United States Drug Enforcement Administration

AUG 6 -- WASHINGTON – Miami-based American Express Bank International has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement on charges of failing to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program and will forfeit $55 million to the U.S. government, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Drug...

JUL 24 -- WASHINGTON – The owner of a pharmaceutical wholesale business based in Mexico City and a co-conspirator have been arrested in the United States on drug and money laundering charges, respectively, for allegedly conspiring to aid and abet the manufacturing of methamphetamine, knowing that it would be imported...

JUL 11 -- (Newport News, VA) - Frederick Lee Hudson, 26, a.k.a. Michael Deon Booze, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute crack and ecstasy and discharging a firearm during a drug trafficking crime. Hudson had previously pled guilty on April 3, 2007. Chuck Rosenberg, United...

JUN 26 -- Baltimore , Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted the following defendants, all of Baltimore, for their alleged participation in a drug conspiracy to distribute large quantities of heroin in the Baltimore City area, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein...

JUN 12 -- (Baltimore, MD) Carl J. Kotowski, Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) of the Baltimore District Office of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), along with Baltimore City Police Commissioner Leonard D. Hamm and Baltimore City State’s Attorney Patricia Jessamy, announced on June 7, 2007, the dismantlement of a...

MAY 7 -- United States Attorney John L. Brownlee announced today that Deron Jones, 37, of Bristol, Virginia, was sentenced in the United States District Court in Abingdon, Virginia, to two terms of life imprisonment and two additional terms of ten years imprisonment. Jones was convicted in December, 2006 by...

APR 24 -- (Alexandria, VA) – Today, a grand jury sitting in Alexandria, Virginia, indicted Tony Ervin Lopez on one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, four counts of distribution of cocaine and four counts of using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to drug trafficking crimes. Chuck...

APR 12 -- (RICHMOND, VA) - Seven students at Hampden-Sydney College in Prince Edward County, Virginia were arrested today on federal charges following a joint local, state, and federal narcotics distribution investigation. Additional students were also arrested on state charges. Shawn Johnson, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)...

FEB 26-- Greenbelt, Maryland - Stevie Burton, age 43, of Forestville, Maryland, was sentenced today to 352 months in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release for participating in a narcotics conspiracy and carrying a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime, announced United States Attorney for the...

FEB 21-- Greenbelt, Maryland - Derek Curtis, age 63, of Seabrook, Maryland, was sentenced today to 63 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances including Oxydodone, and for distributing cocaine from his dental office, announced United States Attorney for the District...