United States Drug Enforcement Administration

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - DEA Special Agent in Charge James Shroba announced today that Anthony Jordan, 29, was arrested on a federal indictment that included multiple drug and weapons charges which resulted in the deaths of three area people. The indictment was returned by a federal grand jury August 26th...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - - Jose Ramon Canales, 37, of El Paso, Texas was sentenced on August 26, 2015, to 70 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to launder drug money out of the United States and into Mexico. Canales previously pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - This afternoon a federal jury sitting in Santa Fe, N.M., found Firas Abuzuhrieh, 38, of Albuquerque, N.M., guilty on federal synthetic drug trafficking charges after a four-day trial. The guilty verdict was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy...

400 felony charges include negligent homicide HAMILTON, Mont. - Dr. Chris Arthur Christensen was arrested on August 27, 2015 after a two year investigation into his medical practice and drug trafficking activities. Christensen faces 400 felony drug charges, including two negligent homicide charges involving drug overdoses. It's alleged the doctor...

ATLANTA - Daniel M. Harbison has been sentenced to one year, nine months in federal prison for impersonating an armed DEA agent, after having previously been convicted of a felony. Daniel R. Salter, the Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Atlanta Field Division said, “Harbinson’s criminal...

DETROIT - United States Attorneys and leaders of federal law enforcement agencies from across six states will be meeting in Detroit on August 26, 2015, to share strategies to combat the heroin and prescription pill epidemic across the region. The effort was announced jointly by United States Attorneys Barbara L...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Ernest Oprecht, 32, of Hartford, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 54...

CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced that Alkis (“Nakos”), age 36, was convicted by a federal jury of operating a Continuing Criminal Enterprise, in violation of Title 21, United States...

GREENVILLE, N.C. - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced today that a jury convicted Donald Jerome Parkeralso known as “DP”, 27of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, of two counts of distributing a quantity of cocaine (crack) and two counts of distributing 28 grams or more of cocaine (crack). The jury...

DETROIT - U.S. Attorneys and leaders of federal law enforcement agencies from across six states met in Detroit on August 26, 2015, to share strategies to combat the heroin and prescription pill epidemic across the region. The effort was announced jointly by U.S. Attorneys Barbara L. McQuade, Eastern District of...