LOS ANGELES - A Rowland Heights doctor was sentenced to 30 years to life in state prison for prescribing large amounts of addictive and dangerous drugs to patients with no legitimate need, three of whom died of overdoses. Hsiu Ying “Lisa” Tseng, 46, was sentenced by Los Angeles County Superior...

LOS ANGELES - A medical doctor who served as the face of a sham Los Angeles clinic pleaded guilty today to federal drug trafficking and money laundering charges connected to her illegal distribution of the powerful painkiller best known by the brand name OxyContin. Dr. Madhu Garg, 64, of Glendora...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Michael Loren Sheaffer, 35, of Pinellas Park, Fla., and Matthew Shawn Sheaffer, 35, of Holiday, Fla., were both sentenced on Jan. 27, 2016, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to each serve 84 months in federal prison. Both Sheaffers were previously convicted of...

ATLANTA - Israel Garcia-Villanueva has been sentenced to over 17 years in prison for his involvement in a conspiracy to traffic over 400 kilograms of methamphetamine. He received shipments of methamphetamine and coordinated its delivery in Atlanta, Georgia, and throughout the Southeast. Daniel R. Salter, the Special Agent in Charge...

JONESBORO, Ga. - Clayton Judicial Circuit District Attorney Tracy Graham-Lawson, announced today that Dr. Narendra Kumar Nagareddy, was charged with Violation of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act, 16-13-41 by prescribing controlled substances while not acting in the usual course of his practice of Psychiatry and not prescribing same for a...

ATLANTA - Edgar Valdez-Villareal, 42, also known as “La Barbie,” who was born in the United States and rose to be a high-level leader of Mexico's Beltran-Leyva Cartel, pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of cocaine importation and distribution, and money laundering. “Since 2004, Edgar Valdez-Villarreal was responsible for the distribution...

LAS VEGAS - A local doctor who sold prescriptions for pain medications to persons who did not have a medical necessity for them, and deposited the cash proceeds in a manner designed to avoid tax laws, has been sentenced to two years in prison, three years of supervised release, and...

SANTA ANA, Calif. - A Santa Barbara-area physician who wrote numerous prescriptions for powerful painkillers for “patients” - many of whom were drug addicts, and some of whom died from drug overdoses - was sentenced today to 327 months in federal prison by United States District Judge Cormac J. Carney...

STATESVILLE, N.C. - Nine methamphetamine traffickers have been sentenced over a two-day period to prison terms ranging from one to 17.5 years, as a result of two related Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task (OCDETF) investigations, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. Attorney...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Nov. 30, 2015, Daniel Guy Bickley, 56, of Bristol, Va., was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 24 months in federal prison. Bickley was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release after his prison term and forfeit...