SACRAMENTO, CA -- - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced that a grand jury in Sacramento returned two separate indictments today, charging a total of 12 defendants in connection with two large commercial marijuana grow operations. The first...

SACRAMENTO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced that Jian Hong Liang, 29, of San Francisco, was found guilty today for his involvement in an indoor marijuana growing operation in Sacramento and Elk Grove. The guilty verdict...

PORTLAND, ME. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced today that Tony Sumrall, 29, of Boston, Massachusetts, was sentenced this afternoon in U.S. District Court to 15 years and 8 months in...

FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Ediberto Ceballos of Madera pleaded guilty today to conspiring to cultivate marijuana. According to his plea agreement, Ceballos admitted that his offense involved 3,710 marijuana plants and that he had traveled to a marijuana cultivation site to tend to...

SACRAMENTO, CA -- - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that United States District Judge Edward J. Garcia sentenced Hector Ojeda Barraza, 30, of Stockton, today to 18 years in prison to be followed by five years of...

FRESNO, CA - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging Emmanuel Martinez Ruvalcaba, 19, of Alhambra, and Rafael Alfonso Torres, 22, of Mexico, with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and...

NORWALK, CT. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Anthony Holley, a.k.a “BG,” 31, of Monterey Place, Norwalk, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge...

CONCORD, NH. - James A. Canfield, who formerly practiced medicine as a pediatrician in Amherst, New Hampshire, pled guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to making materially false statements to the Drug Enforcement (DEA), announced Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the...

SACRAMENTO, CA - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Dana Scott McIntire, 53, of Stockton, pleaded guilty today to methamphetamine trafficking and possessing pseudoephedrine knowing it would be used to manufacture methamphetamine. This case is the product...

FRESNO, CA - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that federal, state, and local agents arrested eight Norteño gang members or associates yesterday on drug trafficking charges and served nine federal search warrants. The arrests were part of...