United States Drug Enforcement Administration

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney R. Andrew Murray announced today that Montorio Darell Allison, 38, of Concord, N.C. was sentenced to 132 months in prison on drug trafficking charges. U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. also ordered Allison to serve 10 years under court supervision after he is released...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced Richard Arlee Champion, 31, of Atlanta, Georgia, to 262 months in prison, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Reidinger also ordered Champion to serve 10 years under court supervision after he is...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney R. Andrew Murray announced today the distribution of $730,296 in federally-forfeited funds to state and local law enforcement agencies, resulting from a forfeiture action against convicted drug trafficker James Alexander Brown. The Justice Department recovered more than $1 million from Brown, of which 80 percent...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez sentenced Gordon Owen Miller, 60, of Clayton, to 20 years in prison for methamphetamine trafficking, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen announced. On February 7, 2018, after a five-day trial, a federal...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Today, just as trial was set to begin, Martin Gasca-Rojas, 49, of Mexico, pleaded guilty to three counts of distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen announced. According to court documents, between October 2016 and May 2017...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division, announced today that Demetrius Black, 41, of Buffalo, New York, pleaded guilty before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to conspiracy to possess with intent...

MIDLAND, Texas United States District Judge David Counts sentenced 27-year-old Kenneth James Barfield yesterday to 30 years in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash; Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Kyle Williamson; and Midland Interim Police Chief Seth Herman. On January 10, 2018...

NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police (“NYPD”), George P. Beach...

NEW YORK - Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo, James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York...

SAN FRANCISCO - Peyton Erwin Eidson was sentenced this morning to 36 months in prison for aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to distribute marijuana, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse, Special Agent in Charge Matthew Perlman of the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service San Francisco Field Office...