United States Drug Enforcement Administration

ORLANDO, Fla. - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. yesterday sentenced Kesner (53, Lakeland) to ten years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Joly pleaded guilty on September 3, 2014. According to court documents, Joly was a kilogram-level cocaine distributor in the central Florida area. On multiple...

ORLANDO, Fla. - U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp sentenced Justin Brian (28, Orlando) yesterday to 12 years and 7 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute Methylone. He pleaded guilty on July 7, 2014. Six additional members of the drug trafficking ring previously pleaded guilty and were also...

TAMPA, Fla. - A.D. Wright, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney announces that a federal jury has found Brian C. (56, Melbourne) guilty of conspiracy to distribute and dispense oxycodone outside the usual course of professional practice...

MIAMI - The Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division working in conjunction with the Palm Beach Sheriff’s (PBSO), Broward County Sheriff’s (BSO), Hendry County Sheriff’s (HCSO), Pembroke Pines Police (PPPD), City of Miami Gardens Police (MGPD), and the Attorney General’s Office of Statewide Prosecution conducted an investigation into an organized...

MIAMI - The first Honduran national extradited to the United States for drug trafficking was sentenced yesterday to serve 20 years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine in the United States. A.D. Wright, Acting Special Agent...

HONOLULU - Kali Lotoaiki Laulea, 33, of Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i County, Hawaii, was sentenced to 155 months imprisonment for three counts of methamphetamine distribution. A federal jury found Laulea guilty of the three charges in August of this year after a five-day trial. Florence T. Nakakuni, United States Attorney for the...

ORLANDO, Fla. - A.D. Wright, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Office of Statewide Prosecution’s one-and-a-half-year investigation into an illicit prescription drug trafficking ring culminated last week with the arrests of 20 individuals. These individuals participated in a prescription drug...

TAMPA, Fla. - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell has sentenced Jose Perez-(46, Michoacán, Mexico) to 10 years and 1 month in federal prison for conspiring with others to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. He pleaded guilty on July 29, 2014. According to court documents, Perez-Osorio worked through...

TAMPA, Fla. - A.D. Wright, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces that Richard Mosquera (44, Colombia, South America) today pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to distribute five kilograms or...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles area physician pleaded not guilty to federal drug trafficking charges that allege he illegally distributed drugs, to include the powerful and addictive painkiller oxycodone. Dr. Daniel Cham, 47, was arraigned on a 31-count indictment late Thursday afternoon after he was arrested at his residence...