DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
2012 Results - Showing 1621 to 1630
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Fifth Bakersfield Marijuana Business Employee Sentenced

FRESNO, CA - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that today United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii sentenced John Wayne Wyatt, 31, of Bakersfield, to two and a half years in prison to be followed by three...
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Two Sentenced For Heroin Offenses

FRESNO, CA - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today that Fabio Cazares-Zamora, 37, of Modesto, and Abundio Hernandez, 45, of Oakland, were sentenced today by United States District Judge Oliver W. Wanger for heroin trafficking. Cazares-Zamora was...
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Indictments Unsealed Charging Four Block Gang Members And Others With Racketeering And Narcotics Conspiracies

ALBANY, NY. - Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division United States Drug Enforcement Administration John P. Gilbride and United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced the unsealing of two Indictments returned by a federal grand jury for the Northern District of New York in Albany, New...
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Two Houston Women Sentenced In East Texas Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

BEAUMONT, TX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas E. Hinojosa and U. S. Attorney John M. Bales announced that two Houston women involved in a major drug conspiracy in the Eastern District of Texas have been sentenced to federal prison today by U.S. District Judge Ron...
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Preston Man Sentenced For Conspiracy To Sell Methamphetamine

BOISE, ID - - Bart M. Pitcher, 54, of Preston, Idaho, was sentenced on May 26, 2011 to 144 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Pitcher pleaded guilty to the charge on March 2. According to the plea agreement, Pitcher...
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Federal Jury Convicts San Juan Man Of Drug Trafficking

McALLEN, TX - A McAllen jury convicted a San Juan resident of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute approximately 528 kilograms of marijuana, possession with intent to distribute marijuana and being a felon in possession of a firearm, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas E. Hinojosa...
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Mid-Michigan Drug Trafficker Gets Over 21 Years In Prison For Distributing More Than A Ton Of Marijuana

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, Donald A. Davis, announced today that Asante Parker, 32, of Lansing, Michigan, was sentenced to serve 262 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute 1,000 kilograms...
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Southern Indiana Indictments Charge Alleged Marijuana Traffickers

EVANSVILLE, IN. - - Joseph H. Hogsett, United States Attorney, announced today the culmination of a coordinated investigation into a large scale marijuana trafficking organization headed by lead defendant Freddie Joe Taylor of Vallonia, responsible for obtaining large quantities of the drug from sources in Texas, Arizona and Mexico, for...
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Drug Trafficker Sentenced To 60 Months In Federal Prison

PROVIDENCE, RI. - A Salem, Mass., man arrested while in possession of more than a kilogram of cocaine in November 2010 by DEA Drug Task Force members and Cranston Police, was sentenced Friday to 60 months in federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge William E. Smith, announced Steven W...
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New Haven Man Sentenced To More Than Seven Years In Federal Prison For Distributing Crack

NEW HAVEN, CT. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EDMUND JACKSON, SR., 54, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen...