DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Tioga Man Charged With Manufacturing Methamphetamine

TIOGA, Pa. - The United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a criminal Information was filed yesterday charging Orin Moore, age 41, of Lawrenceville with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. According to U.S. Attorney Peter Smith, on January 6, 2012, the Pennsylvania State Police went...
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Wilkes-Barre Man Sentenced To Prison On Drug Charges

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Wilkes-Barre man was sentenced today, in federal court in Wilkes-Barre, by United States District Judge A. Richard Caputo, to serve 18 months in prison on a charge of using a communication device to...
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Guilty Verdict In Cocaine Conspiracy And A Conspiracy To Launder Drug Money

PITTSBURGH - After a trial that began on June 9, 2014, a federal jury deliberated for just the afternoon on June 26, 2014 before finding Robert Russell Spence, a previous resident of Duquesne, Pennsylvania who is also known as “Slick” or “Little Russ”, guilty of taking part in both a...
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Wilkes-Barre Man Sentenced To Prison On Drug Charges

SCRANTON, Pa. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Wilkes-Barre man was sentenced yesterday, in federal court in Scranton, by United States District Judge Malachy Mannion, to serve 151 months in prison on a charge of conspiracy to distribute heroin. - According...
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Maryland Man Sentenced To Prison On Drug Charges

SCRANTON, Pa. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Wilkes-Barre man was sentenced yesterday, in federal court in Scranton, by United States District Judge Malachy Mannion, to serve 160 months in prison on a charge of conspiracy to distribute heroin. According to...
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Franklin And Cumberland County Drug Trafficking Conspirators Charged Federally In Connection With Local Man's Death

HARRISBURG, Pa. - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Ashley Gries, 19, of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania; Danny Guy Forrester, 48, of Shippensburg; Gabriel John Stouffer, 30, of Newburg, Pennsylvania; Michael Anthony DeCarlo, 31, of Shippensburg; and Jeffrey Lynn Wright, Jr., 31, of Shippensburg, have...