United States Drug Enforcement Administration

BOSTON - The second of a pair of Cape Cod brothers was sentenced today for his role in a three-year, multi-million dollar oxycodone distribution conspiracy that flooded Cape Cod with highly addictive opiates. Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England; U.S. Attorney...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment today against Michael Deshone Mathews, 42, of Elk Grove; Earshell Hayes, 49, of Puyallup, Washington; Leon Currie Fields, Jr., 43, of Sacramento; and David William Dixon, 36, of Acampo, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration...

NEWARK, N.J. - - The Drug Enforcement Administration-New Jersey Division and the New York/New Jersey High Intensity Drug Trafficking (HIDTA) in conjunction with the Partnership for a Drug Free New Jersey and the Governor’s Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse are pleased to announce their sponsorship of a statewide Heroin...

ST. LOUIS - DEA St. Louis and federal, state, and local counterparts today announced 51 drug and weapons arrests aimed at the most violent heroin traffickers and criminal organizations in the St. Louis region. The 10-month effort was the first significant action of the St. Louis Heroin Initiative, a collection...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Phosavan Khamnivong a.k.a. “P.K.,” 34, of Anchorage, Alaska was sentenced today to 77 years’ imprisonment following his February 2015, convictions on drug trafficking conspiracy, two kidnapping charges, and two firearm charges. “Today, the violence, fear and intimidation utilized by this defendant stops,” said DEA Acting Special Agent...

PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia District Attorney R. Seth Williams and Special Agent in Charge Gary Tuggleof the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) today announced the results of a joint task force that led to the arrest of three suspects and the confiscation of $3.3 million of heroin - the biggest heroin bust...

WACO, Texas - In Waco today, a federal district judge sentenced 18 Aryan (AB) members and associates to federal prison for their roles in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division, Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Kevin Whitely, 33, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 84 months in prison for distributing marijuana and money laundering. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Joseph P. Reagan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Thomas Carr, also known as “Tommy Love,” 27, of New Haven, was sentenced by U.S. District...

NEW BERN, N.C. - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced Fabio Hirochi Inoue, - 40, of Anaheim, California, to 51 months in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess five...