DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Pierce County Man Who Shot Two Intruders At His Marijuana Grow Indicted For Drug Manufacturing And Illegal Gun Possession

SEATTLE - Jeremy Peter Capodanno, 36, was arrested late yesterday following his indictment last week for manufacturing marijuana, and two counts for discharging and possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug crime. On December 6, 2012, Capodanno shot two people who had broken into the garage of his Puyallup residence...
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Seattle Man Sentenced To Nine Years In Prison For Dealing High Powered Narcotic While Possessing Multiple Firearms

SEATTLE - A Seattle man who had a home loaded with drugs, guns and cash, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to nine years in prison. Bernard Amin Mustafa III, 37, was arrested April 19, 2012, when agents with a search warrant found multiple drugs, fentanyl, cocaine...
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Owner Of Marijuana Storefront Sentenced To Prison For Drug Dealing

SEATTLE - Jing Jing Mo, 32-year-old Seattle woman who co-owned and operated two marijuana storefronts was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 42 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute marijuana and conspiracy to engage in money laundering. Mo was a co-owner of Seattle Cannabis Cooperative with...
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Drug Trafficker Receives 19 Year Prison Sentence For Two Cocaine Conspiracies

APRIL 09 - ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On April 8, 2013, Derneval Rodnell Dimmer, 36, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 228 months in prison for his involvement in two separate cocaine investigations. The court also imposed a ten-year period of supervised release that will follow the nineteen-year prison term...
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Two Moses Lake Drug Traffickers Sentenced To Lengthy Prison Terms

SPOKANE, Wash. - -Isidro Madrigal-Galvan, 20, and Renee Gomez, 24, both of Moses Lake, Washington, were sentenced on March 20, 2013, after being convicted by a jury of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and other offenses relating to the operation of a methamphetamine trafficking organization. Madrigal-Galvan was sentenced to more than...
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Baton Rouge Convenience Store Forfeits Nearly $1 Million As The Result Of A DEA/IRS Money Laundering Investigation

BATON ROUGE, La. - United States Attorney Donald J. Cazayoux, Jr. announced today that KATELYN & CLAIRE, INC. and ALEX T, INC., both doing business as Quality Express, pled guilty before United States District Court Chief Judge Brian A. Jackson to conspiracy to launder monetary instruments and multiple counts of...
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Wide Ranging Drug Trafficking Conspiracy Dismantled

SEATTLE - -A drug trafficking organization that distributed large amounts of methamphetamine and heroin from Mexico to Washington state was dismantled today with more than a dozen arrests. The criminal organization spanned a large area of the state with operations ranging from Everett to Vancouver, Washington and from Aberdeen on...
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Owner Of Non-Profit “Club” Charged With Illegal Distribution Of Prescription Narcotics

SEATTLE - -The owner of a South Seattle non-profit “club” that hosted Alcoholics Anonymous meetings was arrested last night for illegal distribution of oxycodone. The investigation revealed that the Nomadian Community Resource (NCRC) on South Orcas Street in Seattle was a hub for prescription drug dealing. Michael Martin Shepard, 64...
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Oregon Man Sentenced For Growing Marijuana In Northern Idaho

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho - - Justin Edward Egner, 36, of Springfield, Oregon, the fifth defendant in a multi-state marijuana trafficking operation, was sentenced on March 5, 2013, in United States District Court. Egner was sentenced to 40 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for conspiracy to...
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Superseding Indictment Returned For The Drug Related Murder Of New Orleanian Tamira Johnson

NEW ORLEANS - Don Brooks, age 19, and Antoine Brooks, age 21, both residents of New Orleans, Louisiana, were charged in a 9-count superseding indictment. In addition to the charges brought in the original indictment, the charges in the superseding indictment include discharging a firearm in furtherance of a drug...