COLUMBUS, Ohio - A United States District Court jury convicted Frederick A. McShan, 37, and David McShan, 42, both of Steubenville, Ohio, of running a heroin-trafficking organization. Specifically, Frederick McShan was convicted of one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than one kilogram of heroin, 12...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - DEA Special Agent-in-Charge Timothy J. Plancon and U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn Jr. announced today that a Louisville man has been charged by grand jury indictment with intentionally distributing heroin to a person whose death and serious bodily injury resulted from the use of that substance. “This...

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Two Richmond, Kentucky residents have been sentenced for conspiring to distribute large quantities of fentanyl. U.S. Senior District Court Judge Joseph M. Hood sentenced Travis B. Preston, to 11 years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute 40 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing...

WASHINGTON - A senior paramilitary leader and one of Colombia’s most notorious drug traffickers was sentenced on Friday to serve 198 months in prison for his role leading an international drug trafficking conspiracy responsible for the importation of ton-quantities of cocaine into the United States. DEA Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Law enforcement officials announced today that a Cleveland man was indicted in federal court on charges that he sold heroin that caused at least two overdoses in Wooster, Ohio. Demetrius L. Frizzell, 30, was indicted on six counts: two counts of distribution of heroin, one count of...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Law enforcement officials announced today that six people were indicted in federal court for their roles in a drug conspiracy that resulted in the seizure of 17 kilograms of cocaine and more than $500,000 in cash. Named in the seven-count indictment are: Marty V. McCaulley, 42, of...

WASHINGTON D.C. - China’s National Narcotics Control Commission announced this week that scheduling controls against four fentanyl-class substances - carfentanil, furanyl fentanyl, valeryl fentanyl, and acryl fentanyl - will begin on March 1, 2017. This announcement is the culmination of ongoing collaboration between the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the Government...

WASHINGTON - DEA and the Southern District of New York today announced the arrival of four individuals from Kenya to New York charged with participating in a massive global drug trafficking enterprise, and includes the leader of a well-known organized crime family in Africa. BAKTASH AKASHA ABDALLA, a/k/a “Baktash Akasha,”...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Today the United States Attorney’s Office For the Southern District of Ohio unsealed a plea agreement with the owner and operator of Columbus Southern Medical Center, which provided unlawful prescriptions of controlled substances to numerous individuals who were addicted to drugs, in Ohio and surrounding states. The...

LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Tennessee man has been sentenced to 188 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute massive quantities of marijuana and cocaine in central Kentucky, and conspiring to launder approximately one million dollars in illegal drug proceeds. On Thursday, January 26th, 2017, U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell...