United States Drug Enforcement Administration

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On February 19, 2015, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 25 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances in the municipality of Yauco, PR, announced Vito S. Guarino, Special Agent in (SAC)...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Kim Duron Mulder, 55, formerly of Grand Rapids, and Charles Wayne Brooks, 63, of Alma, entered guilty pleas today before United States District Judge Robert J. Jonker on charges related to the illegal restocking and re-dispensing of recycled drugs at Kentwood Pharmacy. Mr. Mulder, formerly the...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The Coast Guard Cutter Key Largo and a U.S. naval vessel with a Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment onboard apprehended a Russian smuggler and intercepted 1,729 pounds of marijuana aboard a Finnish-flagged sailing vessel in the Caribbean Sea Saturday, approximately 130 nautical miles south of...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - On February 13th, 2015, an Akron physician was sentenced to 10 years in prison for illegally prescribing hundreds of thousands of doses of painkillers and other pills to customers for no legitimate medical purpose. These illegal prescribing patterns occurred even after at least eight customers died from...

DETROIT - Two physicians who practiced in Warren, Michigan, pleaded guilty today to writing prescriptions for oxycodone without medical justification, and one also pleaded guilty to health care fraud, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. McQuade was joined in the announcement by U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Drug Enforcement (DEA), Coast Guard, U.S. Customs and Border (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’(ICE) Homeland Security (HSI) seized a 989 (2,176 pounds) cocaine shipment and apprehended 13 men following an at-sea interdiction Tuesday, February 3rd, of a delivery vessel and coastal freighter, approximately...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today that Francis Block, 45, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, was sentenced to life in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney for various drug and witness tampering charges. Block was convicted following a four-day jury trial that concluded on October 2...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Kentucky physician was charged today by a federal grand jury with prescribing pain medications that resulted in the deaths of five patients. He was also charged with health care fraud and unlawful distribution or dispensing of controlled substances. The charges were jointly announced by Acting U.S...

CLEVELAND - A California man was sentenced to more than 22 years in federal prison for cocaine trafficking. Dwight Erwin Herrera, 40, was convicted by a jury in November of conspiracy to distribute and distribution of cocaine greater than five kilograms. Herrera and others were arrested in Cleveland on December...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On January 15, 2015, defendant Javier Carrillo was arrested upon his arrival to the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport from the Dominican Republic. Carrillo supplied multi-kilogram loads of cocaine to the group of 10 defendants indicted on July 16, 2014, operation Voodoo Sam II, by...