United States Drug Enforcement Administration

FRESNO, Calif. - On January 28, 2013, U.S. District Judge Anthony W. Ishii sentenced David Chavez Jr., 32, of Bakersfield, to four years in prison for using a communication (telephone) in connection with a drug trafficking offense. He pleaded guilty on September 24, 2012. As part of the plea agreement...

FRESNO, Calif. - Brothers Edwan Dablan, 37, of Kingsburg, and Khamal Dablan, 25, of Selma, pleaded guilty on Monday to participating in a long-term methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Edwan Dablan also pleaded...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Floyd Everett Harshman, 54, of Fairbanks, Alaska was sentenced in federal court for three counts of drug trafficking and one count of possessing a firearm in furtherance of the drug trafficking crimes. Harshman was sentenced to 120 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release...

POCATELLO, Idaho - Jose Tapia-Lopez, 29, a Mexican national formerly living in Heyburn, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 168 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. Tapia-Lopez was also ordered to serve five years of supervised release...

PHILADELPHIA - Richard Minicozzi, M.D., 79, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to seven years in prison for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and 17 counts of distribution of controlled substances for running a pill mill out of his office located at 731 Morris Street in Philadelphia. Minicozzi was distributing (“Vicodin”)...

PHILADELPHIA - Joseph McIntyre, 38, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to six months incarceration for his role in a conspiracy to illegally distribute anabolic steroids. McIntyre, a former Philadelphia Police Officer, was charged in an indictment that named 14 others including fellow officers Keith Gidelson and George Sambuca. McIntyre pleaded...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas - - Norma Alicia Gallegos, 30, and her husband Jose Carlos Aguilar, 32, have been sentenced for their roles in a large-scale international cocaine trafficking conspiracy, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier F. Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Gallegos aka “La Muchacha”...

HOUSTON - - Houston Police Officers Emerson Canizales, 26, of Kingwood, and Michael Miceli, 26, of Humble, have been arrested following the return of an indictment charging conspiracy to violate the Hobbs Act and conspiracy to possess a controlled substance, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier F. Peña...

BOSTON - John J. Arvanitis, the Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Carmen Ortiz, United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts announced seven individuals were charged today in federal court with conspiracy to distribute Oxycodone. Charged in a criminal complaint with the...

FORT WORTH, Texas - Following an afternoon of testimony before U.S. District Judge John McBryde, and five hours of deliberation, a federal jury convicted Josue Martinez-Garcia, aka “Cholo,” of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine. Martinez-Garcia, 29, of Fort Worth, Texas, faces...