United States Drug Enforcement Administration

PENSACOLA, Fla. - A federal grand jury returned two indictments on April 16, 2013, charging 12 individuals with methamphetamine and pseudoephedrine related conspiracy offenses. The indictments were announced by Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for...

Date: April 19, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 LEXINGTON, Ky. - Kerry B. Harvey, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and Robert L. Corso, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA) jointly announced today that a physician from Prestonsburg, Ky., paid the U.S. Government $50,000...

INDIANAPOLIS - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the Howard County Prosecutor’s Office announced today felony charges against the owners and employees of the Wagoner Medical Center. The Wagoner Medical Center has offices in Burlington and Kokomo, Indiana. The charges arise out of an intensive investigation by the DEA, Kokomo Police...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Darrell Davis, also known as “Baller,” 34, of West Haven, was sentenced today by Senior United States...

FRESNO, Calif. - An indictment was unsealed today following the arrests of nine individuals who are charged in a drug trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today. On April 11, 2013, a federal grand jury returned a 29-count indictment charging 13 defendants with conspiracy to manufacture, distribute...

SEATTLE - Jeremy Peter Capodanno, 36, was arrested late yesterday following his indictment last week for manufacturing marijuana, and two counts for discharging and possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug crime. On December 6, 2012, Capodanno shot two people who had broken into the garage of his Puyallup residence...

WASHINGTON - - DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the unsealing of charges against Antonio Indjai, the head of the Guinea-Bissau Armed Forces, for conspiring to provide aid to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de (the...

Date: April 17, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 WARREN, Ohio - Nineteen separate federal indictments were unsealed today, charging 55 people with various violations of federal narcotics and/or firearms laws in and around Warren, Ohio, law enforcement officials announced. At the same time, an additional 42 people...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A physician’s assistant who operated a mobile health clinic based in Hesperia was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison for distributing the powerful and widely abused prescription narcotic OxyContin following an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration. Christopher Henry Lister, 51, of Victorville, was sentenced...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - United States District Judge William B. Shubb sentenced Uriel Ochoa-Espindola, 44, of Fresno, today to 17 and a half years in prison for his part in a marijuana trafficking conspiracy, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B...