United States Drug Enforcement Administration

FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Carlos Gerardo Blanco, 25; Salvador Morales, 26; Jose Alejandro Jacobo, 23; Josefina Blanco, 23; Justin Alan Rivera, 20; and Henry Polin Morales III, 20 all residents of Bakersfield, charging them with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, United States...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - One defendant pleaded guilty today and two are sentenced for a plot that brought three Florida men to Yuba City where they robbed marijuana traffickers at gunpoint, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin announced. Clorenzo Griffin...

FRESNO, Calif. - Three Bakersfield men were sentenced in two separate cases on Monday by United States District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill for conspiracies to traffic marijuana and methamphetamine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin announced. In the first...

SAN FRANCISCO - - Seventeen defendants were named in a federal criminal complaint alleging a criminal conspiracy to traffic heroin announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin, and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Acting Special Agent in Charge Andrew...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - -Patricia Jane Albright, 64, of Nevada City, was sentenced by United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley to five years and five months in prison for conspiring to manufacture marijuana, manufacturing marijuana, and structuring currency transactions to evade federal reporting requirements. On July 21, 2015, Albright pleaded...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - -Today, United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley sentenced DuWayne LeDoux, 55, of Kodiak, Alaska, to seven years in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and conspiracy to structure cash deposits, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge...

STATESVILLE, N.C. - Nine methamphetamine traffickers have been sentenced over a two-day period to prison terms ranging from one to 17.5 years, as a result of two related Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task (OCDETF) investigations, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. Attorney...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Nov. 30, 2015, Daniel Guy Bickley, 56, of Bristol, Va., was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 24 months in federal prison. Bickley was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release after his prison term and forfeit...

OAKLAND, Calif. - -A federal grand jury indicted thirteen defendants for conducting a state-wide conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and the distribution of controlled substances, announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin, and Department of Treasury...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - - Damacio Diaz, 43, of McFarland, a detective with the Bakersfield Police (BPD) was arrested today, charged with abusing his position of trust as a police detective when he conspired with and assisted a narcotics dealer in the operation of the dealer’s drug organization, announced United States...