United States Drug Enforcement Administration

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...

PHOENIX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman announced today the unsealing of an indictment against Jose Guadalupe Tapia-Quintero, 42, a Mexican national and high ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel. Tapia-Quintero was indicted by a federal grand jury in February 2013 on various counts including Conspiracy...

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...

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...

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...

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...

LOS ANGELES/SPOKANE, Wash. - Early this morning, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Los Angeles Police Department, in conjunction with the Spokane Regional Drug Task (SRDTF), led a large-scale enforcement action targeting a criminal organization spanning from Los Angeles to Eastern Washington. Hundreds of law enforcement officials, including federal agents...

PHOENIX - On Feb. 4, 2013, Robert Francis Dayaye, Jr. (a.k.a. “Fat Rob”), 33, of Whiteriver, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judges Neil V. Wake and G. Murray Snow to a combined term of imprisonment of 15 years. Dayaye pleaded guilty on Oct. 5, 2102, to possession with intent...

EUGENE, Ore. - Denise Richardson, 47, of Roseburg, Oregon, was sentenced to prison for stealing narcotics from the Roseburg Veteran’s Affairs Hospital. Richardson is a former pharmacy technician at the Veteran’s Affairs Hospital. Chief U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Richardson to 24 months in prison and ordered her to...

POCATELLO, Idaho - Jose Tapia-Lopez, 29, a Mexican national formerly living in Heyburn, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 168 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. Tapia-Lopez was also ordered to serve five years of supervised release...