United States Drug Enforcement Administration

COLUMBIA, SC. - South Carolina residents participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) second National Prescription Drug Take-Back event Saturday turned in 1,225 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This number was more than 2010’s total which...

BEAUMONT, TX - A 51-year-old Spring Hill, Florida man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas Hinojosa and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. Tony Darrell Fuzz pleaded guilty to possession with intent to...

PHILADELPHIA, PA. - Indictments were unsealed today upon the arrests of ten individuals named in separate cases stemming from a long-term investigation into drug dealing in and around Darby Township, PA that included the Third Street Boys Crack Cocaine (“TSBCCO”), announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger and Drug Enforcement...

PHILADELPHIA, PA. - Anthony Bui, 57, of Philadelphia, PA, and owner of Asian Fish, Inc., of Egg Harbor, New Jersey, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role in organizing and financing a network of high-tech, indoor, marijuana grow facilities stretching from Florida to Connecticut. Each of these...

ATLANTA, GA. - MARC BROTEMARKLE, 24, of Harrisburg, Missouri, and DEREK O’NEAL, 32, of Atlanta, Georgia, were sentenced to prison today by United States District Judge Thomas W. Thrash on charges of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana plants and possession of marijuana plants with intent to distribute. A co-defendant in the...

ALLENTOWN, PA. - Garrett Dudeck was charged today by information with conspiracy to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine, announced Zane David Memeger, United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. According to the information, on January 31, 2011 and February 10, 2011, Dudeck and Edward Shelton, charged...

STATESVILLE, NC. - Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina announced that Travis Donnell Knox, 34, of Statesville, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Statesville today to 188 months imprisonment for trafficking in “crack” cocaine. U.S. Attorney Tompkins is joined in making today’s announcement...

PITTSBURGH, PA. - The drug kingpin everyone called "Ali" in the Linmar section of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison last Thursday, but he's likely to get out early because of his cooperation against his underlings in the drug investigation and a related 2006 homicide. Senior...

CRYSTAL CITY, TX -- - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas E. Hinojosa and United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced that federal, state and local authorities have arrested 10 individuals in the Crystal City area on federal drug trafficking charges. Those arrested yesterday include: 24-year-old...

PHILADELPHIA, PA. - Keith Gidelson, a Philadelphia Police Detective, and 14 others were charged in a 17-count indictment, unsealed today, with conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Also named in the indictment are fellow police officers Joseph McIntyre and George Sambuca, Gidelson’s wife, Kirsten...