United States Drug Enforcement Administration

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Gennaro DiMatteo, 43, of South Lake Tahoe, California, was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison today by United States District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller. DiMatteo had...

AUSTIN, Texas - Federal, state and local authorities have arrested 37 individuals in connection with two related drug trafficking conspiracies based in Austin announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Javier Pena, United States Attorney Robert Pitman, and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez. A...

Date: April 10, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 LONDON, Ky. - A Barbourville, Kentucky man was arrested today pursuant to a federal indictment that accuses him of growing a large number of marijuana plants and illegally possessing firearms. Leslie Monroe, 52, was charged Wednesday, March 28, 2013...

APRIL 09 - ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On April 8, 2013, Derneval Rodnell Dimmer, 36, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 228 months in prison for his involvement in two separate cocaine investigations. The court also imposed a ten-year period of supervised release that will follow the nineteen-year prison term...

PHOENIX - Robert Gene White, 45, of Chandler, Ariz. was found guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana and less than 500 grams of cocaine, conspiracy to commit money laundering and three counts of transactional money laundering. Nadunt Chibeast, 61, of Tempe...

WASHINGTON - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets (“OFAC”) today announced the designation of Honduran national Jose Miguel Handal (a.k.a. “Chepe Handal”), as a Specially Designated Narcotics (“SDNT”) pursuant to the Foreign...

(NEW HAVEN, Conn.) - John J. Arvanitis, 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 Joshuwa Diaz, also known as “Fot,” 22, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior United States...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Tony Le, 55, Minh Le, 36, and Cuong Le, 43, all of Sacramento were sentenced today by United States District Judge William B. Shubb for their involvement...

FRESNO, Calif. - Sergio Hector Aguilar, 46, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine while under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office for a 1997 methamphetamine conviction, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James T. Hayes, Jr., the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of...