United States Drug Enforcement Administration

NOV 7 -- Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted 11 individuals in a multi-state drug conspiracy, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein. The indictment was returned on September 26, 2006 and unsealed today upon the arrests of the defendants. United States...

NOV 2 -- (WASHINGTON D.C.) – The Drug Enforcement Administration announced the arrest of 16 defendants, including Henry County Sheriff Harold Cassell, in the culmination of a five-year investigation into a major drug, weapons, and money laundering operation which also involved several current and former law enforcement officials. Four individuals...

(Washington, D.C.)- Mr. Michael J. Turner, Staff Coordinator for the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Demand Reduction Program will give two, 45-minute presentations to 800 students at Prince Edwards Middle School in Farmville, Virginia beginning at 2:15 p.m. on Friday, October 27th. Farmville is located 60 miles Southwest of Richmond. The presentations...

OCT 18--BALTIMORE, Maryland - Howard Rice, age 40, and Raeshio Rice, age 33, both of Baltimore, pleaded guilty in U.S. Court to racketeering conspiracy and drug conspiracy charges arising from their operation of a large narcotics-trafficking enterprise in Baltimore over a 10-year period, announced Assistant Special Agent in Charge for...

(Baltimore, Maryland) - A federal grand jury indicted the following defendants for conspiring to distribute, outside the scope of professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose, at least eight million dosage units of hydrocodone and conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with the distribution of hydrocodone, announced...

Carl J. Kotowski, Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, Baltimore District Office; Larry Harmel, Director of the Mid Atlantic Regional Community Policing Institute, Johns Hopkins University; and the DEA Quantico, VA, Office of Training will present a four-hour Meth Awareness Training program to local Police, EMS, Fire and...

Agents from the Shenandoah County Team of the Northwest Virginia Regional Drug Task Force and Drug Enforcement Administration arrested Saul Benitez-Garcia, 28, of 102 Williamson Road, Winchester, VA, in Strasburg, Virginia on September 15, 2006. Benitez-Garcia was subsequently charged with conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. Agents also seized $5,407 and...

(Alexandria, VA) - George Cornelius Day, age 32, formerly of Brandywine, Maryland, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Walter D. Kelly, Jr. to a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of crack cocaine and 5 kilograms or more...

SEP 12 -- The DEA and other federal law enforcement officials announced today that 28 people have been indicted on charges related to an intricate web of cocaine distribution rings in the northern section of Winchester City called the “Block.” “The success of this operation and the positive effect it...

BALTIMORE, Maryland - William “Billy” Wells, age 33, of Parkville, Maryland pled guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute five hundred grams or more of cocaine, announced Carl J. Kotowski, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Baltimore District office and United...