ALEXANDRIA, VA. - Twelve individuals have been indicted as members of a Virginia-based international drug trafficking organization that has utilized a distribution network to smuggle cocaine from Mexico to northern Virginia. This indictment was the latest in an ongoing investigation that has previously led to the conviction of 41 individuals...

BALTIMORE, MD. - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Raymond Eggleston, 51, of Hanover, Maryland, to 151 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base. The sentence was announced by Special Agent in...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A former captain in the U.S. Army Reserve stationed in Afghanistan was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for soliciting $1.3 million in bribes from contractors involved in U.S.-funded reconstruction efforts and participating in a conspiracy to traffic heroin from Southeast Asia. The sentence was announced...

GREENBELT, MD. - On September 1, 2011, Stanley Needleman, age 68, of Pikesville, Maryland, pled guilty to tax evasion and structuring financial transactions to avoid reporting large cash receipts and deposits. The guilty plea was announced by Special Agent in Charge Ava Cooper-Davis of the Drug Enforcement Administration Washington Field...

GREENBELT, MD. - U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams, Jr. sentenced Wilson Lee Garrett, age 37, of Waldorf, Maryland, who was a legal assistant at the Department of Justice when he was arrested in 2009, to serve 248 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to...

BALTIMORE, MD. - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced, Eric Brown, aka “E” and “EB,” age 42, of Baltimore, late yesterday to 12 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for a conspiracy to conduct and participate in the activities of the Black Guerilla (BGF)...

BALTIMORE, MD. - Special Agent in Charge Ava Cooper-Davis of the Drug Enforcement Administration, United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein, Baltimore City State’s Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein; and Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III announced the sentencing of Umar Burley to 15 years in...

NEWPORT NEWS, VA. - Thirty-five individuals have been indicted as part of an ongoing investigation into major heroin trafficking rings operating throughout the Virginia Peninsula. To date, 72 federal defendants and more than 100 related state defendants have been charged as part of this investigation. Ava Cooper-Davis, Special Agent in...

ALEXANDRIA, VA. - The leader and members of an international heroin trafficking ring have been charged with using couriers to smuggle heroin from Ghana into the United States, a sign of the growth of West Africa as a major hub for international drug trafficking. Today’s charges were made public after...

BALTIMORE, MD. - On June 21, 2011, U.S. District Judge Benson Everett Legg sentenced April Lynn Baker, age 30, of Greencastle, Pennsylvania, formerly of Clear Spring, Maryland, to three years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute, and distributing, morphine and methadone, the use...