United States Drug Enforcement Administration

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – Lamondra Beckley, 43, of St. Louis pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense, and unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Beckley has been under federal indictment since April...

NEW YORK – An indictment charges three individuals with Operating as a Major Trafficker following the seizure of nearly 40 pounds of alleged heroin and fentanyl from a large-scale narcotics packaging operation in the Morris Heights neighborhood of the Bronx. The organization combined heroin and fentanyl for sale in New...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Mexican national who has been deported seven times after illegally entering the United States was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a Daviess County, Missouri, marijuana-growing operation where law enforcement officers seized nearly $10 million worth of plants. Sergio Medina-Perez, 47, of...

NEW YORK CITY – Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Ariel Tavarez, a/k/a “A,” a/k/a “Mike,” pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine, fentanyl, and a fentanyl analogue, and to distributing narcotics that caused the...

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – Lloyd Parker, 32, of Hutchinson, Kansas, was sentenced last week to 262 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine. Parker pled guilty to the charged conspiracies, as well as distribution and possession of methamphetamine, on March 9, 2021. The crimes took...

ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Court Judge Stephen R. Clark sentenced Corey Clark to 50 months in prison on Wednesday. The 52-year-old St. Louis resident pleaded guilty in March to one count of possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl and one count of being a felon in possession of...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Three Sedalia, Missouri, residents were indicted by a federal grand jury today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine after law enforcement officers seized 28 firearms from a residence during the investigation. James Jacob Johnson, 23, Amber Marie Lawson, 36, and Eric Ryan Janes...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York Division announced today that Devonnte White, 29, of Huntersville, North Carolina, who was convicted of possessing with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl, was sentenced...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York Division announced today that Robert Moore, 43, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of distribution of fentanyl causing death, was sentenced to serve 270 months in prison by...

ST. LOUIS – Richard Lawrence Davis, 38, of St. Louis, Missouri, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute cocaine, possession with intent to distribute cocaine and fentanyl, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. In September 2019, investigators identified Davis as a distributor of narcotics, including cocaine and...