DETROIT, MI -- - An indictment charging 18 defendants with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana has been unsealed, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. McQuade was joined in the announcement by Robert L. Corso, Special Agent In Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Andrew G. Arena, Special...

SEATTLE, WASH-- - The leader of a Colombian cocaine trafficking organization was sentenced to 34 years in prison today in U.S. District Court in Seattle. Nivaldo Riascos Renteria, 41, is one of three men who were extradited from Colombia following an undercover investigation into a multi-ton cocaine trafficking conspiracy. In...

YAKIMA, WASH. -- - On September 21, 2011, the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) presented the very first Tribal Narcotics Officer of the year award to Yakama Nation Captain James Shike III. This award is sponsored by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and was presented to Captain Shike III at the...

TACOMA, WASH. - Bill Celeya Flores, 60, of Puyallup, Washington, was sentenced September 16, 2011, in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 57 months in prison and three years of supervised release for illegally possessing and distributing oxycodone and possession of a firearm by an unlawful use of a controlled...

ASHLAND, KY - A father and his two sons received federal prison sentences today for their roles in a scheme which involved importing kilograms of a drug comparable to methamphetamine from overseas and selling it in Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia. U.S. District Court Judge David L. Bunning sentenced 59-year-old...

ANCHORAGE, AK- - Jeremy Locklear, 28, a resident of Wasilla, Alaska, was sentenced on September 1, 2011, to 64 months in prison for attempted possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. The evidence established that Locklear is the nephew of Ricky Alan Reese, who in February 2011, was convicted...

BOWLING GREEN, KY - Two Mexican Nationals pled guilty in United States District Court on August 26 to charges of possession and conspiracy to possess five kilograms or more of cocaine, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky. Dagoberto Garcia-Guillen, age 21, and his...

SEATTLE, WASH-- - A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment on August 18, 2011, charging 18 subjects involved in a Sinaloa, Mexico drug trafficking organization with multiple conspiracy and/or firearms charges. The organization was smuggling heroin and methamphetamine into Arizona, and then transporting it for distribution as far east...

TACOMA, WASH. - On August 3, 2011, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration with the assistance of the Clark-Skamania Drug Task Force seized over 16 pounds of crystal methamphetamine and executed multiple search warrants in Vancouver, Wash. Ricardo Estrada, 43, of Vancouver, Wash., and Francisco Cervantes, 47, of Vancouver, Wash., were...

An indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Detroit was unsealed today, charging 26 individuals for their participation in a large-scale health care fraud and drug distribution scheme, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. McQuade was joined in her announcement by Special Agent in Charge Robert L...