DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Fresno Men Plead Guilty To Shipping Marijuana To Alabama

FRESNO, Calif. - Vincent Graves, 53, and Herman Graves, 46, both of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to their involvement in a drug ring that shipped marijuana grown in rural Fresno to Birmingham, Ala., Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Vincent...
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Fresno Man Sentenced For Growing Marijuana; Others Come To Fresno County For Same Purpose

FRESNO, Calif. - A Fresno man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for growing marijuana on agricultural land, and five newly charged defendants face possible long prison terms for growing marijuana in Fresno County, Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced...
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Fresno County Marijuana Prosecution Updates

FRESNO, Calif.) - Three marijuana cultivators in Fresno County pleaded guilty and one was sentenced today for their involvement in separate large-scale marijuana cultivation operations in Fresno County, Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. 1,429 Marijuana Plants Seized in Squaw (Case...
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IRS Employee Pleads Guilty To Structuring Drug Proceeds

FRESNO, Calif. - Catatea James, 47, of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to aiding and abetting structuring, Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Structuring is splitting up bank deposits to keep them under a $10,000 threshold in order to avoid the...
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$1,675,000 Forfeited For Operation Of Bakersfield Marijuana Stores And Indoor Marijuana Grows

FRESNO, Calif. - The owner of two commercial office buildings in Bakersfield has paid $1,675,000 to the United States to resolve claims that the buildings were used to house marijuana retail stores and large-scale indoor marijuana cultivation operations, Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney...
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Four Indicted In 30 Lb. Methamphetamine Seizure In Anderson, CA

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today, charging San Jose residents Jose Angel Martinez Chairez, 38; Angel Avilio Martinez-Diaz, 26; Jose Maria Villareal, 24; and Sunnyvale resident Jose Luis Ramirez Verduzco, 27, with conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and...
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Anderson Couple Indicted In Shasta County Marijuana Cultivation And Distribution

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that a federal grand jury returned a multi-count indictment yesterday charging John Wesley Lane, 33, and Kelsey Ann Lane, 26, both of Anderson, California, with manufacturing and distributing...
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Five Merced County Residents Plead Guilty To A Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

FRESNO, Calif. - Gonzalo Esquivel, aka Gunner, 34, and Efren Steve Jiminez, aka Grande, 33, both of Los Banos; Kenneth Hernandez, aka Kenny, 30, of Dos Palos; Gustavo Moreno, aka Gus Gus, 33, and David Torres, 33, both of Madera pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine before the...
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Marijuana Business Owner Sentenced To 87 Months

FRESNO, Calif. - Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that David Chavez, Sr., 53, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today in front of United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii, after pleading guilty December 17, 2012 to conspiring...
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Bakersfield Meth Trafficker Sentenced

FRESNO, Calif. - Sergio Hector Aguilar, aka Sergio Perez, 46, of Bakersfield, Calif., was sentenced today to 7 years and 10 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and committing this crime while under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office for...