DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Gang Leader Sentenced To 50 Years For Prescription Drug Trafficking

SPOKANE, Wash. - Arvin Terrill Carmen, 39, of Los Angeles, California, and Spokane, Washington, was sentenced to 50 years in prison following a five-week jury trial. Carmen was found guilty of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to distribute oxycodone, and possession with intent to distribute oxycodone. In addition...
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Sunnyside Man Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Drug Trafficking And Being An Illegal Alien In Possession Of Ammunition

SPOKANE, Wash. - Omar Alarcon Fuentes, 37, of Sunnyside, Washington, was sentenced on July 2, 2015, for distributing 50 grams or more of pure methamphetamine, and being an illegal alien in possession of ammunition. In the methamphetamine case, Fuentes was sentenced to a ten year term of imprisonment and a...
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Leader Of Large Prescription Drug Trafficking Ring Sentenced To 15 Years In Federal Prison

LONDON, Ky. - The leader of a large-scale drug trafficking organization, which brought prescription drugs from Mexico to eastern Kentucky and northern Tennessee for nearly 15 years, has been sentenced to 180 months in federal prison. On July 2nd, 2015, U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove sentenced 60 year-old...
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Anchorage Man Sentenced To 18 Years In Prison For Drug Death Of 14 Year Old Girl

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sean Michael Warner, 29, was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for one count of distribution of heroin on June 29, 2015. Warner previously pleaded guilty on September 2, 2014 to distributing heroin. At that hearing, Warner admitted to personally injecting a 14-year-old minor with heroin...
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Puyallup Man Sentenced To Two Years In Prison For Hash Oil Blast

SEATTLE - A Puyallup man responsible for making hash oil for an illegal marijuana edible operation was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 24 months in prison and three years’ supervised release. Seth M. Cleek, 22, was using highly flammable butane gas to make hash oil on...
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Twenty Members Of Violent Central Ohio Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced In Federal Court

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Twenty people that were involved in a large scale drug trafficking organization in Central Ohio, were sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Joseph P. Reagan, Special Agent in Charge, of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA)...
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Kentucky Physician Charged With Prescribing Pain Medications That Resulted In The Deaths Of Five Patients

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Acting United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr., announced today that a physician charged with prescribing pain medications that resulted in the deaths of five patients, unlawful distribution or dispensing of controlled substances and health care fraud, now faces the additional charges of conspiracy, money laundering and...
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Former Kentucky Physician Charged With Conspiracy To Dispense Controlled Substances

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - Acting U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr. today announced the indictment of former Warren County, Kentucky, physician Charles Fred Gott. Gott was indicted on charges of conspiracy to distribute and dispense controlled substances during the course of his professional practice that were not for a legitimate...
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Columbus, Ohio Man Sentenced For Role In Large Marijuana Distribution Ring

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Kevin Whitely, 33, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 84 months in prison for distributing marijuana and money laundering. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Joseph P. Reagan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement...
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77-Year Sentence Imposed On Anchorage Man For Drug Trafficking, Kidnapping, And Using Firearms In Furtherance Of Those Crimes

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Phosavan Khamnivong a.k.a. “P.K.,” 34, of Anchorage, Alaska was sentenced today to 77 years’ imprisonment following his February 2015, convictions on drug trafficking conspiracy, two kidnapping charges, and two firearm charges. “Today, the violence, fear and intimidation utilized by this defendant stops,” said DEA Acting Special Agent...