United States Drug Enforcement Administration

ATLANTA - Jerome Bushay has been sentenced to prison for trafficking more than 185,000 pills of (MDMA), methamphetamine, (which is a drug similar to ecstasy), and ketamine. Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Atlanta Field Division stated, "Ecstasy is anything but what its name implies...

FRESNO, Calif. - Raeb Chou, of Modesto, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to structure cash transactions and one count of structuring, and co-defendant Chantha A. Chim, of Murietta, pleaded guilty today to one count of structuring. According to court documents, Chou, Chim and co-conspirators obtained prescriptions for...

ATLANTA - Dwayne Penn, formerly a police officer with the Clayton County Police Department assigned to the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force, was sentenced today to ten years of prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine. Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Atlanta Field Division...

ATLANTA - Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in (SAC) of the Atlanta Field (AFD) of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), announced today that the DEA AFD is launching an anonymous statewide prescription drug texting tip line available to the public. SAC Sommers was joined by John Horn, First Assistant United...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Shiraz Malik, 36, a Pakistani national residing in Warsaw, Poland, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton to 15 years in prison for conspiring to distribute controlled substances and listed chemicals, conspiring to import controlled substances and ephedrine into the United States, and...

FRESNO, Calif. - Miguel Sanchez-(Sanchez), 46, of Mexico, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. According to court documents, Sanchez and...

FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment Thursday against Ronald Danny Ditlevson, 33, of Exeter, charging him with distributing oxycodone, also called oxycontin, Drug Enforcement Administration Jay Fitzpatrick and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. According to court documents, Ditlevson sold an undercover agent of...

FRESNO, Calif. - Sdey Chim, 37, of Modesto, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to structure cash transactions. According to court documents, Chim and co-conspirators obtained prescriptions for oxycodone and hydrocodone from a doctor in Visalia. After obtaining the prescriptions, co-conspirators filed the prescriptions at pharmacies in Fresno...

FRESNO, Calif.) - A marijuana cultivator was sentenced and one entered a guilty plea today for their involvement in separate large-scale marijuana cultivation cases involving private lands, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick and U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. 920 Marijuana Plants/Processed Marijuana/Assault Rifle Seized from...

FRESNO, Calif.) - Today, a Phoenix man was sentenced for growing marijuana in Madera County, and a Fresno man pleaded guilty to growing marijuana in Madera county, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Five Years Federal Prison for Gun...