United States Drug Enforcement Administration

MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announced the unsealing of an indictment against defendants Rene Sanabria-Oropeza, Milton Sanchez-Pantoja, Marcelo Foronda-Azero, and Jorge Sanchez-Pantoja, all Bolivian nationals...

MIAMI, FL. - Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division Special Agent in Charge Mark R. Trouville announces the activation of a “pill mill” tip line. Over the last year, Operation Pill Nation investigators made hundreds of undercover purchases of prescription drugs from doctors in South Florida rogue pain clinics. The...

MIAMI, FL. - DEA Agents, with assistance from its federal, state, and local law enforcement partners, arrested 22 people and seized over $2.2 million in cash and 70 vehicles, including numerous exotic cars, on Wednesday, February 23 in a sweeping takedown of rogue pain clinics in South Florida. These arrests...

MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, John V. Gillies, Federal Bureau of (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Anthony V. Mangione, U.S. Immigration and Customs and (ICE), Homeland Security...

MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, Daniel W. Auer, Special Agent in Charge...

NEW ORLEANS, LA. - EDWARD DAVIS - , age 30, a resident of Tangipahoa Parish, was sentenced today in federal court by U. S. District Judge Stanwood Duval to over 15 (185 months) imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute and distribution of crack cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Letten. In addition...

NEW ORLEANS, LA. - DEWAYNE COOPER - , age 38, LEONARD WHITE - , age 33, CHARLES WADE - , age 30, GENERIO ALLEN - , age 26, all residents of New Orleans, La and CASSANDRA BATISTE - , age 41, a resident of Houston, Texas pled guilty today in...

NEW ORLEANS, LA. - DESHON SIGNAL - , age 34, a resident of Laplace, Louisiana, pled guilty today in federal court before U. S. District Carl Barber to a six-count indictment charging him with distribution of crack cocaine, possession with the intent to distribute crack cocaine of cocaine, felon-in-possession of...

TAMPA, FL. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Miami Field Division Special Agent in Charge Mark R. Trouville and United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announce today that United States District Judge Virginia Covington sentenced Adam Nagy, age 30, formerly of St. Petersburg, to 33 months in federal prison for conspiring to...

LAFAYETTE, LA. - Demetrio Regalado, AKA “Dee” 24, leader of a drug trafficking organization based out of Vermilion Parish, was sentenced January 23, 2011 to 25 years in prison and five years supervised release following imprisonment. The sentence is a result of Regalado’s plea of guilty to conspiracy to possess...