TAMPA, Fla. - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday has sentenced Octavius R. (35, St. Petersburg) to 20 years in federal prison for conspiring with others to possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. He pleaded guilty on December 16, 2014. According to court documents...

BOISE, Idaho - Jess Ramirez-Orta, 27, of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced on February 27, 2015, to eight years in prison for possession with intent to distribute heroin and methamphetamine. Ramirez-Orta’s girlfriend and co-defendant, Marina Morales, 24, also of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty...

SEATTLE - Two men whose hash oil manufacturing operation exploded on New Year’s Day 2014, were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to federal prison terms. Robby Wayne Meiser, 46, was sentenced to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release, and Bruce W. Mark, 62...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Three additional men have been arrested in connection with a drug and money laundering conspiracy investigation involving the smuggling of cocaine to Alaska through Las Vegas McCarron International Airport. The new defendants are: Clarence Anthony Hatton, A/K/A “C-MONEY”, age 46, of Henderson, NV; Michael Vontrell Langdon, A/K/A...

TAMPA, Fla. - U.S. District Judge James Moody today sentenced Aaron Edwin (39, Riverview) to 10 years and one month in federal prison for conspiring to distribute and possessing with intent to distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana. As part of his sentence, the Court also entered a money...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On February 23, 2015, a Wasilla man was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Sharon L. Gleason to serve 84 months in federal prison for his role in a heroin trafficking conspiracy. James Gwaltney, 38, of Wasilla, Alaska, previously pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute more than...

TAMPA, Fla. - A.D. Wright, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces the arrest and charge by a federal complaint of Shawn Paul (41, Dade City); Vladimir (26) and Jose Edgar...

OCALA, Fla. - Senior U.S. District Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges today sentenced Rolando (46, San Benito, Texas) to 18 years and 6 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. The Court also ordered him to forfeit more than $1.2 million in property and...

SEATTLE - A man who sold guns and heroin from the basement apartment of a home in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to six years in prison and three years of supervised release. Jorge Carlos Camps, 34, was arrested in May 2014, when...

FORT MYERS, Fla. - A.D. Wright, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announce that Adam (35, Naples) pleaded guilty to an Information charging him with seven counts of conspiracy to commit...