United States Drug Enforcement Administration

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent Clay Morris and U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance announced Dec. 29th that a Jasper, Ala. pharmacist and one of his pharmacy technicians turned themselves in to DEA agents on indictments that they conspired to illegally distribute opioid painkillers and other controlled...

LAFAYETTE, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge Eric Watson and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that 12 people were indicted Wednesday in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy in Lafayette and the surrounding areas. Those named in the 15-count indictment are: Jeremy David Hamlett, 37...

Cape May Court House, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Cape May County Prosecutor Robert L. Taylor and Lower Township Police Chief William Mastriana announce the arrest of two individuals, John Matthews, 26 and Nick Alexander, 24 both...

BATON ROUGE, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge Eric Watson and United States Attorney Walt Green announced the unsealing of an indictment returned by a federal grand jury. The indictment is against 11 defendants in a year-long operation and investigation into a drug-trafficking conspiracy involving...

McCOMB, Miss. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Daniel Comeaux and U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today Dr. Lawrence Edsel Stewart, 59, of McComb, has been charged in a 27-count federal indictment with violations of knowingly and intentionally distributing and dispensing schedule II, III, and IV...

NEWARK, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a Newark, New Jersey, man with at least six felony convictions in New Jersey courts was arrested today...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Joseph Shepherd and U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Ruston man was sentenced Wednesday to 147 months in prison for his role in a cocaine conspiracy that stretched across north Louisiana and led to the seizure of...

NEWARK, N.J. - -Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and John J. Hoffman, Acting Attorney General for the State of New Jersey announced that the State Board of Medical Examiners has temporarily suspended the medical license of Dr. Eric Thomas, effective...

NEWARK, 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 former lieutenant with the Miami-Dade Police Department, Internal Affairs, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for...

NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that Jermaine Reynolds, age 39, of Long Beach, Mississippi; David Humphries, age 46, of Baltimore, Maryland; and Marlon Barnes, age 39, of New Orleans; were sentenced today for conspiring to distribute...