United States Drug Enforcement Administration

LAREDO, Texas - A total of four drug traffickers have been sentenced for their convictions related to a drug trafficking conspiracy involving methamphetamine and heroin, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Santos Arturo Ortiz, 28, Armando Bautista Jr...

LONDON, Ky. - The leader of a large-scale drug trafficking organization, which brought prescription drugs from Mexico to eastern Kentucky and northern Tennessee for nearly 15 years, has been sentenced to 180 months in federal prison. On July 2nd, 2015, U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove sentenced 60 year-old...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, a total of 12 members and associates of the Bloods street gang located in Queens, New York, including Covel Duncan, a New York State Corrections Officer at Riker’s Island, were arrested on narcotics trafficking charges. The defendants’ initial appearances are scheduled this afternoon before United...

WACO, Texas - A federal district judge sentenced four Aryan (AB) members and associates to federal prison for their roles in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division, Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and Federal Bureau of...

PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced thatMarco Gordon, 34, of Portland and Detroit, Michigan, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to conspiring to distribute 28 grams or more...

CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced that Todd Burke, 52, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was sentenced today to 28 months in prison by the United States District Court. The court’s sentence...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Joel Perrin Robinson has been sentenced to eight years in prison for shooting a DEA special agent serving a search warrant at Robinson's house. Agents had obtained the warrant to search his home for chemicals used to manufacture PCP. “This investigation is a reminder of the dangers...

TAMPA, Fla. - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Brian C. (56, Melbourne) to eight years and one month in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute and dispense oxycodone not in the usual course of professional practice. The Court also ordered him to forfeit his Florida pharmacist license...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Michael Ray Mangum, 43, of Kingsport, Tenn., was sentenced on July 2, 2015, by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 120 months in federal prison for his role in an extensive a-(alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone) distribution conspiracy centered in and around the Sullivan County area...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., Western District of New York, announced today that Fannie Long, 53, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, was sentenced to 96...