DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Owner of Rockstar Burgers Pleads Guilty to Making Restaurant Available to Drug Traffickers in $1.7 Million Conspiracy

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The owner of the Rockstar Burgers restaurant in Kansas City, Mo., has pleaded guilty in federal court to allowing his former restaurant building to be used in a drug trafficking conspiracy that is alleged to have distributed more than 150 kilograms of methamphetamine and more than...
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Repeat Offender Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison for Distributing Drugs for a Transnational Drug Trafficking Ring

SEATTLE – A 50-year-old Washington State man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to seven years in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl pills, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Preston Joseph Smith was arrested in December 2021 in Port Angeles, Washington on allegations he...
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Jamestown Man Pleads Guilty to Meth Charge

BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross and Special Agent in Charge Frank A. Tarentino III, Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division announced today that Justin Brooks, 33, Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. to possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of...
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Spokane Man Sentenced for Involvement in Shooting Death of Idaho Teen

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho--Dennen Trey George Fitterer-Usher, 24, of Spokane Valley, Washington, was sentenced this week to more than 14 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance and discharge of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. According to court records, in 2021, Fitterer-Usher met...
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Jamestown Woman Going to Prison on Drug Charge

BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross and Special Agent in Charge Frank A. Tarentino III, Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division, announced today that Loegan Morrison Samples, 24, Jamestown, NY, who was convicted of maintaining a drug-involved premises, was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison by U.S. District...
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Six Sent to Prison After Traffic Stops Yield Kilos of Meth

CORPUS CHRISTI – The final member of a of a Corpus Christi drug trafficking organization has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute meth, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney...
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Bronx Man Sentenced to Ten Years in Federal Prison for Delivery of 1000 Bricks (50,000 bags) of Fentanyl to Syracuse

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Marvin Antonio Lantigua, 32, of the Bronx, New York City, was sentenced today to serve 10-years in federal prison for possessing with intent to distribute a kilogram of fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge of the...
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Armed Indiana Meth Dealer Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison

INDIANAPOLIS – Michael Gannon, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of Drug Enforcement Administration-Indianapolis, and U.S. Attorney Zachary A. Myers for the Southern District of Indiana announced that Patrick Doornbos, 38, of Monticello, Indiana, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with the intent to...
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Goldsboro Methamphetamine Trafficker Sentenced to 106 Months in Prison

WILMINGTON, N.C. –– A Goldsboro, North Carolina man was sentenced today to 106 months in prison for Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of Methamphetamine and Possession with Intent to Distribute 50 grams or more of...
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Drug Trafficker Sentenced to 7 Years for Operating Cocaine Delivery Service in Chicago Area

CHICAGO — Robert J. Bell, Special Agent in Charge of Drug Enforcement Administration-Chicago Division, and U.S. Attorney John R. Lausch, Jr., for the Northern District of Illinois announced that a drug trafficker who conspired with his father and several others to operate a cocaine delivery service in the Chicago area...