United States Drug Enforcement Administration

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that William Hines, also known as "Gunz," 30, of Hamden, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge...

MAR (ATLANTA) - Jason Cole Votrobek and Roland Rafael Castellanos have been convicted after a month-long jury trial on federal drug and money laundering charges for owning and operating a “pill mill” pain clinic which served as a front for the mass distribution of addictive pain killers. Votrobek had previously...

ATLANTA - Adrian Banks has been arraigned on federal charges relating to the manufacture of PCP which led to a dangerous house fire when the clandestine laboratory exploded. Coleman Warnock, a second defendant named in the indictment, is being sought by law enforcement. Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Ashley Gries, 19, of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania; Danny Guy Forrester, 48, of Shippensburg; Gabriel John Stouffer, 30, of Newburg, Pennsylvania; Michael Anthony DeCarlo, 31, of Shippensburg; and Jeffrey Lynn Wright, Jr., 31, of Shippensburg, have...

NEW HAVEN Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Robert Lee, also known as "B.O.," 36, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge...

FRESNO, Calif.) - Marijuana cultivators from Fresno and Stanislaus Counties entered guilty pleas today in three cases and sentenced in two for their involvement in separate large-scale marijuana cultivation operations. Fresno Man Pleads Guilty in River Marijuana (1:12CR342 AWI) - Sam Kounhavong, 51, of Fresno, Calif., also entered a guilty...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Victor Sena, aka "V," 35, of Cranston, R.I., was ordered detained in federal custody today by U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Lincoln D. Almond, having been charged with possession of fentanyl with the intent to distribute, announced John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug...

TRENTON - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced that six alleged members of a drug ring were indicted today on first-degree charges for allegedly operating a heroin mill and distributing large quantities of...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ruben Rivera was sentenced on March 13, 2014, to 41 months in prison for attempting to transport monetary instruments for the purpose of laundering proceeds of heroin distribution. Rivera pleaded guilty on Oct. 4, 2013, to violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(2)(B). According to the plea agreement...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch announced today that following a two-week trial, a federal jury convicted Richard Riccardi, 41, of Manalapan, N.J., and Louis Grasso, 46, of Staten Island, N.Y., of the robbery and murder of James Donovan on July 2, 2010. The defendants face a minimum...