United States Drug Enforcement Administration

(PHOENIX) - The DEA announced the arrest of two individuals as a result of a two-year investigation into a Douglas area drug trafficking ring. Agents from the DEA’s Sierra Vista Resident Office coordinated a multi-agency enforcement operation today, serving three state of Arizona authorized warrants at two residences and one...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Leitscha Poncedeleon, 28, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, five kilograms or more of cocaine, before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci. The charge carries a minimum...

MACON, Ga. – United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, Charles E. Peeler, announces that Delma Goddard, a/k/a “Shug” and “Big Hxmie” age 38, of Milledgeville, Georgia, was found guilty by a jury of his peers of Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute more than 280 Grams...

(OMAHA, Neb) - Matthew R. Barden, the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the DEA Omaha Division today announced that a prolific heroin trafficker who was responsible for two overdoses, one of which ultimately turned fatal, was sentenced to over 27 years in federal prison. Donald Johnson (a.k.a. Scony), a...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Special Agent in Charge James Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division announced today that a federal jury convicted Michael Elder, 38, of Tonawanda, N.Y., of possession with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine, possession...

DETROIT – Law enforcement officials arrested 14 individuals today in “Operation Purple Drank.” A West Bloomfield doctor and Monroe Patient Recruiter were sentenced to 72 months and 144 months in prison, respectively, for conspiring to unlawfully distribute prescription narcotics, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider. Schneider was joined in the...

LAKE WORTH, Fla. - Roberto Paul Mendoza, 28, of Palm Beach County, pleaded guilty yesterday to three counts of distribution of heroin, carfentanyl, and cocaine; one count of possession with intent to distribute heroin; and one count of knowingly possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. According to the...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Federal authorities this morning concluded a 2½-year wiretap investigation into a drug trafficking organization based in the Coachella Valley by arresting eight defendants linked to the distribution of wholesale quantities of methamphetamine. The eight people arrested today by special agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration are among...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Federal authorities this morning concluded a 2½-year wiretap investigation into a drug trafficking organization based in the Coachella Valley by arresting eight defendants linked to the distribution of wholesale quantities of methamphetamine. The eight people arrested today by special agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration are among...

WACO, Texas - In Waco today, a federal jury convicted 38-year-old Juan Francisco “Kiko” Trevino Chavez, nephew of Los Zetas leaders Miguel Angel Trevino Morales (Z-40) and Oscar Omar Trevino Morales (Z-42), of drug trafficking, firearms and money laundering charges, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash; Houston DEA Special...