PORTLAND, ORE- - Jose Juis (a/k/a Ricardo Ochoa Renteria), 32, of Salem, Oregon, was sentenced today to 156 months in prison and a $1 million money judgment, for his role as the leader of an international drug trafficking (DTO). During the fall of 2008, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) initiated an...

SEATTLE, WA - Three men, who were extradited from Colombia following an undercover investigation led by the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), were convicted of drug trafficking and money laundering charges in Seattle following a two week jury trial. The investigation involved a multi-ton cocaine drug trafficking conspiracy. The jury deliberated...

CRYSTAL CITY, TX -- - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas E. Hinojosa and United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced that federal, state and local authorities have arrested 10 individuals in the Crystal City area on federal drug trafficking charges. Those arrested yesterday include: 24-year-old...

ANCHORAGE, AK - - Pharmaceutical drugs can be as dangerous as street drugs. The majority of teenagers get pharmaceuticals from family and friends - and the home medicine cabinet. The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its community partners throughout Alaska will provide to the public a safe, free and anonymous...

SEATTLE - Pharmaceutical drugs can be as dangerous as street drugs. The majority of teenagers get pharmaceuticals from family and friends - and the home medicine cabinet. The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its community partners throughout Washington will provide to the public a safe, free and anonymous way to...

BOISE - Pharmaceutical drugs can be as dangerous as street drugs. The majority of teenagers get pharmaceuticals from family and friends - and the home medicine cabinet. The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its community partners throughout Idaho will provide to the public a safe, free and anonymous way to...

Acting Special Agent In Charge Thomas Hinojosa will be participating in a National Prescription Take Back Press Conference, April 27, 2011 at 2:30 p.m., at the DEA Houston Field Office, located at 1433 West Loop South, in the 1 st floor training room. He, along with invited guest Harris County...

PORTLAND, ORE. - - Pharmaceutical drugs can be as dangerous as street drugs. The majority of teenagers get pharmaceuticals from family and friends - and the home medicine cabinet. The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its community partners throughout Oregon will provide to the public a safe, free and anonymous...

BENTON, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on April 22, 2011, a Centralia, Illinois, man, convicted of various crack cocaine charges, was sentenced to 180 (15 years), in federal prison. Frederick L. Webster, 49, of Centralia, Illinois, previously pleaded...

A NCHORAGE, AK - On April 22, 2011, Ricky Alan Reese, 52, a resident of Anchorage, was sentenced to life in prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and attempted possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. Reese was convicted by a trial jury in February 2011. At the time...