United States Drug Enforcement Administration

BEAUMONT, TX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge Thomas E. Hinojosa and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced that two Houston men have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a major drug trafficking conspiracy. The sentencing hearings were held by U.S. District Judge Ron...

BALTIMORE, MD. - On June 21, 2011, U.S. District Judge Benson Everett Legg sentenced April Lynn Baker, age 30, of Greencastle, Pennsylvania, formerly of Clear Spring, Maryland, to three years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute, and distributing, morphine and methadone, the use...

BALTIMORE, MD. - On June 21, 2011, U.S. District Judge Benson E. Legg sentenced Kevin Jenkins, a/k/a “Mud,”, age 46, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 160 months in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute drugs in the Gilmor Homes public housing complex in Baltimore. Judge...

GREENBELT, MD - . -- Chief U.S. District Judge Deborah Chasanow sentenced Paulo Rio-Corrales, age 46, of Pomona, California, today to 11 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute kilogram quantities of heroin and cocaine, as well...

BEAUMONT, TX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge Thomas E. Hinojosa and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced that three Houston men have been sentenced to federal prison today by U.S. District Judge Ron Clark in the Eastern District of Texas. Jesus Pineda-Espinoza, 30, pleaded guilty on...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Three people from Maryland have been arrested and indicted in connection with an ongoing Drug Enforcement (DEA) investigation into the 2008 murder of a DEA confidential informant, announced Ava A. Cooper-Davis, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s Washington Division Office and U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen...

BEAUMONT, TX - A 51-year-old Richmond, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for knowing about a major drug conspiracy in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas E. Hinojosa and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales. Alberto Pineda-Goicochea pleaded guilty on...

BALTIMORE, MD. - A federal grand jury has indicted Dr. Joffre Erwin Robalino, 43, of Columbia, Maryland, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone. The indictment was returned on June 1, 2011, and unsealed yesterday at Dr. Robalino’s initial appearance. Dr. Robalino was arrested last night...

BEAUMONT, TX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas E. Hinojosa and U. S. Attorney John M. Bales announced that two Houston women involved in a major drug conspiracy in the Eastern District of Texas have been sentenced to federal prison today by U.S. District Judge Ron...

McALLEN, TX - A McAllen jury convicted a San Juan resident of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute approximately 528 kilograms of marijuana, possession with intent to distribute marijuana and being a felon in possession of a firearm, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas E. Hinojosa...