BOISE, Idaho - Rogelio Contreras Villasenor, 49, of Caldwell, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 41 months in prison for conspiracy to attempt to evade and defeat tax. United States District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Villasenor to serve three years of supervised release following his prison sentence and pay...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Billy Cooks, 36, aka “Red Dollaz,” pleaded guilty on December 12, 2014, to conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, namely methamphetamine, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Previously, Cooks’ co-conspirator, E’lala Frank, 36, also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering. A third conspirator, Dawud Johnson...

HONOLULU - Kali Lotoaiki Laulea, 33, of Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i County, Hawaii, was sentenced to 155 months imprisonment for three counts of methamphetamine distribution. A federal jury found Laulea guilty of the three charges in August of this year after a five-day trial. Florence T. Nakakuni, United States Attorney for the...

SEATTLE - Four men charged in July 2014 with two separate hash oil explosions pleaded guilty last week in U.S. District Court in Seattle. The charges relate to explosions in Bellevue on November 5, 2013, and in Kirkland on January 1, 2014. Sentencing hearings for the defendants are scheduled for...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Today, Baretta Faatafuga, 38, of Wasilla, Alaska, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 90 months in federal prison for his role in a heroin trafficking conspiracy. Faatafuga previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute more than 1.6 kilograms of heroin throughout the Anchorage area. As part...

BOISE, Idaho - Cesar Solorio-Solorio, 40, a Mexican national living in Shoshone, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to distribution of methamphetamine and unlawful possession of a firearm. According to court documents, on March 7, 2014, Solorio-Solorio sold one ounce of methamphetamine to a person assisting law...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Today, multiple indictments have been unsealed charging eight defendants in Texas, California, Arizona, and Alaska with conspiring to distribute large quantities of heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine in Alaska and also working together to launder money from the United States into Mexico. The first indictment charges two men...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles area physician pleaded not guilty to federal drug trafficking charges that allege he illegally distributed drugs, to include the powerful and addictive painkiller oxycodone. Dr. Daniel Cham, 47, was arraigned on a 31-count indictment late Thursday afternoon after he was arrested at his residence...

RENO, Nev. - A man who supervised and directed an illegal drug distribution operation in Reno from his home in southern California, was sentenced on Monday, Oct. 20, to 19½ years in federal prison and five years of supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden, for the District of...

LAS VEGAS - Victor Bruce, M.D., 49, who operates Swan Lake Medical Center in Las Vegas, was sentenced this afternoon to 46 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release for writing prescriptions for oxycodone for persons he did not see or treat. Bruce, who pleaded guilty in...