United States Drug Enforcement Administration

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - John Winton Harris, 31, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to 21 years and 10 months in prison for possessing more than 163 grams of crack cocaine. According to evidence presented at trial, Sacramento police officers responded to a...

SAN DIEGO - Sixty alleged members and associates of the Mexico-based Sinaloa Cartel - including the highest ranking leaders, lieutenants and operators of multiple distribution cells - are charged in 14 indictments unsealed today with trafficking huge quantities of methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and marijuana to points around the United States...

TAMPA, Fla. - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Antwon (39, Largo) to 15 years in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The Court also ordered Scott to forfeit the firearm and ammunition involved in the offense. He pleaded guilty...

TAMPA, Fla. - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Kewarren Lamar (44, Sarasota) to 20 years and 5 months in federal prison for distributing 28 grams or more of crack cocaine and a related violation of his federal supervised release. As part of his sentence, the Court also...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On January 15, 2015, defendant Javier Carrillo was arrested upon his arrival to the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport from the Dominican Republic. Carrillo supplied multi-kilogram loads of cocaine to the group of 10 defendants indicted on July 16, 2014, operation Voodoo Sam II, by...

(BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Frank Curtis, 35 - , formerly of Canaan, Maine pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to possess with...

(BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Barry Diaz - , 32, of Stamford, Connecticut, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, to...

BEAUMONT, Texas - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that the current head of the Mexican drug trafficking organization, the Gulf Cartel, or Cartel del Golfo, has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges in the Eastern...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas - In San Antonio today, a federal jury convicted 36-year-old Agustin Sergio Deleon Garza for his role in the kidnapping of a Mexican businessman in December 2013 announced Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the DEA’s Houston Division, Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin...

(BOSTON - A Miami man operating throughout South Florida was sentenced on January 9, 2015, for his role in an oxycodone distribution conspiracy involving thousands of oxycodone pills and stolen identities of Puerto Rican residents. Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Boston Field...