United States Drug Enforcement Administration

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - On December 10, 2014, a federal grand jury indicted 16 individuals for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy that brought heroin into Youngstown, Ohio. An additional 37 people were charged in state court for violations related to the heroin trafficking. The indictments were announced by Steven...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - A federal grand jury returned an Indictment charging nine defendants with federal conspiracy for their alleged roles in supplying and distributing heroin in Benton Harbor, Michigan, U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today. A joint investigation led by the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Federal Bureau of Investigation...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has indicted three more people in connection with a series of violent crimes including 13 unsolved murders as well as other attempted murders, drug trafficking, weapons trafficking, extortion and robbery. The addition to the indictment includes an additional 23 felonies, including one murder...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - An Akron physician pleaded guilty to illegally prescribing hundreds of thousands of doses of painkillers and other pills to customers for no legitimate medical purpose, even after he learned some customers had died from overdose-related deaths, law enforcement officials said. Adolph Harper, Jr., 64, pleaded guilty to...

DETROIT - Two individuals from metro-Detroit were sentenced today to life in prison after having been 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 Attorney Barbara...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell sentenced Mohamad Abduljaber, 50, of Okemos, Michigan to three and a half years of imprisonment on charges of receipt of health care kickback payments and falsifying an income tax return, U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today. The convictions arise from...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - An investigation by federal, state and local law enforcement in Central Ohio has led to the arrest of 13 people on charges of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of...

LEXINGTON, Ky. - A former Lexington attorney was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for distribution of synthetic marijuana, wire fraud, mail fraud, tax fraud, and obstruction of justice. U.S. Senior District Court Judge Joseph M. Hood sentenced 35year-old Seth J. Johnston and ordered him to serve three years...

EL PASO, Texas - Twenty-three individuals have been arrested in El Paso for prescription fraud-related offenses, announced Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) El Paso Field Division, Regional Commander Carey Matthews of the Texas Department of Public (DPS) and 34th Judicial District (DA) Jaime...

EL PASO, Texas - In El Paso, 29-year-old Rigoberto Ruiz-Alatorre, an admitted drug trafficker and former bodyguard for Sinaloa narcotrafficker Gabino Salas-(aka “El Ingeniero”), was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison and fined $5,000 for murdering a member of his drug trafficking organization announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman...