United States Drug Enforcement Administration

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Metin Metlu Sado, age 48, of Encinitas, California, was sentenced today to seven years in federal prison and ordered to pay a $9,900.00 fine on one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine, announced DEA Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Matthew Barden and Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the...

FORT SMITH, Ark. - Kenneth Goff, 45, of Kansas City, Missouri, was sentenced today to 160 months in federal prison on one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine. The sentencing decision was jointly by Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Matthew Barden and Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Today, a federal indictment was unsealed charging three Veterans (VA) employees with conspiring to steal prescription medications, including opioids, from the VA John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital in Little Rock, and conspiring to distribute those drugs. The superseding indictment, returned by a federal grand jury...

MONGOMERY, Ala. - Dr. Robert M. Ritchea, 54, of LaGrange, Georgia, pled guilty to conspiring to unlawfully distribute a controlled substance through operating a “pill mill” and money laundering scheme, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Bret Hamilton and United States Attorney George L. Beck, Jr. A “pill mill”...

MOBILE, Ala. - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) national touring exhibit, Drugs: Costs and Consequences, has arrived in Mobile, Alabama. The exhibit, developed by the DEA and the DEA Educational Foundation, opens on February 3, 2017, at the Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center. In this interactive exploration of the effects of...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Three defendants were sentenced to federal prison last week for drug trafficking, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Matthew Barden and Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas. Santiago (aka Chuco), age 47, of Commerce, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 151...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Paul Goston, age 40 of Little Rock, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 41 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release on one count of Felon in Possession of a Firearm announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Matthew Bardan and Kenneth Elser...

FORT SMITH, Ark. - A Fort Smith man, Richard David Hulsey, 46, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Matthew Barden and United States Attorney Kenneth Elser of the Western District of Arkansas...

OXFORD, Miss. - A member of the Aryan Brotherhood of (ABM) gang was sentenced to life in prison for his participation in a variety of violent criminal acts, including racketeering conspiracy, murder, kidnapping, conspiracy to possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute and other related offenses. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R...

SHREVPORT, LA - A Shreveport man was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison Tuesday for selling methamphetamine while staying at a Bossier City casino announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent-in-Charge Stephen G. Azzam and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley of the Western District of Louisiana. Kenvalleno Dixon, 33...