SUMTER, S.C. - Fourteen people have been arrested and five others are being sought after a year-long heroin investigation. The joint investigation between the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Sumter County Sheriff's Office, was initiated by city investigators between April and May 2013 after receiving a growing number of...

APR 02 (NEW ORLEANS) - Twelve individuals indicted in the Eastern District of Louisiana face drug and conspiracy charges as a result of an extensive three-year investigation that targeted a heroin drug trafficking organization in New Orleans, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U. S...

ATLANTA - Adrian Banks has been arraigned on federal charges relating to the manufacture of PCP which led to a dangerous house fire when the clandestine laboratory exploded. Coleman Warnock, a second defendant named in the indictment, is being sought by law enforcement. Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in...

MAR (ATLANTA) - Jason Cole Votrobek and Roland Rafael Castellanos have been convicted after a month-long jury trial on federal drug and money laundering charges for owning and operating a “pill mill” pain clinic which served as a front for the mass distribution of addictive pain killers. Votrobek had previously...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Jose Chavez and Ely Ramirez-Sanchez were arrested on Friday, March 7, 2014 in Buncombe County and face drug trafficking charges in connection with the seizure of approximately 1,400 pounds of marijuana, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. A criminal complaint...

COLUMBUS, Ga. - U. S. Attorney Michael J. Moore announced today that Celeste Smith, 38, of Statham, Georgia, as well as Jessica Wise, 28, Antwan Byrd, 30, and Jerry Cooper, 64, of Athens, Georgia, were charged, on March 12, 2014, in United States District Court in Macon, in multiple-count indictments...

GULFPORT, Miss. - Four individuals indicted in the Southern District of Mississippi face various drug charges as the result of an extensive three-year drug investigation that targeted an illegal prescription drug ring, announced Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown with the Drug Enforcement Administration - New Orleans Field Division and...

ROME, Ga. - Gerald Young and Rodney Strachan, two Florida men who supplied large amounts of the prescription narcotic Oxycodone to pill distributors in northwest Georgia, have been sentenced to prison. Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Atlanta Field Division commented on the case, "One...

ATLANTA - Jerome Bushay has been sentenced to prison for trafficking more than 185,000 pills of (MDMA), methamphetamine, (which is a drug similar to ecstasy), and ketamine. Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Atlanta Field Division stated, "Ecstasy is anything but what its name implies...

ATLANTA - Dwayne Penn, formerly a police officer with the Clayton County Police Department assigned to the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force, was sentenced today to ten years of prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine. Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Atlanta Field Division...