United States Drug Enforcement Administration

ST.LOUIS - The Executive Board of the Midwest HIDTA has recognized Omaha DEA's Task Force Tactical Diversion Squad with the 2013 Outstanding Prescription Drug Investigative Effort Award for 2013. This award is given to the initiative or group that exhibits outstanding investigative results in utilizing the cooperative spirit and tenets...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A federal jury has convicted Jaime Homero Guerrero of conspiracy to possess and possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge Stephen S. Whipple and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The jury returned its verdicts...

ST. LOUIS - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) St. Louis Division announced that Charles W. Scallion, 41, of Carbondale, Ill., was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton on a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. This announcement was also made by Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge James Shroba and United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, Tammy Dickinson, announced today that an Eldon, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for his role in a large-scale conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in the Cole...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge James Shroba and United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, Tammy Dickinson, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for her role in a conspiracy that was responsible for distributing hundreds of...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge James Shroba and United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, Tammy Dickinson announced today that 10 defendants have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute more than 2,200 pounds of...

HOUSTON - Javier F. Peña, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), Houston Division and Kenneth Magidson, United States Attorney, Southern District of Texas announced Oscar Nava-Valencia, 42, of Guadalajara, Mexico, has received a 25-year sentence for his role in the smuggling of a 3,100 kilogram...

McALLEN, Texas - Freddy Centeno, 52 of Brownsville, has been ordered to prison for money laundering for a convicted drug trafficker, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Centeno, a licensed real estate agent, pleaded guilty to a one-count criminal information...

PHOENIX - DEA Special Agent in-Charge Doug Coleman and U.S. Attorney John S. Leonardo, District of Arizona today announced that Michael Rocky Lane, 52, of Scottsdale, Ariz., was sentenced on Dec. 17, 2013 by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to 180 months' imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised...

McALLEN, Texas - - Martin Saucedo-Mata, 48, of Pharr, has been ordered to prison for 121 months for storing cocaine at his residence, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Saucedo-Mata pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute...