United States Drug Enforcement Administration

June 24, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has indicted 17 people in connection with a series of violent crimes including 12 unsolved murders as well as other attempted murders, drug trafficking, weapons trafficking, extortion and robbery. The defendants are accused...

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...

PHOENIX - On June 18, 2014, the final defendant was sentenced in connection with Operation Clean Green - a multi-year investigation conducted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and Internal Revenue Service. Hector Raul Ortiz-Tarazon, Sr. and his son, Hector Francisco Ortiz, Jr. ran a drug trafficking (DTO) that shipped...

TUCSON, Ariz. - U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA)Special Agent in Charge, Doug Coleman, today announced the seizure of 89 pounds of white heroin and the arrest of seven defendants as part of an 11-month investigation. The seizure marks one of the state’s largest heroin busts. The investigation coined, “Operation Smack Talk”...

PHOENIX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman today announced that o - n June 9, 2014, John Kweku Eshun, 52, of Ellenwood, Ga., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 41 months in prison. Eshun is the 12th and final defendant sentenced in...

PHOENIX - The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) unveiled a billboard in Phoenix, Arizona seeking information for the capture of Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro-Quintero - . The new reward is being offered by the U.S. Department of State under the Narcotics Reward Program for information leading to the arrest and/or...

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...