DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Mid-Michigan Drug Trafficker Gets Over 21 Years In Prison For Distributing More Than A Ton Of Marijuana

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, Donald A. Davis, announced today that Asante Parker, 32, of Lansing, Michigan, was sentenced to serve 262 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute 1,000 kilograms...
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Head Of Western Kentucky Meth Conspiracy Sentenced To 10 Years Fed Time For Distribution And Money Laundering

OWENSBORO, KY - David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky announced today that the last two defendants in a Henderson County drug conspiracy have been sentenced in United States District Court. The sentencing of Lewis Smithhart and William Coomes, both of Henderson, Kentucky, brings to...
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Final Defendant Sentenced In 100 Kilo Crack Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy In Kentucky

PADUCAH, KY - David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky, announced today that Dwayne Michael Joseph was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. The sentencing of Joseph by U.S. District Chief Judge Thomas B. Russell, brings to conclusion...
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Four Ohio Physicians Lose Licenses To Prescribe Controlled Substances

CINCINNATI, OH - The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Robert L. Corso announced today the immediate suspensions of the DEA Certificate of Registration for four physicians and a pharmacy operating in Scioto County, Ohio. The DEA served Immediate Suspension (ISO) on physicians Margy Temponeras, John Temponeras, Mark...
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Jury Convicts Physician Of Illegally Prescribing Pills That Led To Deaths Of Four People

CINCINNATI, OH - A United States District Court jury convicted Dr. Paul H. Volkman of illegally prescribing and dispensing millions of pain pills outside the scope of a legitimate medical practice which resulted in the deaths of four people between 2003 and 2005. He faces at least 20 years in...
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Floridian Fuzz Guilty Of Hauling Cocaine Through East Texas

BEAUMONT, TX - A 51-year-old Spring Hill, Florida man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas Hinojosa and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. Tony Darrell Fuzz pleaded guilty to possession with intent to...
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Operator Of Clandestine Steroid Lab In Compton Sentenced To Three Years In Federal Prison

LOS ANGELES, CA - A man who manufactured anabolic steroids at a clandestine laboratory in Compton - one of the largest underground steroid labs ever found in the United States - and distributed the steroids via the Internet, was sentenced today to three years in federal prison. Warren Abramson, 33...
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DEA M.E.T. – Long Beach P.D. Operation Nets Drugs, Guns And Criminals

LOS ANGELES, CA - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Mobile Enforcement (M.E.T.) and the Long Beach Police Department’s Drug Investigations Section joined forces and conducted a three-month operation that resulted in the removal of numerous criminals from the streets of Long Beach, as well as the seizure of guns, drugs, and...
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Seventeen Defendants Sentenced In Large Kentucky Crack Cocaine Distribution Ring

PADUCAH, KY - - David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky and Robert L. Corso, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), announced today that U.S. District Judge Thomas B. Russell sentenced two Hopkinsville, Kentucky men to life in prison without the...
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Ten Arrests Made In Connection With Alleged Crystal City Cocaine And Heroin Trafficking

CRYSTAL CITY, TX -- - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas E. Hinojosa and United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced that federal, state and local authorities have arrested 10 individuals in the Crystal City area on federal drug trafficking charges. Those arrested yesterday include: 24-year-old...