United States Drug Enforcement Administration

MIAMI - Red Ribbon Week is the nation’s oldest and largest drug prevention program reaching millions of Americans during the last week of October every year. During Red Ribbon, young people in communities across the nation pledge to live drug free lifestyles by wearing red ribbons and participating in community-wide...

MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, announced that on October 18, 2012, 44 personal properties previously seized from Vincent Colangelo, a rogue pain clinic owner, were auctioned off in Miami, Florida. The auction brought in a total of $ 1,927,020, which...

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 that on October 19, 2012, U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan sentenced Jesus Tijerina (54, Cadereyta, Nuevo Leon, Mexico) to...

TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Robert E. O’Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, and Sue McCormick, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations Tampa, announced today that U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich sentenced...

NEW ORLEANS - Walter Porter, 37, a/k/a “Urkel” a/k/a “Moonie”; Nakia Hankton, 34; Shirley Hankton, 58; Telly Hankton, 36,a/k/a “Third” a/k/a “Wild”; Thomas Hankton, 36, a/k/a “Squirt”; Troy Hankton, 28; George Jackson, 38a/k/a “Black”; Derrick Smothers, 34, a/k/a “Dump”; Andre Hankton, 35;Kevin Jackson, 39; Netthany Schexnayder, 33; Sana Johnson,37; and...

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 that a federal jury found Sergio Godinez Del (46, Napa, California) guilty yesterday of conspiracy to distribute, and possession with...

NEW ORLEANS - Jermaine Holden, 32, a resident of Terrebonne Parish, was sentenced today by U. S. District Court Judge Stanwood R. Duval, Jr. to serve over 16 (200 months) imprisonment after pleading guilty to cocaine charges. In addition to the term of imprisonment, Judge Duval imposed 10 years of...

MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, announced yesterday that a former Colombian prosecutor pled guilty to providing law enforcement information to drug traffickers as part of a conspiracy...

(MIAMI, Fla.) - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, announced the Federal Register publication of Holiday CVS, L.L.C., d/b/a CVS/Pharmacy Nos. 219 and 5195; Decision and Order, on October 12, 2012. The order is effective 30 day from the date of publication in...

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 yesterday U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore sentenced Asieba Imadjam (26, Tampa) to 30 years in federal prison for...