United States Drug Enforcement Administration

WASHINGTON - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets (“OFAC”) today announced the designation of Honduran national Jose Miguel Handal (a.k.a. “Chepe Handal”), as a Specially Designated Narcotics (“SDNT”) pursuant to the Foreign...

APR 05 - (Weston, Fla.) - In 2010, the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Automation of Reports and Consolidated Orders (ARCOS) reported that 90 of the top 100 oxycodone purchasing physicians in the nation were located in Florida. The number of Florida doctors appearing in that nationwide list dropped from 90 to...

TAMPA, Fla. - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore yesterday sentenced Oneil Marlon Martin, a/k/a David Lawrence (33, Sarasota) to 66 months in federal prison for possessing with intent to distribute marijuana and possessing a firearm in furtherance of that drug trafficking crime. The court also ordered Martin to forfeit...

BATON ROUGE, La. - United States Attorney Donald J. Cazayoux, Jr. announced today that KATELYN & CLAIRE, INC. and ALEX T, INC., both doing business as Quality Express, pled guilty before United States District Court Chief Judge Brian A. Jackson to conspiracy to launder monetary instruments and multiple counts of...

NEW ORLEANS - Don Brooks, age 19, and Antoine Brooks, age 21, both residents of New Orleans, Louisiana, were charged in a 9-count superseding indictment. In addition to the charges brought in the original indictment, the charges in the superseding indictment include discharging a firearm in furtherance of a drug...

FEB 28 (TAMPA, Fla.) - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O'Neill United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces the return of an indictment charging Lydia (38, Bartow) with conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to...

TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O’Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced that earlier this week U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore sentenced Jose (61, Colombia) to 20 years in federal prison...

TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O'Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces the return of an indictment charging Emir (31, Seffner) and Roger Gary (60, Lakeland) with conspiracy to distribute 50 grams...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O’Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced yesterday that a federal jury found Frank (36, Hastings) guilty of one count of conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine and one...

MIAMI - The Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field (MFD), served an Order to Show (OSC) yesterday on Walgreens Corporation d/b/a Walgreens #03099, located at 1525 Colonial Boulevard, Fort Myers, (hereafter “registrant”). An OSC is served as a notice to a DEA registrant to provide them an opportunity to show cause...