United States Drug Enforcement Administration

COFFEE COUNTY, Ga - Vernon Keenan, Director of the Georgia Bureau of (GBI) and Robert J. Murphy, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Atlanta Division announce that the Southeastern Regional Drug Enforcement Office, along with the DDEA, the Douglas Coffee Drug Unit, the Douglas Police Department...

McALLEN, Texas - A federal jury sitting in McAllen has returned a guilty verdict against a former San Juan police officer for lying to federal agents, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. The jury deliberated for approximately two...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas - After a nearly three-month trial, a federal jury convicted the two highest ranking officers of the Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle (Bandidos)--National President Jeffrey Fay Pike and National Vice President Xavier Portillo--on federal racketeering and drug trafficking charges. That announcement was made today by United States Attorney John...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Two more members of a massive heroin and money laundering conspiracy have been ordered to federal prison, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Louie Molina, 36, and Jesus Leal Jr., 34, both of Robstown...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 25-year-old Corpus Christi resident and member of the Texas Mexican Mafia has been sentenced to federal prison on charges of sex trafficking of a child as well as firearms and drug trafficking charges, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division...

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...

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 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...

MACON, Ga. - Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Adrian Green, age 33, from Hawkinsville, GA, was sentenced on April 18, 2018 to 14 years confinement, consecutive to a previous 60-month sentence, in front of the Honorable Marc Thomas Treadwell in Macon...

SAVANNAH, Ga. - In the nation’s largest settlement of its kind involving allegations of drug diversion at a hospital, Effingham Health System has agreed to pay the United States $4.1 million to resolve allegations that Effingham Health System failed to provide effective controls and procedures to guard against theft and...