United States Drug Enforcement Administration

ANCHORAGE, AK. - - Acting Special Agent in Charge, Mark Thomas announced that on January 19, 2011, Naron Celestine, a.k.a. “Cole”, 40, a resident of Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced to 188 months in prison for his participation in a conspiracy to distribute five kilograms of cocaine. According to information presented...

EUGENE, ORE - . - Suzan Dione, 40, of Eugene, Oregon, was sentenced January 12, 2011, to 24 months in prison for conspiracy to manufacture and distribute marijuana, psilocybin mushrooms, and Ecstasy, and for laundering money and structuring currency transactions. She also forfeited two homes and over $30,000. This sentencing...

BOISE - - Law enforcement officials from the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), the Nampa Police Department, the District of Idaho U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Canyon County Prosecutor’s Office announced that in the early morning hours of January 14, 2011, federal agents and local authorities from 10 law enforcement agencies...

BALTIMORE, MD. - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Todd Duncan, a/k/a Donnie, age 36, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 14 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to conduct and participate in the activities of the Black Guerilla (BGF), a racketeering enterprise. Earlier...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Monique Ware and her cousin, Gene Anderson, both 31, and both from Northeast Washington, were sentenced to prison terms on federal charges involving the sale of PCP, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police (MPD), and Ava A. Cooper-Davis...

HUNTINGTON, WV. - As a result of a long term investigation by the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the Huntington Police Department, a Mexican national was sentenced today to over 24 years in prison for his role in the distribution of black tar heroin. The distribution ring has been linked to...

IDAHO - Ricardo Rodriguez-Avila, 26, a Mexican national charged by two separate indictments, was sentenced on January 5, 2011, to serve 126 months in each case for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and illegal re-entry into the United States. The sentences will run concurrently. Rodriguez-Avila must also...

ANCHORAGE, AK - Daryl Hunter, 42, of Anchorage, Alaska was convicted and sentenced on January 12, 2011 in federal court for money laundering and maintaining a place for distribution of controlled substances. On January 12, 2011, Hunter pled guilty to 20 counts of money laundering and one count of maintaining...

SEATTLE, WASH - Michael J. Waddington, 24, of Silver Lake, Washington, was sentenced December 30, 2010, to ten years in prison and four years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and being armed with a firearm in connection with a drug crime. Waddington was arrested in June 2010...

SEP 11 -- (Baltimore, Maryland) - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Rahsean Holmes, age 30, today to 35 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit a commercial robbery, conspiracy to distribute narcotics, use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime...