United States Drug Enforcement Administration

FRESNO, Calif. - Gerardo Morales, 23, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to cultivate, distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana grown on a 20-acre agricultural parcel in Alpaugh, Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. According to court documents, on May...

FRESNO, Calif. - Damone Kelley, 45, of Fresno, is the last of seven defendants to plead guilty today for his involvement in a drug and money laundering ring that extended from Fresno to Alabama and Georgia, Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B...

SHREVEPORT - , La. - Acting Special Agent in Charge Joseph W. Shepherd announced on August 26, 2013 that William Paul Boyter, 76, Michael Paul Boyter, 51, and Antony Reuben Riley, 49, all of Shreveport, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote to charges of conspiracy, money laundering...

PLANO, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that 17 alleged members of a Colombian drug trafficking organization have been indicted by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Texas. The indictment, which was returned by a federal grand jury on Feb. 27, 2013, and unsealed...

TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC), Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, A. Lee Bentley, III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces the charging by complaint of Jose Duarte, a.k.a "Margarito Garcia-Camacho" (45), a Mexican national residing in Highlands County; (a.k.a...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - -Demetrius Duncan a/k/a Whirley, 32, Alto Parnell a/k/a Al-Pistol, 31, and Chris Young a/k/a Soldier C, 25, all of Clarksville, Tennessee, were convicted Friday in U.S. District Court, of operating a drug conspiracy and related firearms charges, after a three week jury trial, announced David Rivera, Acting...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Craig Petties, 36, of Memphis, Tennessee was sentenced today to nine life sentences in federal prison by United States District Judge Samuel H. Mays, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III. In 2009, Petties pleaded guilty to 19 charges related to his role as the ringleader of...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today, charging Andres Guzman, 27, of Southern California, with possessing cocaine with intent to distribute, Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. According to court documents, on August 1, 2013...

FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today charging Victor Torres-Romero, 24, of Ceres, and Luis Bartolo Madriz-Sandoval, 32, of Everett, Wash., with conspiring to possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced...

FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a single count indictment today, charging Phouvanh Vongsenekeo, 25, of Phoenix, with manufacturing and possessing with the intent to distribute one hundred or more marijuana plants and one hundred or more kilograms of marijuana, between July 9, 2013, and August 9, 2013...