United States Drug Enforcement Administration

MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Vito S. Guarino, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Philadelphia Division, and Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announce the arrests of Scott Evan Thomas, 42, Ryan...

TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O'Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced today that Senior U.S. District Judge William J. Castagna sentenced Michael Renard Albury, Jr. (27, Bradenton), to 60 years in...

HOUSTON - A total of 27 people have been indicted as a result of the seizure of nearly 14,000 marijuana plants during enforcement actions conducted throughout the greater Houston area on Aug. 21, 2012, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier F. Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O'Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced today that U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan sentenced Amadeo Hernandez Jaimes, a/k/a "Amadeo" and "Mayo" (39, Mission, Texas) to...

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - On September 17, 2012, John Arnold, 25, of East St. Louis, Illinois, pled guilty to a single count Indictment charging him with Possession With the Intent to Distribute Crack Cocaine, the Drug Enforcement Administration and United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen...

MIAMI - Michele M. Leonhart, Administrator, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announce the unsealing of the indictment against Roberto Lopez Perdigon, 41, of Caracas, Venezuela. Lopez...

RICHMOND, Va. - Wilfred Houston Blair, 37, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and formerly of Richmond, Virginia, was sentenced today to 276 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute over 5 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride and 1 kilogram of...

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - The Drug Enforcement Administration and Federal Prosecutors today announce that a Randolph County resident was sentenced on a one-count indictment, charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. Bonnie L. Wahl, a/k/a Bonnie Biesterfeld, 45, of Sparta, IL, was sentenced to 60 months in prison, followed by 5...

PHOENIX - On September 13, 2012, following a five-day trial in federal district court, a jury found Francisco Alfredo Montes-Vargas, 39, of Culiacan, Mexico, guilty of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine. The evidence presented at trial showed that Drug Enforcement...

NEWARK - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced Dr. Priscilla Ilem admitted today to illegally selling oxycodone prescriptions from her Wayne office. Ilem, 85...