United States Drug Enforcement Administration

June 24, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 DETROIT - A former City of Detroit police officer was sentenced to prison today for leaking sensitive and confidential law enforcement information to a drug trafficker, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. McQuade was joined in the announcement by...

June 23, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 COVINGTON, Ky. - A Covington, Ky., man admitted in federal court today he sold heroin that resulted in a death. Timothy Tingle-Brown, 29, pleaded guilty today to causing the death of John Baum by distributing heroin before U.S. District Court...

June 04, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 DAYTON, OHIO - Julia Immaculata Lucente, 55 of Dayton, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to illegally prescribing oxycodone while she was a physician at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Dayton. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for...

June 04, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 CLEVELAND - A Federal grand jury returned a 53-count criminal indictment on June 3, 2014, which charged pharmacist Osama Salouha, 41, his wife Samah Salouha, 36, both of Strongsville, Ohio, and pharmacist Sbeih Sbeih, 45, of North Olmsted, Ohio, with...

May 29, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 COLUMBUS, Ohio - Terry Dragash, DO, 59, of Pataskala, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court, in Columbus, Ohio, to conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Kathy Enstrom, Special...

May 29, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 COLUMBUS, Ohio - Anthony D. Scott, 28, of Columbus was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 240 months in prison for distributing the heroin that led to the overdose death of a Columbus man in August 2013. Carter M...

May 29, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 COVINGTON, Ky. - On May 29, 2014, U.S. District Judge Amul Thapar sentenced 34-year-old Nicholas Sandlin to 151 months in prison and placed him on supervised release for life, after he completes his prison term. Sandlin admitted to conspiring with...

May 21, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 CINCINNATI - The owner of three southern Ohio pain clinics, Tracy Bias, 49, of West Portsmouth, Ohio, was sentenced to spend 168 months in prison, serve another ten years under court supervision, and ordered to forfeit $6,348,000. The specific dollar...

May 12, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 MAY (DETROIT) - Three individuals from metro-Detroit were convicted of violating various federal drug laws in a massive drug ring that trafficked hundreds of kilograms of heroin and cocaine, and thousands of pounds of marijuana in metro-Detroit, announced United States...

May 7, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 DETROIT - A ninety-year old man from Indiana was sentenced today to three years in federal prison for his role as a drug courier for a major cocaine trafficking organization with direct ties to the Joquin Guzman (a/k/a “Chapo” Guzman)...