, the distribution of controlled substances, and conspiracy to commit international money laundering, arising from the distribution of prescription drugs without valid prescriptions. Co-defendant Anthony Spence...

PHILADELPHIA - Joseph McIntyre, 38, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to six months incarceration for his role in a conspiracy to illegally distribute anabolic steroids. McIntyre, a former Philadelphia Police Officer, was charged in an indictment that named 14 others including fellow officers Keith Gidelson and George Sambuca. McIntyre pleaded...

PHILADELPHIA - Richard Minicozzi, M.D., 79, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to seven years in prison for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and 17 counts of distribution of controlled substances for running a pill mill out of his office located at 731 Morris Street in Philadelphia. Minicozzi was distributing (“Vicodin”)...

- SAN DIEGO - A man who created two medical marijuana dispensaries and a phony board of directors as a front for a multimillion-dollar drug trafficking operation was sentenced today to serve 100 months in federal prison. The defendant was immediately remanded into custody. Joshua John Hester of San Diego...

PITTSBURGH - Three residents of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have been sentenced in federal court on their convictions of violating federal narcotics trafficking and firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. Senior United States District Judge Donetta W. Ambrose sentenced Gary Moorefield, 45, of 10434 Lindberg Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...

PHILADELPHIA - Keith Gidelson, 36, a former Philadelphia police detective, was sentenced today to four years in prison for operating an anabolic steroid and human growth (“HGH”) distribution organization in Philadelphia and throughout the United States. His wife, Kirsten Gidelson, was sentenced to three years of probation, with the first...