United States Drug Enforcement Administration

FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Floyd Everett Harshman, 54, of Fairbanks, Alaska was sentenced in federal court for three counts of drug trafficking and one count of possessing a firearm in furtherance of the drug trafficking crimes. Harshman was sentenced to 120 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release...

- SAN DIEGO - A man who created two medical marijuana dispensaries and a phony board of directors as a front for a multimillion-dollar drug trafficking operation was sentenced today to serve 100 months in federal prison. The defendant was immediately remanded into custody. Joshua John Hester of San Diego...

SEATTLE - The owner of a medical marijuana dispensary that billed itself as a ‘cooperative’ when it really was just a for-profit drug dealing enterprise, was sentenced today to six years in prison and four years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute marijuana and conspiracy to commit money laundering...

SEATTLE - A Monroe, Washington man with a lengthy criminal history was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to nine years in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and counterfeiting. Christopher Frick, 38, is one of 34 people indicted in a...

SEATTLE - The Drug Enforcement Administration is warning the public about criminals posing as DEA special agents or other law enforcement personnel as part of an international extortion scheme. This criminal activity has occurred in the past, but is now occurring with much more frequency. The DEA Seattle Field Division...

SAN DIEGO - On December 13, 2012, San Diego Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge William R. Sherman and San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis announced the results of a 21-month operation, dubbed Operation Knight Stalker, which targeted legacy members of the La Familia Michoacá(LFM) drug cartel...

BOISE, Idaho - Rolondo F. Gonzalez, 57, of Caldwell, Idaho, was sentenced in United States District Court on December 12, 2012, to ten years in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and distributing methamphetamine. Gonzalez was convicted after a jury trial on August 22, 2012. During the two-day trial, the...

JUNEAU, Alaska - Travell Demar Pinkston, 42 of Sacramento, California, was sentenced on December 12, 2012, in federal court for his role in a conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute oxycodone. Pinkston was sentenced to 42 months in prison and three years of supervised release...

SEATTLE - A Burien woman was sentenced December 6, 2012, in U.S. District Court in Seattle, to five years in prison and five years of supervised release for four felony counts connected to the laundering of illegal proceeds from the drug distribution conspiracy she participated in with her husband. Svetlana...

YAKIMA, Wash. - Luis Alberto Oregon-Sanchez, 25, of Yakima, Washington, was sentenced December 6, 2012, for manufacturing more than 100 marijuana plants, a crime to which he had previously pleaded guilty. Senior United States District Judge Fred Van Sickle imposed a five year term of imprisonment to be followed by...