SULLIVAN CITY, TX - Former Sullivan City Police Chief Hernan Guerra has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison without parole for drug-trafficking, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas Hinojosa and United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. United States District Judge Randy Crane sentenced...

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO. - On April 14 and 15, federal agents led by the DEA, working closely with local and state law enforcement, arrested 15 people from Southern Colorado who had been named in four separate indictments by a federal grand jury in Denver for drug trafficking offenses. The arrests...

United States Attorney Barbara McQuade and U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Robert L. Corso announced today a settlement between the government and Harvard Drug Group, LLC, which resolves allegations that Harvard violated the Controlled Substances (CSA). Harvard is alleged to have violated the CSA by failing to...

SACRAMENTO, CA - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that a federal grand jury returned a single-count indictment today charging Manuel Humberto Lopez-Camacho, 36, and Ernesto Alonso Soto-Gonzalez, 23, both of Phoenix, with possessing heroin with the intent...

FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced that a federal grand jury returned a four-count second superseding indictment today charging Timothy Duane, 30, Lorena Duane, 26, Bounsou Vorasane, 50, and Kay Viengkham, 53, all of Fresno...

FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced that John Richard Shanks, 62, of Bakersfield, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to 20 months in prison, to be followed by three years...

FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Walter Watts III, 42, of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to tax evasion. This case is the product of an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Fresno County Sheriff's Department. Assistant United...

FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Gerardo Norzagaray-Pereda, 31, of Mexico, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute heroin and methamphetamine. This case is the product of an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department. Assistant United States Attorney Elana...

FRESNO, CA -- - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced today that Juvenal Paredes Sanchez, 36, of Merced County, pleaded guilty today to using a communication (cellular phone) in furtherance of a marijuana cultivation and distribution conspiracy. This...

FRESNO, CA -- - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced today that Shirley Wong, aka Ngoc Li Vuong, 43, of San Jose, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for conspiring to commit mail fraud in connection...