United States Drug Enforcement Administration

WASHINGTON, D.C. - DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart today hailed the White House announcement of President Obama’s nomination of Special Agent Thomas Harrigan to serve as DEA Deputy Administrator. “I am extremely pleased by President Obama’s nomination of career DEA Special Agent Thomas M. Harrigan to be the next Deputy...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Acting Special Agent in Charge, Mark Thomas and United States Attorney Karen Loeffler announced today that a Wasilla man was indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage for drug conspiracy. The one-count indictment names Jory Kenneth Pritchett, 20, of Wasilla, Alaska, as the sole defendant. The...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart today hailed the White House announcement of President Obama’s intent to nominate Special Agent Thomas Harrigan to serve as DEA Deputy Administrator. “I am extremely pleased by President Obama’s intention to nominate career DEA Special Agent Thomas M. Harrigan to be the...

BOISE, IDAHO - Ten people were indicted in U.S. District Court in Boise, Idaho, on February 10, 2011, on numerous narcotics trafficking and firearms charges. According to the four separate indictments, which were unsealed today, the defendants are accused of conspiring together and with others to distribute controlled substances, including...

BOISE - - Acting Special Agent in Charge, Mark Thomas and U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced February 14, 2011, that Troy Daniel Sabrosky, 21, of Casper, Wyoming, was sentenced in federal court in Boise to 24 months in person for conspiracy to traffic oxycodone. Sabrosky was also ordered to...

NEW YORK, NY - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Administrator Michele M. Leonhart and Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the unsealing of charges against seven defendants for conspiring to provide various forms of support to DEA confidential sources whom they believed to be...

BOISE, IDAHO - A federal grand jury in Boise indicted 13 people on February 8, 2011, for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, employment of people under age 18 in drug operations, distributing methamphetamine, using a telephone to commit drug trafficking crimes, possession of controlled substances with intent to distribute, possession...

ANCHORAGE, AK. - - On February 10, 2011, Ricky Alan Reese, 52, of Anchorage, Alaska, was tried before United States District Judge H. Russel Holland. After deliberating two hours, a federal jury in Anchorage found Reese guilty of one count of drug trafficking conspiracy and one count of attempting to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the Department of the Treasury today announced the identification of The Lebanese Canadian Bank SAL together with its (LCB) as a financial institution of primary money laundering concern under Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT (Section 311) for the bank’s role...

BOISE, IDAHO - Mark Thomas, Acting Special Agent in Charge announced that James Toliver Latham, 23, and Ryan J. Simmons, 22, both of Twin Falls, Idaho, were sentenced this week for conspiracy to traffic oxycodone. Latham was sentenced to 48 months and Simmons to 30 months in federal prison. Both...