ALEXANDRIA, La. – A senior leader of the Aryan Circle (AC) and a subordinate gang member pleaded guilty today and yesterday to being an accessory-after-the-fact to racketeering murder. David Wayne Williams, 38, of Sulphur, Louisiana, a senior leader in the gang, and Leland Hamm, 43, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, pleaded guilty...

LAFAYETTE, La. – A Lafayette man was sentenced Monday to nearly 3 years (151 months) in prison for conspiring to distribute multiple quantities of narcotics and illegal possessing a 9 mm handgun. Jacob Glen Collett, 35, of Lafayette, was sentenced by a U.S. District Judge on one count of conspiracy...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Four members of a drug trafficking organization based in Lee County pled guilty to charges against them on the second day of their trial. Their guilty pleas bring the total number of members of the DTO who have pled guilty in federal court to eighteen. A nineteenth...

NEW ORLEANS – Four River Parish residents, Andre Staggers, a/k/a “Dre,” age 44, Corey Session, age 44, Gregory London, Jr., a/k/a “Lil Gregg,” age 42, and Leonard Morrison, a/k/a “Leonard London,” age 36, were convicted today after a five-day trial in U.S. District Court. According to evidence presented at trial...

NEW ORLEANS - Jarvis Hardy, 29, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty this week to multiple charges that led to the shooting of a DEA task force officer. Hardy is charged with conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 280 grams or more of a mixture/substance containing...

EL PASO, Texas – United States District Judge David C. Guaderrama sentenced 33–year-old Javier Chanet Navarro to 10 years in federal prison on drug trafficking and firearms charges announced United States Attorney John F. Bash; Special Agent in Charge Kyle W. Williamson, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), El Paso Division...

EL PASO, Texas - A federal judge sentenced two brothers to decades in federal prison for their roles in an El Paso based drug trafficking organization announced United States Attorney John F. Bash; Special Agent in Charge Kyle W. Williamson, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), El Paso Division; and FBI...

JACKSON, Miss. - A Jackson man, Michael Gene Rushing, 58, was sentenced by a Senior U.S. District Judge to more than 17 years (210 months) in jail, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for producing child pornography and possession of child pornography, announced DEA Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Derryle Smith...

(BROOKLYN, N.Y.) - CVS Pharmacy, Inc. (“CVS”) has agreed to pay $1.5 million to resolve the United States’ investigation that certain of its pharmacy stores located in Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island violated the federal Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) by failing to timely report the loss or theft...

(NEW ORLEANS) - As a part of the largest Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action in Department of Justice history, the DEA and the Eastern District of Louisiana Strike Force announces charges against 11 individuals. In Baton Rouge, Louisiana the DEA and United States Attorney’s Office announced new charges against 26...