CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The head of a Mexican drug trafficking (DTO) responsible for producing and distributing vast quantities of heroin into the United States was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr., announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Carlos...

DETROIT - U.S. Attorneys and leaders of federal law enforcement agencies from across six states met in Detroit on August 26, 2015, to share strategies to combat the heroin and prescription pill epidemic across the region. The effort was announced jointly by U.S. Attorneys Barbara L. McQuade, Eastern District of...

GREENVILLE, N.C. - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced today that a jury convicted Donald Jerome Parkeralso known as “DP”, 27of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, of two counts of distributing a quantity of cocaine (crack) and two counts of distributing 28 grams or more of cocaine (crack). The jury...

GAINESVILLE, Ga. - Lanier Treatment Center, Inc., a narcotic treatment program, located in Gainesville, Georgia, has agreed to pay a civil settlement of $20,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the recordkeeping requirements of the Controlled Substances Act. Lanier Treatment Center, Inc. also has agreed to additional oversight from the...

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 overdose - was convicted today of 79 federal drug trafficking charges. Julio Gabriel Diaz, 67, a Goleta resident who...

ATLANTA - Ricky Nuckles has been sentenced to 17 years, seven months in federal prison for trafficking 22 kilograms of cocaine and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of that offense. Nuckles was found guilty by a jury on May 13, 2015. “We have removed another cocaine trafficker off of...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - United States Attorney Bill Nettles announced today that a federal jury convicted Alfredo De Jesus Ramirez this afternoon of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine and 500 grams or more of a mixture containing methamphetamine. United...

BAINBRIDGE, Ga. - Leonard Hoskins, aged 42, of Bainbridge, Georgia, was sentenced on August 18, 2015 to serve 25 (300 months) in federal prison for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Leslie J. Abrams, United States District Court Judge, in...

LOS ANGELES - One of the principal cocaine traffickers associated with an international narcotics ring was sentenced this morning to 20 years in federal prison. Zaid Wakil, 43, of Winston Salem, North Carolina, was sentenced by United States District Judge George H. Wu for his role in acquiring more than...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Richard McNeal Hillman, 54, of Kingsport, Tenn., was sentenced on August 13, 2015, by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 188 months in federal prison for his leadership role in an extensive a-(alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone) distribution conspiracy centered in northeast Tennessee, southwest Virginia and...