CLEVELAND - A federal grand jury returned a 42-count indictment against 13 people who are accused of participating in a large-scale heroin trafficking ring in the Ashtabula areas and resulted in the overdose death of an Ashtabula resident last year. The unsealing of the indictment was announced today by Steven...

ASHLAND, Ky. - A federal jury convicted a Florida doctor of conspiring with a pain clinic owner and others to illegally prescribe hundreds of thousands of pills to Kentucky residents. The Ashland jury convicted 57-year-old Dr. Clara S. Rodriguez-Iznaga of conspiracies to distribute controlled substances, and to launder money. The...

SAN DIEGO - On December 13, 2012, San Diego Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge William R. Sherman and San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis announced the results of a 21-month operation, dubbed Operation Knight Stalker, which targeted legacy members of the La Familia Michoacá(LFM) drug cartel...

CINCINNATI - Nancy Sadler, 49, of West Portsmouth, Ohio was sentenced to 210 months in federal prison for operating Ohio Medical and Pain Management, LLC, a “pill mill” in Waverly, Ohio. Her husband, Lester, aka “Ape”, Sadler, 56, was sentenced to 151 months in prison followed by three years of...

SAN DIEGO - This morning, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) San Diego Field Division’s Narcotics Task (NTF) along with the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department and Health Advocates Rejecting Marijuana, (HARM) announce the total amount of illegal marijuana plants seized in San Diego County in 2012. During calendar year 2012, NTF...

CLEVELAND - The leader of a multi-state drug conspiracy that sent millions of dollars worth of highly addictive prescription painkillers to all 50 states was sentenced to more than eight years in prison and ordered to pay $3.8 million in restitution, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern...

CLEVELAND - A federal jury convicted three people of crimes related to a multi-state drug conspiracy that sent millions of dollars’ worth of highly addictive prescription painkillers to all 50 states, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. With today’s guilty verdicts, 13 people...

SAN DIEGO - In summer of 2010, the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Narcotics Task (NTF) Team 9 was conducting routine aerial surveillance when they happened to spot a remote marijuana farm in Julian. Agents cut down the massive crop with machetes, arrested four crop tenders and found lots of items left...

PONTIAC, Mich. - A Pontiac man was sentenced to life in prison today for his role in a 2010 murder for hire plot that began in Pontiac, Michigan, and ended with a violent shooting death in Littleton, Colorado, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. Joining McQuade in the announcement...

SAN DIEGO & IMPERIAL, Calif. - The final tally is in from the 5th National Prescription Take-Back Day this past Saturday, September 29, 2012. DEA and its partners took back prescription drugs at 38 locations in San Diego County and three locations in Imperial County. Over the course of four...