United States Drug Enforcement Administration

OAKLAND, Calif. - A federal grand jury has charged two defendants with various crimes, including one defendant with extortion and assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey; Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Brian M. Clark; Federal Bureau of Investigation...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Nineteen members of a Charleston, Missouri-based drug trafficking organization accused of being the main supplier of methamphetamine and fentanyl to southeast Missouri have been indicted on a felony drug conspiracy charge, U.S. Attorney Sayler A. Fleming announced Friday. Arrests by federal, state and local law enforcement...

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – A federal jury convicted Delon Echols, 31, of Belleville, Illinois, Sept. 29 for sending MDMA through the mail with the intent to later distribute it. MDMA is also known as Ecstasy. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Echols utilized the Dark Web...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A Kansas City, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for possessing methamphetamine to distribute when officers found large amounts of illegal drugs in his room at a Camdenton, Mo., hotel. Anthony Martinez Harris, 49, was sentenced to 21 years and 10 months in federal...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Elijah Richter, 28, of Camino, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to 10 years in prison for distribution of a controlled substance known as n25i-nBOME that caused a death, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Daniel...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Elijah Richter, 28, of Camino, pleaded guilty today to distribution of a controlled substance known as 25I-NBOMe that caused death, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux announced. According to court documents, during September 2012, Richter imported hallucinogenic...