United States Drug Enforcement Administration

DAYTON, Ohio – A federal indictment unsealed today charges seven people with engaging in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy in the Miami Valley and across southern and central Ohio. Benjamin C. Glassman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio and Timothy J. Plancon, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement...

(CINCINNATI) – Benjamin C. Glassman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio; Lamont Pugh III, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS OIG); Timothy J. Plancon, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine...

(NEW ORLEANS) - As a part of the largest Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action in Department of Justice history, the DEA and the Eastern District of Louisiana Strike Force announces charges against 11 individuals. In Baton Rouge, Louisiana the DEA and United States Attorney’s Office announced new charges against 26...

(BROOKLYN, N.Y.) - CVS Pharmacy, Inc. (“CVS”) has agreed to pay $1.5 million to resolve the United States’ investigation that certain of its pharmacy stores located in Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island violated the federal Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) by failing to timely report the loss or theft...

(MONTGOMERY, Ala.) - A Verbena, Alabama man, James Calvin Talley, Jr., 37, was sentenced to life in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, using a phone to facilitate a drug crime, and being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced Drug...

(DETROIT) – A Detroit man was sentenced yesterday to 30 years in prison for the January 2017 sale of fentanyl laced heroin that resulted in the death of a 36 year old Westland man, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider. Schneider was joined in the announcement by Special Agent in...

(MONTGOMERY, Ala.) - On Monday, June 11, 2018, a physician, Dr. Willie J. Chester, 65, of Pike Road, Alabama, pleaded guilty in the ongoing “pill mill prosecution” arising out of a now-closed Montgomery medical office, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Bret Hamilton and United States...

(HATTIESBURG, Miss.) - Juan Pablo Zamora Gomez, 32, of Modesto, California, pled guilty yesterday before a U.S. District U.S. District Judge to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Derryle Smith and U.S. Attorney...

(DETROIT) – An indictment was unsealed today charging three pharmacists, one doctor and two other individuals with conspiracy to illegally distribute prescription drugs, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today. Attorney General Jeff Sessions joined U.S. Attorney Schneider in the announcement, along with Michael Bouchard, Oakland County Sheriff, Special Agent in...

(JACKSON, Miss.) - Eleven individuals are facing federal drug charges in multiple indictments unsealed on Wednesday targeting a large, multi-state drug trafficking operation in East Central Mississippi, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Derryle Smith, U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Special Agent in Charge Jere T. Miles...