ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Anchorage man was sentenced earlier this week to 10 years in prison for the distribution of controlled substances. According to court documents, beginning around May 2025 and continuing into September 2025, Shane Norman Caliph Derryberry, 59, sold approximately 100 grams of fentanyl powder to multiple individuals...

MIAMI – An alleged member of a Guatemala-based drug trafficking organization has been extradited from Guatemala to the Southern District of Florida to face federal charges for his role in an international cocaine trafficking conspiracy spanning four countries. According to court records, from 2012 through 2023, Mauro Ismael Morales Martinez...

EUGENE, Ore.— A Mexican national unlawfully residing in the United States has been charged with laundering purported drug proceeds and being an alien in possession of a firearm. According to court documents, Esteban Peralta Fragozo, 50, of Springfield, Oregon, owned and operated El Kaiman Western Wear, a Springfield business that...

SEATTLE – A 46-year-old Seattle man was sentenced late yesterday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to two years in prison for his role in a drug trafficking organization that sold cocaine and fentanyl in Seattle homeless encampments and in the Chinatown International District. Sang Su has been in custody...

SEATTLE – On October 24, 2026, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and more than 4,200 law enforcement partners collected 645,636 pounds of unused medications as part of ongoing efforts to prevent drug misuse. This event marked DEA’s 31st National Prescription Drug Take Back Day with 4,212 collection sites nationwide, including...

PORTLAND, Ore.— U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon Scott Bradford announced Thursday that John Kyle Donnahoo, 32, of McMinnville, has pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with Intent to Distribute a Schedule II Controlled Substance. The charge stems from a February 2023 incident in Yamhill County in...

SEATTLE – A 40-year-old Renton, Washington man was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 50 months in prison for drug trafficking. Davon Malbrough was identified as a member of the “Family Mafia Crips” – a criminal gang profiting off the distribution of controlled substances and sex trafficking...

PORTLAND, Ore.— On Monday, at a press conference at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon, federal, state, and local law enforcement partners announced completion of a coordinated, five‑week federal law enforcement operation targeting firearms and narcotics trafficking in the Portland metro area. During that enforcement operation 97...

MIAMI – The leader of Frente 33, part of the FARC dissident group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP), a designated foreign terrorist organization, was extradited from Colombia to the Southern District of Florida on Thursday to face federal charges stemming from an alleged international cocaine trafficking...

PORTLAND, Ore.— U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon Scott Bradford announced that Eder Fletes Calix, 24, of Beaverton, Oregon, was sentenced to two years and nine months in federal prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for possessing more than 700 grams of fentanyl with intent...