United States Drug Enforcement Administration

LOS ANGELES - A 28-year-old woman arrested early this morning at Los Angeles International Airport has been charged with trying to smuggle at least a kilogram of cocaine to her hometown of Detroit. Kennsha Mason, 28, was arrested by special agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration after boarding a Spirit...

BEAUMONT, Texas - The DEA Special Agent-in-Charge of the Houston Division, Joseph M. Arabit, and Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston announced today that four individuals have been arrested following a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas. A federal grand jury returned an indictment, which was...

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Two Richmond, Kentucky residents have been sentenced for conspiring to distribute large quantities of fentanyl. U.S. Senior District Court Judge Joseph M. Hood sentenced Travis B. Preston, to 11 years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute 40 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing...

MAR 07 - 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 Nathan Brewer, 35, of Presque Isle, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock...

WASHINGTON - A senior paramilitary leader and one of Colombia’s most notorious drug traffickers was sentenced on Friday to serve 198 months in prison for his role leading an international drug trafficking conspiracy responsible for the importation of ton-quantities of cocaine into the United States. DEA Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg...

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 Kelli Mujo, 31, of Harmony and Wellington, Maine and Central Falls, Rhode Island, was sentenced today in U.S. District...

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...