DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Kentucky Pharmacy Owner Sentenced To Ten Years In Prison For Role In Conspiracy To Distribute Controlled Substances

December 18, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 LONDON, Ky. - A Manchester pharmacy owner and his wife will forfeit their home, more than a million dollars, and six cars that were proceeds or purchased with proceeds from a drug conspiracy. In that conspiracy, the pharmacy owner filled...
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Suburban Detroit Dentist Settles Claims Against Him Involving Violations Of Controlled Substances Act

December 16, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 DETROIT - Marc R. Kamp of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan has agreed to pay $125,000, to settle civil claims against him under the Controlled Substances Act, announced Barbara McQuade, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, and Robert L...
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Louisville Physician Charged With Multiple Counts Of Unlawful Distribution Of Controlled Substances

December 04, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Louisville physician was charged today, by a federal grand jury, with multiple counts of unlawful distribution of controlled substances, healthcare fraud and money laundering. The charges were announced by David J. Hale, United States Attorney for...
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West Michigan Pharmacy Owner And Eight Additional Employees Indicted For Conspiracy To Misbrand Controlled Substance Pharmaceutical Drugs

November 21, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury charged Kim Mulder, the owner and CEO of Kentwood Pharmacy, with a Superseding Indictment charging conspiracy to misbrand drugs and conspiracy to create...
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Pharmacists At West Michigan Pharmacy Sentenced To Stiff Fines After Pleading Guilty To Felony Misbranding Of Controlled Substance Prescription Drugs

November 15, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - James D. Orr, 76, and Eugene A. Biegert, 69, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Thomas N. VerHage, 68, of Kentwood, Michigan were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff to substantial fines following their guilty...
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Ohio Jury Convicts Las Vegas Man Of Heroin Conspiracy

November 05, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 COLUMBUS, Ohio - A U.S. District Court jury convicted Jaime Ruiz-Montes, 43, of Las Vegas, Nevada for his role in a heroin trafficking organization operating in central Ohio. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio...
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More Than 20 Defendants Charged In City-Wide Drug Bust

OCT (INDIANAPOLIS) - Jack Riley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Division, of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and Joseph H. Hogsett, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, announced today a city-wide operation that dismantled a massive drug trafficking organization in the Indianapolis area. The...
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Six Defendants Federally Charged With Drug Conspiracy And Money Laundering

MILWAUKEE - Jack Riley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago office of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which includes Wisconsin, and James L. Santelle, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced today that a 13-count indictment was unsealed in federal court charging six defendants with various...
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Thirty-Three Alleged Gang Members Arrested In Early Morning Raids By Local, State And Federal Officials

CHICAGO - - In a major pre-dawn enforcement action by a combined team of Chicago Police officers, DEA agents and additional State and Federal partners 33 individuals with alleged ties to the Imperial Insane Vice Lords, a violent, drug trafficking street gang, were arrested. Ten defendants who allegedly directed or...
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Kentucky Man Sentenced In Heroin Distribution Case

September 27, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 COVINGTON, Ky. - A Newport, Ky., man, who previously admitted to selling heroin in northern Kentucky on multiple occasions, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. On Thursday, September 26, 2013, U.S. District Judge Amul Thapar sentenced 34-year-old Phillip...