United States Drug Enforcement Administration

ST. LOUIS - - James Shroba, Special Agent in (SAC) of the St. Louis Division Office, announced that on Friday, June 16, 2017, Rodney B. Smith, 43, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced to 147 months in the Bureau of Prisons for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine in...

ST. LOUIS - - James Shroba, Special Agent-in-(SAC) of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) St. Louis Division Office, announced today that that three Nixa, Mo., residents have pleaded guilty in federal court to their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, which resulted in the murder of Mexican national, Oscar Adan...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - - Troy Derby, Assistant Special Agent-in-(ASAC) of DEA’s Kansas City District Office, announced today that Nelson Olmeda, also known as “Diego,” 27, of Rosenberg, Texas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool, District Court Judge of the United States District Court, Western District of...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - -Troy Derby, Assistant Special Agent-in-(ASAC) of DEA’s Kansas City’s District Office announced on June 15, 2017, that DEA had secured 19 separate guilty pleas from Kansas City metropolitan residents resulting from a 4.3 million dollar methamphetamine distribution conspiracy. These 19 guilty pleas were the remaining subjects...

CAMDEN, N.J. - -Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced today a Camden man admitted distributing heroin in Camden. Jose Correa, aka “Ciego,” 45, pleaded guilty before U.S...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - -Troy Derby, Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge of DEA’s Kansas City District Office announced that on June 6, 2017, a Fulton, Mo., man has pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a conspiracy to distribute more than $6.6 million of synthetic cannabinoids, also known as K2...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - -Troy Derby, Assistant Special Agent-in-(ASAC) of DEA’s Kansas City’s District Office announced on May 31, 2017, that DEA had secured 20 year prison sentences for two men residing in the Springfield, Missouri, area. Anthony J. Van Pelt, 38, or Springfield, Missouri, was sentenced to 21 years...

NEWARK, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced today a gang member, Ernest Valentine, aka “Bop,” who sold crack-cocaine for the New Jersey Grape Street Crips gang...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - -On May 18, 2017, Assistant Special Agent in (ASAC) Troy Derby of the Kansas City District Office announced that two women, one from St. Charles, Missouri, and the other from Republic, Missouri, were sentenced in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute large...

OMAHA, Neb. - - Darin Thimmesch, Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge of DEA’s Omaha District Office announced on May 18, 2017, that DEA had secured a prison sentenced for Daniel Perez-Heredia. Perez-Heredia, 29, a resident alien from Worthington, MN, was sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for conspiracy to...