United States Drug Enforcement Administration

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sean Michael Warner, 29, was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for one count of distribution of heroin on June 29, 2015. Warner previously pleaded guilty on September 2, 2014 to distributing heroin. At that hearing, Warner admitted to personally injecting a 14-year-old minor with heroin...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Joseph Shepherd and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that two men were sentenced for their roles in a cocaine and methamphetamine distribution ring operating in Caddo and Bossier parishes. Eugene O’Neal Cross, 40, of Marshall, Texas...

TAMPA, Fla. - A.D. Wright, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces the filing of a criminal complaint charging Jesus Casteyano, a/k/a Jesus Castellano, a/k/a Jesus Castellano-(53, Bradenton), with conspiracy to possess...

LAREDO, Texas - A total of four drug traffickers have been sentenced for their convictions related to a drug trafficking conspiracy involving methamphetamine and heroin, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Santos Arturo Ortiz, 28, Armando Bautista Jr...

LONDON, Ky. - The leader of a large-scale drug trafficking organization, which brought prescription drugs from Mexico to eastern Kentucky and northern Tennessee for nearly 15 years, has been sentenced to 180 months in federal prison. On July 2nd, 2015, U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove sentenced 60 year-old...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, a total of 12 members and associates of the Bloods street gang located in Queens, New York, including Covel Duncan, a New York State Corrections Officer at Riker’s Island, were arrested on narcotics trafficking charges. The defendants’ initial appearances are scheduled this afternoon before United...

WACO, Texas - A federal district judge sentenced four 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 Federal Bureau of...

PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced thatMarco Gordon, 34, of Portland and Detroit, Michigan, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to conspiring to distribute 28 grams or more...

CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced that Todd Burke, 52, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was sentenced today to 28 months in prison by the United States District Court. The court’s sentence...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Joel Perrin Robinson has been sentenced to eight years in prison for shooting a DEA special agent serving a search warrant at Robinson's house. Agents had obtained the warrant to search his home for chemicals used to manufacture PCP. “This investigation is a reminder of the dangers...