United States Drug Enforcement Administration

FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment Thursday against Ronald Danny Ditlevson, 33, of Exeter, charging him with distributing oxycodone, also called oxycontin, Drug Enforcement Administration Jay Fitzpatrick and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. According to court documents, Ditlevson sold an undercover agent of...

Portland, Ore. - Salvador Martinez-Perez, 53, East Wenatchee, Washington, appeared today before U.S. Magistrate Dennis J. Hubel and plead not guilty to a federal indictment charging him with four counts of conspiracy and possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin. On January 17, 2014, Sherman County Sheriff's...

FRESNO, Calif. - Sdey Chim, 37, of Modesto, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to structure cash transactions. According to court documents, Chim and co-conspirators obtained prescriptions for oxycodone and hydrocodone from a doctor in Visalia. After obtaining the prescriptions, co-conspirators filed the prescriptions at pharmacies in Fresno...

BOISE, Idaho - Ausencio Gonzalez Tovar, 48, a Mexican national living in Star, Idaho, was sentenced on February 10, 2014, to 188 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. Tovar was also ordered to forfeit...

SEATTLE - Mitchell Wright, 33, of Bothell, WA, made his initial appearance today in federal court on an indictment charging him with three counts of drug trafficking. The federal magistrate detained defendant, pending a full detention hearing scheduled on February 20, 2014. Wright was a commissioned law enforcement officer employed...

FRESNO, Calif.) - A marijuana cultivator was sentenced and one entered a guilty plea today for their involvement in separate large-scale marijuana cultivation cases involving private lands, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick and U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. 920 Marijuana Plants/Processed Marijuana/Assault Rifle Seized from...

FRESNO, Calif.) - Today, a Phoenix man was sentenced for growing marijuana in Madera County, and a Fresno man pleaded guilty to growing marijuana in Madera county, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Five Years Federal Prison for Gun...

SEATTLE - A Puyallup, Washington man who shot and killed two men who had entered the garage where he was growing marijuana, was sentenced on January 31, 2014, to seven years in prison and three years of supervised release for manufacturing marijuana and possession of a firearm in relation to...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment today against Nicholas J. Capos Jr., 63, of Granite Bay, charging him with one count of conspiracy to distribute, dispense, and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone, and five counts of illegal distribution and dispensation of oxycodone, Drug Enforcement...

BOISE, Idaho - Rahil Akhtar, 37, of Eagle, Idaho, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court for acquiring and obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud and deception. Akhtar was a dentist licensed to practice in the state of Idaho. He was sentenced to three years' probation, 300 hours of...