COLUMBIA, SC. - United States Attorney Bill Nettles announced today, at a press conference held at 2:00 pm in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Greenville, that $3,085,386 dollars in seized assets stemming from an upstate drug prosecution from 2004 through 2006 has been dispersed among several state and local law...

DALLAS, TX - Federal, state, and local law enforcement officials have joined forces in a series of coordinated strikes against Mexican drug cartels and their associates who operate across the United States. Operations in Central America, Colombia, and Brazil are also ongoing. DEA and its law enforcement counterparts have mobilized...

COLUMBIA, SC. - United States Attorney Bill Nettles and Rodney G. Benson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) Atlanta Field Division, announced today that John Truman Poole, Jr, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, entered a guilty plea yesterday in federal court in Greenville, South Carolina, on the charge...

ROME, GA. - Roderick McCullough, 39, of Cedartown, Georgia, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Harold L. Murphy to federal prison on charges of operating a drug distribution ring in northwest Georgia. McCullough is the final defendant sentenced out of seven individuals convicted in the scheme. “We removed...

COLUMBUS, GA. - The United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, Michael J. Moore, announced today that Robert Woods, age 38, of Auburn, Alabama, was sentenced before the Honorable Clay D. Land, United States District Judge. Woods pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute cocaine base in...

VALDOSTA, GA. - United States Attorney Michael J. Moore, Middle District of Georgia, announces the sentencing of Corey Faison, age 32, of Valdosta, on January 27, 2011, before the Honorable Hugh Lawson, United States District Judge, and also the sentencing of Jerome Fletcher, age 40, of Albany, and Joe Nathan...

GAINESVILLE, GA. - L'Houssain Mahdioui, 37, of Amsterdam, Netherlands, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge William O’Kelley to federal prison on charges of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and the importation of LSD into the United States. Mahdioui, who was extradited to the...

SAVANNAH, GA. - Andre Jamaal Guyton, of Ludowici, Georgia, was sentenced by District Court Judge William T. Moore Jr. to 210 months imprisonment following his conviction on two counts of distributing controlled substances in Liberty County. The case was tried before Judge Moore on October 13, 2010, and he announced...

ATLANTA, GA. - In a brief presentation at the Drug Enforcement (DEA) Atlanta Division today, millions of dollars in seized assets from the two-year investigation code-named Operation Four Horsemen were distributed to law enforcement agencies who contributed hours and efforts in the case. The investigation was led by DEA and...

ATLANTA, GA. - In the past 24 hours, federal, state and local law enforcement agencies of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task (OCDETF), have concluded search and arrest actions in Cobb County and today, with the United States Attorney’s Office, announce that 15 individuals have been indicted for alleged drug...