United States Drug Enforcement Administration

SACRAMENTO, Calif . – A grand jury returned a superseding indictment on Thursday that added money laundering charges to six defendants first charged in 2017 in a scheme to use money from China to buy houses to grow marijuana, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. Charged with money laundering are...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut John H. Durham announced that Ismael Mangual, 43, of Bridgeport, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 137 months of...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut John H. Durham announced that a grand jury in Hartford has returned a four-count indictment charging John Matthews, also known as “Jay” and “Gotti,” 34, and Deandra...

BOSTON – A Dominican national residing in Lawrence was sentenced in federal court in Boston for distributing a mixture of fentanyl and heroin. Jorge Aguasvivas, 39, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani to 78 months in prison and four years of supervised release. The defendant will be...

WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. – A major arrest operation took place Wednesday morning in West Memphis where 22 were arrested as part of a federal drug investigation. Assistant Special Agent in Charge Justin King of the DEA Little Rock Field Office and United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A Madison County physician pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to charges related to illegally distributing and dispensing prescription drugs, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris and U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town. Dr. Rodney Morris, 64, pleaded guilty before a U.S. District...

SACRAMENTO, Calif . – A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment today against Arturo Zavaleta, 39, of Mexico, charging him with trafficking in heroin, methamphetamine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug crime, United States Attorney McGregor Scott announced. According to court documents, on June 3, 2019...

BOSTON – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy announced today that 14 people were arrested and arraigned in connection with a major heroin/fentanyl trafficking organization operating in Methuen and Lawrence, MA. During the investigation, authorities seized more than 25...

SEATTLE - Three members of an international drug trafficking organization were sentenced on June 18, 2019, in U.S. District Court in Seattle to prison terms ranging from 24 to 32 months for distributing more than a thousand kilograms of illegal marijuana. The defendants pleaded guilty in March 2019, admitting in...

DALLAS - The lead defendant in the Han Gil criminal case pleaded guilty today to gun and drug charges, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox. Eric Dewayne Freeman, aka “Stuff,” pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute a Schedule I...