United States Drug Enforcement Administration

BEAUMONT, Texas - Amador Saldana, a 45-year-old Roma, Texas man has been sentenced to prison for federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced DEA Special Agent-in-Charge of the Houston Division, Joseph M. Arabit, and Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today. Mr. Saldana pled guilty on October...

CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged Deonte R. Dickey, 19 of Cincinnati with charges related to the distribution of fentanyl in an indictment returned here today. Specifically, Dickey is charged with six counts of distributing heroin and fentanyl - one count including an overdose death - and one...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Marco Antonio Ochoa, aka Alfredo Ochoa Valladares, was sentenced today to 132 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine announced DEA Special Agent-in-Charge John J. Martin and United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch. The sentence follows a...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge this week sentenced seven people from Jefferson, Walker, Marion, and Franklin counties for conspiring to traffic methamphetamine across northwest Alabama, announced DEA Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Bret Hamilton, and Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey. A U.S. District Court Judge on Monday sentenced Gladys Ivette...

LAREDO, Texas - Tim McCoy Barton, a 32-year-old Laredo man, was ordered today by visiting U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison to federal prison following his conviction of conspiracy with intent to distribute and possession with intent to distribute 15.7 kilograms of methamphetamine, announced DEA Special Agent-in-Charge of the Houston Division...

DENVER - The DEA-led Denver OCDETF Strike Force, including the Colorado U.S. Attorney’s Office, DEA and the Aurora Police Department, today arrested multiple defendants throughout Colorado and California on various drug related charges, the Justice Department announced. The arrests were the result of a one year investigation into the inner...

APR 20 - HARTFORD, 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, announced that Axel Pizarro, 41, of New Haven, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Today, U.S. District Court Judge Gordon J. Quist sentenced defendant Quintin Howell, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, to 15 years in prison. The sentencing concluded a multi-defendant joint investigation conducted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement (KVET), Michigan State Police’s Southwestern Enforcement (SWET), Federal Bureau...

APR 19 - 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, announced that Daniel Guillen, 28, of Wallingford, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to...

BEAUMONT, Texas - A 37-year-old Orange County, Texas man has been sentenced to prison for federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced DEA Special Agent-in-Charge of the Houston Division, Joseph M. Arabit and Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today. Kenneth Martin, Jr., was found guilty by...