United States Drug Enforcement Administration

McALLEN, Texas - Two U.S. citizens who reside in South Texas have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute large amounts of cocaine and money laundering, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - - Kinmonte Markell Brown, 28, and Dennis Wells, 24, of Greenville, North Carolina, were sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence today for trafficking more than a dozen firearms from North Carolina into Providence between November 2014 and January 2015. Kinmonte Brown was sentenced to 84 months...

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 thatRussell Gordon, 32, of Ansonia, Connecticut, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to 13 years in prison and...

FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Carlos Gerardo Blanco, 25; Salvador Morales, 26; Jose Alejandro Jacobo, 23; Josefina Blanco, 23; Justin Alan Rivera, 20; and Henry Polin Morales III, 20 all residents of Bakersfield, charging them with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, United States...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - One defendant pleaded guilty today and two are sentenced for a plot that brought three Florida men to Yuba City where they robbed marijuana traffickers at gunpoint, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin announced. Clorenzo Griffin...

PHILADELPHIA - Staff from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Philadelphia Field (PFD) distributed approximately 60 winter coats to the students of the Potter-Thomas Elementary School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Investigative (IA) Paula Martinez has organized this coat drive, as well as Red Ribbon Week activities, at the Potter-Thomas school for the past...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt and Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Adel Abdullah, 32, of Lackawanna, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, controlled substance analogues, before Senior...

LAFAYETTE, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge Eric Watson and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that 12 people were indicted Wednesday in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy in Lafayette and the surrounding areas. Those named in the 15-count indictment are: Jeremy David Hamlett, 37...

Cape May Court House, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Cape May County Prosecutor Robert L. Taylor and Lower Township Police Chief William Mastriana announce the arrest of two individuals, John Matthews, 26 and Nick Alexander, 24 both...

MARQUETTE, Mich. - Richard Jon Hill, age 39, known in the Ironwood, Michigan area as “Rock Star Rick,” was sentenced to 180 months in federal prison for his conviction on federal drug charges. The sentence represents the culmination of a two-year investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the...