United States Drug Enforcement Administration

SEATTLE - Ferdinand Clay, who was shot while fleeing from the robbery of a marijuana distributor was sentenced on June 6, 2014, in U.S. District court in Seattle to 12 years in prison. On August 13, 2013, Clay, 32, and Melvin Charles Slaughter, 31, tied up and robbed Maple Valley...

FORT SMITH, Ark. - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, Conner Eldridge announced that eleven individuals have been sentenced to a combined total of over 93 years in prison for drug-trafficking offenses stemming from an investigation known...

SEATTLE - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Washington indicted seven people late yesterday for an illegal drug distribution scheme involving an internet pharmacy. The originator of the scheme, Juan Gallinal, 41, of Pembroke Pines, Florida will be summoned to appear for arraignment in Seattle. The internet...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge today sentenced a Birmingham man to 20 years in prison for selling heroin that caused the 2013 death of a Northport man, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay A. Morris and U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance. Harold Donald Mims, 31...

SEATTLE - A marijuana grower and dealer who used firearms to confront fleeing robbers, firing a dozen times in a residential neighborhood, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 32 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Jason Loken, 38, of Maple Valley, Washington, thought...

BOISE, Idaho - Sadith Chavez-Perez, 23, of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty on March 20, 2014, in United States District Court to distribution of methamphetamine. Chavez-Perez was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise, Idaho, on February 11, 2014. According to the plea agreement, on March 27, 2013, Chavez-Perez...

JACKSON, Miss. - Kelvin Robinson, 46, of Bolton, Mississippi, was sentenced in U.S. District Court on May 15, 2014 to 172 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute over 1,000 kilograms of marijuana, and 120 months in prison for money laundering, announced DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Floyd H...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Arnulfo Gomez Tejeda, 39, of Pasco, Washington, was sentenced on May 13, 2014, after having previously pleaded guilty on September 12, 2013, to possession with intent to distribute heroin. Tejeda was sentenced to an 18 year term of imprisonment, to be followed by a 10 year term...

NEW ORLEANS - On April 26, 2014, the New Orleans Field (NOFD) participated in the 8th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, with 245 collection sites within the division, so that the public could discard unwanted, unused and expired prescription drugs. Over the course of four hours 33,980 pounds of...

SEATTLE - The tenant who rented the basement of a home in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood, and his heroin supplier, have both been charged with gun and drug crimes after selling heroin and a firearm to a person working with law enforcement. At the time of the arrests last week, law...