United States Drug Enforcement Administration

SAVANNAH, GA - A Garden City, Ga., clinic owner and CEO has been indicted for operating a clinic that provided a base from which a notorious “pill mill” doctor dispensed massive amounts of controlled substances. In a five-count indictment returned by a U.S. District Court grand jury, Jamesetta Whipple-Duncan, 58...

Harrisonburg, Va. – Two of the five defendants charged as part of a conspiracy that trafficked heroin from Maryland to Virginia leading to at least one fatal and one non-fatal overdose were sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Harrisonburg, Special Agent in Charge Jarod A. Forget of the Drug...

S AN ANTONIO - The United States Attorney’s Office has collected $792,000 in civil penalties as two more civil Controlled Substances Act (CSA) investigations have settled, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Gregg N. Sofer. These civil settlements, coupled...

SPOKANE, Wash., - Today, Todd Earl Bridges, age 38, a resident of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced to 180 month term of imprisonment for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of actual (pure) methamphetamine. United States District Judge Rosanna Malouf Peterson also ordered a 5 year term of...

PORTLAND, ME – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle announced that DEA 360 Maine in partnership with local coalitions and schools will be launching FREE after school youth dance programs in Maine starting in February. DEA 360 Strategy in Maine kicked off in December 2020...

ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey sentenced Denis Mikhlin to 108 months in prison today. The judge also ordered Mikhlin to pay restitution. The 41-year-old St. Louis County, Missouri, resident pleaded guilty in August to four felony counts of conspiracy, obtaining oxycodone and other opioid drugs by...

NEW YORK – Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division, Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Peter C. Fitzhugh, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of Homeland Security Investigations, and Dermot Shea...

NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson, and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig announced a federal grand jury today indicted an Essex County, New Jersey, man for narcotics offenses for operating a...

BOSTON – A Lawrence man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for fentanyl conspiracy and unlawful possession of firearms, including an AR-15 rifle. Ariel Pagan-Romero, 31, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin to 12 years in prison and five years of supervised release. In...

PROVIDENCE, RI – A Dominican national previously convicted in Massachusetts on drug trafficking charges and for illegally entering the United States was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence to eight years in federal prison for trafficking fentanyl, crack cocaine, and cocaine. In May 2018, Rhode Island State Police developed...