United States Drug Enforcement Administration

ORLANDO, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC), Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces today that a federal jury found Lander Carlton (39, Melbourne) guilty of possession with intent to distribute cocaine...

VERO BEACH, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC), Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Deryl Loar, Sheriff, Indian River County Sheriff’s Office, announce the arrest of five Vero Beach residents: Edward McElhenny, 50, Clinton...

MACON, Ga. - Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia announced that Bacari McCarthren, 37, of Orlando, Florida, was sentenced on July 31, 2013 by Senior U.S. District Judge Hugh Lawson in Valdosta, Georgia, to 240 months imprisonment, to be followed by (3) years supervised...

PHOENIX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman announced today that the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets (OFAC) reported the designation of three individuals and three entities linked to Ismael Zambada Garcia, one of the principal leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel. Those designated...

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...

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...

TRENTON, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a doctor who admitted writing illegal prescriptions for oxycodone was sentenced today to 57 months...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On July 25, 2013, a grand jury returned two additional drug conspiracy indictments stemming from the same investigation that resulted in charges against numerous members of an Anchorage based rap group back in August of 2012. That indictment alleged a conspiracy to distribute over 50 kilograms of...

EUGENE, Ore. - Juan Jesus Chavez-Salazar, 26, of Lane County, Oregon, was sentenced on July 23, 2013, to 168 months in prison for conspiracy to possess and distribute methamphetamine. Upon his release from prison, he will be placed on supervised release for five years. Chavez-Salazar and his associates were the...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Denis Williams, also known as “Blanco,” 33, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior United...