United States Drug Enforcement Administration

NASHVILLE - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Nashville District Office is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold its 11th state-wide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, April 30, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time. This one-day...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Santiago Sanchez, 39, of Mexico, was sentenced today to 210 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for trafficking large quantities of crystal methamphetamine, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Sanchez pleaded guilty in December 2015 to...

ATLANTA - G.F. Peterman, III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Holly Hogue Edwards, age 36, an attorney from Macon, Georgia, today entered a guilty plea to distribution of oxycodone and methamphetamine before the Honorable Marc T. Treadwell, United States District Judge, in Macon...

WASHINGTON - Special Agent in (SAC) Karl C. Colder of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Washington Division announced today that the DEA will be hosting a Prescription Drug Awareness (PDAC) in Towson, Maryland. The PDAC is a part of DEA’s 360 Strategy, an overall approach to combating opioid and heroin abuse...

GREENBELT, Md. - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Deon Thornton, age 32, of Suitland, Maryland, today to eight years in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for distribution of crack cocaine and for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The sentence was announced by...

BALTIMORE - A federal criminal complaint has been filed charging four individuals for a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. The criminal complaint was filed this afternoon, following the defendants’ arrests on Friday evening, April 8, 2016. Charged in the criminal complaint are: Hector M. Hernandez-Villapando, age 63...

STATESVILLE, N.C. - One of the leaders and seven co-conspirators of a major drug ring responsible for trafficking more than 450 kilograms of cocaine to Western North Carolina and funneling millions in drug proceeds back to Mexico were sentenced earlier this week, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the...

HARRISONBURG, Va. - A Maryland man, who authorities said was responsible for selling heroin that led to at least six overdoses in the Winchester, Virginia, area, three of which were fatal, was sentenced today in federal court. Christopher Rojuan Giles, a.k.a. “C” and “Charlie,” 28, of Randallstown, Maryland, previously pleaded...

BALTIMORE - Walter Moffett, age 51, of Chestertown, Maryland pleaded guilty today to his participation in a drug conspiracy in connection with the operation of purported pain management clinics that were actually “pill mills.” Eight co-conspirators previously pleaded guilty to the same charge. The guilty plea was announced by Special...

RALEIGH, N.C. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, sentenced Dupree Turner, 29, of Wilson, North Carolina, to a total of 130 months in prison and five years of supervised released...