United States Drug Enforcement Administration

FRESNO, CA - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging Emmanuel Martinez Ruvalcaba, 19, of Alhambra, and Rafael Alfonso Torres, 22, of Mexico, with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and...

- PHOENIX, AZ. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman and U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona, Dennis K. Burke, announced that Robert Jan Opacian, 31, of Bridgeview, Ill., was sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge James A. Teilborg to 30 months in prison...

BEAUMONT, TX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge Thomas E. Hinojosa and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced that two Houston men have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a major drug trafficking conspiracy. The sentencing hearings were held by U.S. District Judge Ron...

The United States Attorney’s Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on June 23, 2011, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah C. Lynch, the following individuals were arraigned: Jason David Burns, a 40-year-old resident of Helena, appeared on charges of manufacturing marijuana, distribution of marijuana, possession of marijuana...

ATLANTA, GA. - Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Charlie Stephens, age 76, Jeff Sivell, age unknown, and Alvin Malone, age 32, all certified law enforcement officers working for the Sheriff’s Department in Talbot County, Georgia, were charged in individual indictments for...

CHICAGO, IL. - Thirty-eight defendants in three states are facing federal narcotics charges here and in Ohio as a result of an investigation of an alleged Chicago-based heroin and cocaine drug-trafficking organization by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Chicago Police Department, law enforcement officials announced today. While the investigation...

NORWALK, CT. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Anthony Holley, a.k.a “BG,” 31, of Monterey Place, Norwalk, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge...

BALTIMORE, MD. - On June 21, 2011, U.S. District Judge Benson E. Legg sentenced Kevin Jenkins, a/k/a “Mud,”, age 46, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 160 months in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute drugs in the Gilmor Homes public housing complex in Baltimore. Judge...

BALTIMORE, MD. - On June 21, 2011, U.S. District Judge Benson Everett Legg sentenced April Lynn Baker, age 30, of Greencastle, Pennsylvania, formerly of Clear Spring, Maryland, to three years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute, and distributing, morphine and methadone, the use...

MANHATTAN, NY. - JOHN P. GILBRIDE, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the convictions of EDILBERTO BERRIO ORTIZ, a/k/a "El Gavilan," ALEJANDRO PALACIOS RENGIFO, a/k/a "El Gato,"...