United States Drug Enforcement Administration

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, James P. Shroba announced today that Rusty J. Smith, 36, of Cobden, IL, was sentenced for a methamphetamine violation in the Southern District of Illinois. Smith, who had previously pled guilty to a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, James P. Shroba announced today that Frank R. Johnson, a/k/a “Mo,” 45, of Elkville, IL, was sentenced for his involvement in a heroin conspiracy in the Southern District of Illinois. Johnson, who had previously pled guilty to a...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, James P. Shroba announced today that Zachary Weil, 36, of St. Louis, MO, was convicted, in the Southern District of Illinois, of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering. Weil was sentenced to 144 months...

GRANITE CITY, Ill. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, James P. Shroba announced today that Ronald J. Wiggins, 35, of Granite City, was sentenced this week to 151 months in federal prison for offenses relating to the distribution of methamphetamine. Wiggins pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, James P. Shroba announced today that Harold Lawayne Barron, a/k/a “Wayne,” 51, of Murphysboro, Ill., was sentenced for his involvement in a methamphetamine conspiracy and a crack cocaine conspiracy. Barron, who had previously pled guilty to the two-count...

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, James P. Shroba announced today that Brandon K. Craig, 21, of Carbondale, Ill., was sentenced for his involvement in a methamphetamine conspiracy in the Southern District of Illinois. Stephen R. Craig, who had previously pled guilty to the...

ST. LOUIS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, James P. Shroba announced today that all forfeiture claims in the civil case against $11,071,188.64, seized from brokerage accounts involving money laundering transactions, were struck down by U.S. District Judge Carol E. Jackson, of the Eastern District of Missouri. The...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, James P. Shroba announced today thatDavid E. Rodebaugh, 40, Michael Pearson, 31, and Hernan Hurtado, 23, all of Jefferson City, were charged in federal court following a police chase that resulted in the seizure of a large quantity of...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce Balzano, and San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr announced that 19 people have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of drug trafficking near schools and playgrounds in San Francisco. The indictments...

FRESNO, Calif. - Chad Allen Riffle, 22, resident of Citrus Springs, Florida, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill to five years in prison for structuring cash transactions. According to court documents, Riffle and seven co-defendants opened and maintained bank accounts for the purpose of funneling...