United States Drug Enforcement Administration

Acting Special Agent In Charge Thomas Hinojosa will be participating in a National Prescription Take Back Press Conference, April 27, 2011 at 2:30 p.m., at the DEA Houston Field Office, located at 1433 West Loop South, in the 1 st floor training room. He, along with invited guest Harris County...

BENTON, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on April 22, 2011, a Centralia, Illinois, man, convicted of various crack cocaine charges, was sentenced to 180 (15 years), in federal prison. Frederick L. Webster, 49, of Centralia, Illinois, previously pleaded...

DALLAS, TX - Nine defendants, who are charged in a federal indictment with running a crack cocaine distribution conspiracy since 2009 in Terrell, Texas, were arrested today in an operation led by the Terrell Police Department and the Drug Enforcement (DEA). All those arrested are scheduled to make their initial...

SULLIVAN CITY, TX - Former Sullivan City Police Chief Hernan Guerra has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison without parole for drug-trafficking, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas Hinojosa and United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. United States District Judge Randy Crane sentenced...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL - . - Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois announced that a federal grand jury sitting in East St. Louis, has returned a 29 count indictment charging 23 individuals with being members of a large cocaine distribution organization. The indictment...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL - . - A Centralia, Illinois, man, convicted of distributing crack cocaine, was sentenced to 120 (10 years), in federal prison on March 24, 2011, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. James M. Strowder, 21, of Centralia...

JEFFERSON CITY, MO. - Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man has been convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana in Boone County, Mo. Eric Scott McCauley, 29, of Columbia, was found...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on February 25, 2011, Raul R. Teran , age 27, of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced to 121 months in federal prison for his participation in a marijuana distribution ring. In addition...

BENTON, IL - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Ray M. Cross of Dalgren, Ill., plead guilty on February 25, 2010, in United States District Court at Benton, Ill., to a one count indictment charging him with possession of a...

DALLAS, TX - Federal, state, and local law enforcement officials have joined forces in a series of coordinated strikes against Mexican drug cartels and their associates who operate across the United States. Operations in Central America, Colombia, and Brazil are also ongoing. DEA and its law enforcement counterparts have mobilized...