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...

WASHINGTON - After collecting and destroying 5.5 million pounds-2,762 tons-of unused prescription drugs in the past five years, the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) is continuing its efforts to take back unused, unwanted and expired prescription medications. The DEA invites the public to bring their potentially dangerous, unwanted medicines to one...

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...

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...

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...

GREENVILLE, N.C. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court yesterday Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard, sentenced Claude King, - 42, of Wilson, North Carolina, to 171 months’ imprisonment followed by five years’ supervised release. On September...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose announced today that the leader of a drug trafficking conspiracy was sentenced to 135 months in prison. U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. also ordered Laurentino Benitez, 45, of Huntersville, N.C., to serve four years under court supervision after he is...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On March 14, 2016, Tito Charles, 30, of Greeneville, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 15 years in federal prison by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge. Upon his release from prison, Charles will be supervised for 10 years by U.S. Probation. Charles pleaded guilty to...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. today sentenced Jamie Lynn Swartz, 36, formerly of Sylva, N.C. to serve 70 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release on drug conspiracy charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina...