United States Drug Enforcement Administration

(NEW ORLEANS) - - Norman Ratcliff, aka “Turk,” 21, a resident of New Orleans, pled guilty today in federal court to various federal violations stemming from a 34 count second superseding indictment. Ratcliffand several of his associates were charged with participating in a violent drug gang that operated in the...

(LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) - - Acting Special Agent in Charge Joseph W. Shepherd and William J. Bryant, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock District Office of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), along with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced today that seven individuals...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Vincent Mescrea, also known as “Jose Jimenez,” 43, a citizen of the Dominican Republic last residing...

BRIDGEPORT Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that two New Fairfield men were sentenced today in Bridgeport federal court for trafficking oxycodone and other controlled...

(FORT SMITH, Ark.) - - Drug Enforcement (New Orleans Field Division) Acting Special Agent in Charge Joseph W. Shepherd announced today that Mark Anthony Teas, 34, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, was sentenced to five years in prison for the burglary of the Prince Drug Store in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The...

NEW ORLEANS - James Self, 29, a resident of St. Helena Parish, was sentenced on June 27, 2013 to 70 months imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release by U. S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo after pleading guilty to cocaine and marijuana charges. Self pled guilty on November 13...

NEW ORLEANS - Kevin Tyler, age 36, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on June 26, 2013 to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine hydrochloride before the Honorable Stanwood Duval, Jr. Tyler’s charges stem from a 2009 Drug...

JUNE 28 - ( FORT SMITH, Ark.) - - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, and William J. Bryant, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, announced that 17 defendants were sentenced to a combined 113 years and 11 months in federal...

BURLINGTON,Vt. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on June 24, 2013, Matthew Burt, 38, of South Burlington, Vermont was sentenced to 63 months imprisonment by...

BOSTON - - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Boston Field Division, United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz, and Richard DesLauriers, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Field Division, announced that a former Hadley man was sentenced today in...