United States Drug Enforcement Administration

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, James P. Shroba announced today that Rusty J. Smith, 36, of Cobden, IL, was sentenced for a methamphetamine violation in the Southern District of Illinois. Smith, who had previously pled guilty to a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, James P. Shroba announced today that Frank R. Johnson, a/k/a “Mo,” 45, of Elkville, IL, was sentenced for his involvement in a heroin conspiracy in the Southern District of Illinois. Johnson, who had previously pled guilty to a...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, James P. Shroba announced today that Zachary Weil, 36, of St. Louis, MO, was convicted, in the Southern District of Illinois, of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering. Weil was sentenced to 144 months...

GRANITE CITY, Ill. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, James P. Shroba announced today that Ronald J. Wiggins, 35, of Granite City, was sentenced this week to 151 months in federal prison for offenses relating to the distribution of methamphetamine. Wiggins pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, James P. Shroba announced today that Harold Lawayne Barron, a/k/a “Wayne,” 51, of Murphysboro, Ill., was sentenced for his involvement in a methamphetamine conspiracy and a crack cocaine conspiracy. Barron, who had previously pled guilty to the two-count...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, James P. Shroba announced today that Brandon K. Craig, 21, of Carbondale, Ill., was sentenced for his involvement in a methamphetamine conspiracy in the Southern District of Illinois. Stephen R. Craig, who had previously pled guilty to the...

ST. LOUIS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, James P. Shroba announced today that all forfeiture claims in the civil case against $11,071,188.64, seized from brokerage accounts involving money laundering transactions, were struck down by U.S. District Judge Carol E. Jackson, of the Eastern District of Missouri. The...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, James P. Shroba announced today thatDavid E. Rodebaugh, 40, Michael Pearson, 31, and Hernan Hurtado, 23, all of Jefferson City, were charged in federal court following a police chase that resulted in the seizure of a large quantity of...

TRENTON, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U. S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a licensed pharmacist was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for attempting to weaponize the lethal toxins...

ST. LOUIS - The Drug Enforcement Administration St. Louis Division takes the prize with two Regional Winners in the 2014, National Red Ribbon Photo Contest. The Larson Family in Gayville, South Dakota and the Clark family in Sigourney, Iowa both had the winning entries for this year’s theme “Love Yourself...