United States Drug Enforcement Administration

MAR 06 - BANGOR, 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 that Mark Tasker, 49, of Dexter, Maine, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 10...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On March 6 Fitzroy Turner, 35, of Greeneville was sentenced by J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 127 months in federal prison following a conviction for his leadership role in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of cocaine base “crack” in the Eastern District...

NEW YORK - - Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Manuel Geovanny Rodriguez-Perez, a/k/a “Shorty,” was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain to spend the remainder of his life in prison for his role as a leader of a...

HOUSTON - Two Mexican nationals who resided in Houston have been ordered to prison for life following their convictions of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent-in-Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Pedro Herrara-Alvarado, 39, pleaded guilty May...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 44-year-old Brownsville man entered a guilty plea in Corpus Christi federal court to possession with the intent to distribute 14 kilograms of cocaine, announced the Special Agent-in-Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the Houston Division of the DEA, and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Authorities arrested Luis...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Richard Duane Johns, 49, of Little Rock pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute oxycodone without an effective prescription. John, a former doctor, was responsible for illegally distributing at least 39,000 pills, with a street value of more than $1,000,000. Johns pleaded guilty Thursday before a Chief...

MOBILE, Ala. - A jury has convicted defendants Xiulu Ruan and John Patrick Couch of numerous felonies following a seven-week trial, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Stephen G. Azzam and United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown. Ruan and Couch jointly owned and operated two pain management clinics under the name Physicians...

TRENTON, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and New Jersey State Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino announced the indictment of a doctor from Passaic County for selling prescriptions of Oxycodone to patients, including those he knew to be...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas - A federal grand jury has returned a second superseding indictment against the highest ranking leaders of the Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle (OMO), adding four new defendants and additional murder-related charges. That announcement was made today by United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Western District of Texas...

MAR 02 - NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Bernardo Roman-Rolan, also known as “Benny,” 41, of North Haven, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford, Connecticut to 68 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine. Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in...