WARREN, Mich - Drug overdoses are the leading cause of injury-related death here in the United States. In an effort to address the opioid epidemic, there will be a town hall meeting discussing the heroin and opioid prescription epidemic. This meeting is open to the public and the following law...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Joy McShan Edwards, 37, of Steubenville, was convicted in U.S. District Court today of retaliation against a witness. Benjamin C. Glassman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Timothy J. Plancon, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, and U.S. Marshal Pete Tobin announced the...

AMARILLO, Texas - An Atlanta, Georgia, man, Jaime Bowling, 28, was sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 135 months in federal prison for his role in the distribution of methamphetamine, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Drug Enforcement Administration and...

AMARILLO, Texas - Arturo Salazar, Jr., 41, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to serve a total of 248 months in federal prison following his guilty plea in September 2017 to one count of possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine and...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Alfonzo Dewayne Johnson, 43, of Muskegon, was sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release. Johnson pled guilty last year to conspiracy to distribute cocaine and...

AMARILLO, Texas - Rogelio Xochitl Amparan, 29, was sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 189 months in federal prison terms for his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Attorney...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged David L. Dobbins, 38, of Urbancrest, Ohio, with seven charges related to distributing heroin, fentanyl and cocaine - including distribution that resulted in death - in a superseding indictment returned on November 30th, 2017. Benjamin C. Glassman, United States Attorney for...

LUBBOCK - Four Lubbock residents have been charged in a federal indictment, unsealed today, with felony offenses stemming from their role in a furanyl fentanyl distribution conspiracy, announced Special Agent-in-Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Dallas Division of the DEA and U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern...

AMARILLO, Texas - Eduardo Gutierrez-Zamora, 31, of Amarillo, Texas, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 210 months in federal prison on a methamphetamine distribution conviction, announced Special Agent-in-Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Dallas Division of the DEA and Erin Nealy Cox, U.S. Attorney...

CINCINNATI - Michael Chandler, 29, of Cincinnati, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 200 months in prison for distributing fentanyl. As part of his sentence, Chandler was also ordered to pay more than $9,000 in restitution to cover the funeral costs for an overdose death that resulted from Chandler’s...