United States Drug Enforcement Administration

DETROIT - The U.S. Department of Justice has designated the week of September 19, 2016, as National Heroin and Opioid Awareness Week. During this week, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) offices and U.S. Attorney’s Offices across the country will be participating in programs to increase public awareness of the growing epidemic...

DALLAS - Adrian Sanchez, 40, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey to 262 months in federal prison following his guilty plea in March 2016 to an Information charging one count of possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney John...

SEP 16 - BOSTON - Two men were charged in an indictment unsealed yesterday in connection with a large-scale marijuana distribution and money laundering ring operating between California and the East Coast. Virayuth Chau, a/k/a David Chau, 40, of Temecula, Calif., was indicted on one count of conspiracy to distribute...

SEP 16 - BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Mark Leigh-James, 24, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill...

ASHEVILLE - , NC - On Tuesday, September 6, 2016, U.S. District Max O. Cogburn, Jr. sentenced two sisters to 87 months in prison and five years of supervised release on drug trafficking charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Melissa Sigmon, 29...

BATON ROUGE, La. - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced yesterday that Aaron Lambert, 33, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and money laundering. During a September 13, 2016, hearing, Lambert entered his plea before a Chief U.S. District...

(LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Special Agent in Charge Timothy J. Plancon, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Detroit Field Office, joined by United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr., Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer, and Louisville Metro Police Chief Steve Conrad, announced a new collaborative investigation and prosecution program to remove heroin dealers from the...

CLEVELAND - Two men from Mexico were charged in U.S. District Court after federal and state law enforcement personnel seized more than 200 pounds of cocaine in Cleveland on September 2nd, 2016. Antonio Navarro-Gaytan and Alejandro Cota-Luna appeared in federal court on September 7th, 2016, and were charged with conspiracy...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Francisco Sanchez, 37 of Rogers, Arkansas was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Matthew Barden and Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Tiauna Castro, 27, of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to participating in a conspiracy to launder the proceeds from the illegal sale of dangerous painkillers, including oxycodone, in central Ohio. Benjamin C. Glassman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of...