TRENTON, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a doctor who admitted writing illegal prescriptions for oxycodone was sentenced today to 57 months...

EUGENE, Ore. - Juan Jesus Chavez-Salazar, 26, of Lane County, Oregon, was sentenced on July 23, 2013, to 168 months in prison for conspiracy to possess and distribute methamphetamine. Upon his release from prison, he will be placed on supervised release for five years. Chavez-Salazar and his associates were the...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On July 25, 2013, a grand jury returned two additional drug conspiracy indictments stemming from the same investigation that resulted in charges against numerous members of an Anchorage based rap group back in August of 2012. That indictment alleged a conspiracy to distribute over 50 kilograms of...

TRENTON, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a physician who wrote illegal prescriptions for oxycodone was sentenced today to 108 months...

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a former U.S. Postal Service employee was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for...

TRENTON, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced that Randy Binder, a pharmacist and the former proprietor of Texas Road Pharmacy in Manalapan...

JULY 09 - ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On July 1, 2013, after deliberating for four hours, a jury of four men and eight women found California gang member Richard Melvin Corum, 30, guilty of drug conspiracy and witness tampering. According the evidence presented at trial, from April 2010 through January 2011...

SEATTLE - Today,a Whatcom County man who ran a drug distribution network was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. Todd Hamilton, 36, of Bellingham ran the area’s most widespread and prolific drug trafficking organization using violence and threats of violence to impose his will. At sentencing U.S. District Judge...

JUNE 28 - ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Jennifer McGrath, 26, of Sacramento, California, was sentenced June 26, 2013, in U.S District Court 38 months in prison for her role in a drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy. Between January 2009, and continuing through July 2010, McGrath was involved in a large...

BOISE, Idaho - The final member of a ten-defendant southwest Idaho methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy was sentenced today in federal court in Boise. Samuel Chavez, 33, was sentenced to 66 months in federal prison for the crime of possession with intent to distribute in excess of 50 grams of methamphetamine. The...