LAFAYETTE, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge Eric Watson and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that 12 people were indicted Wednesday in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy in Lafayette and the surrounding areas. Those named in the 15-count indictment are: Jeremy David Hamlett, 37...

BATON ROUGE, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge Eric Watson and United States Attorney Walt Green announced the unsealing of an indictment returned by a federal grand jury. The indictment is against 11 defendants in a year-long operation and investigation into a drug-trafficking conspiracy involving...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A federal jury sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., returned a verdict late yesterday afternoon finding Gabriel Mirabal guilty on narcotics trafficking and firearms charges after a six-day trial. The guilty verdict was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy of DEA’s...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Thirty-four individuals are facing federal and tribal drug charges as the result of an 18-month multi-agency investigation spearheaded by the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Bureau of Indian (BIA) into methamphetamine trafficking on the Mescalero Apache Reservation. Eighteen defendants, including five members of the Mescalero Apache Tribe...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Victor Hurtado, 21, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 141 months in federal prison for his conviction on Hobbs Act, drug trafficking and firearms charges arising out of a pharmacy robbery in Jan. 2015, and a traffic stop in March 2015. Hurtado will...

McCOMB, Miss. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Daniel Comeaux and U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today Dr. Lawrence Edsel Stewart, 59, of McComb, has been charged in a 27-count federal indictment with violations of knowingly and intentionally distributing and dispensing schedule II, III, and IV...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special Agent in Charge Thomas G. Atteberry, ATF Phoenix Field Division, and Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy, DEA El Paso Division announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a three-count indictment charging Albuquerque resident Davon Lymon, 34, with...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Joseph Shepherd and U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Ruston man was sentenced Wednesday to 147 months in prison for his role in a cocaine conspiracy that stretched across north Louisiana and led to the seizure of...

NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that Jermaine Reynolds, age 39, of Long Beach, Mississippi; David Humphries, age 46, of Baltimore, Maryland; and Marlon Barnes, age 39, of New Orleans; were sentenced today for conspiring to distribute...

NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that Melvin Jackson, age 35, of Ponchatoula was sentenced today for his participation in a drug conspiracy and his participation in a May 11, 2012, shooting and robbery that took place...