United States Drug Enforcement Administration

PHOENIX - Agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) along with various state and local law enforcement agencies executed 12 search warrants yesterday and seized more than 20,000 units of synthetic drugs in the second statewide enforcement action against the synthetic designer drug industry responsible for the production and sale...

NOV 06 - ( 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 that U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan sentenced nine individuals this week to federal prison...

INDIANAPOLIS - Jack Riley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and Joseph H. Hogsett, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana announced today that Agustin Lozano, 35, Sinaola, Mexico, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge William T. Lawrence to...

MINNEAPOLIS - On Thursday, November 1, 2012, the Drug Enforcement (DEA), along with the Rochester Police Department, Olmsted County Sheriff’s office, South Eastern Minnesota Narcotics Task (SEMNTF), and the United States Marshals Services, executed numerous arrest warrants as part of Operation Heat Wave, a collaborative investigation into the distribution of...

FRESNO, Calif. - Lynn Truong, aka Linh Thi Truong, 40, of Clovis, was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for a conspiracy to defraud lenders while buying homes to use to grow marijuana, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B...

FRESNO, Calif.) - Two men involved in the large-scale cultivation of marijuana on agricultural land pleaded guilty today, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Devil’s Den, Kings County (1:12-cr-233-LJO) - In the first case, Jonathan Anthony Meza, 20, of...

FRESNO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced Jonathan Vega, 25, of Fresno, to 19 years and seven months in prison for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute it, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner. This...

MEDFORD, Ore. - Today, Donald Galvan, 48, of Central Point, Oregon, was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for conspiracy to manufacture and distribute 100 or more kilograms of marijuana. The charge stemmed from an April 2011 traffic stop in Texas where police seized 43 pounds of marijuana. The...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England; United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island, Peter F. Neronha and Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin announced that Adilson A. Reyes, 31, of Utah, one of three men...

BURLINGTON Vt. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Tristram J. Coffin announced that, Frank Santaw, 30, of Island Pond, was sentenced to 78 months imprisonment for conspiracy to manufacture five grams or more of methamphetamine, a...