HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Matthew Barden and Kenneth Elser, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that three men were sentenced for drug and firearm related offenses in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Jerry Lee Rudkin, 30, was sentenced...

NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that a federal jury convicted Jorge Perralta, age 33, of Pasadena, Texas, and Paul Norris, age 57, of Houston, Texas, of a drug conspiracy charge, following a four-day trial. Perralta and...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Matthew Barden and Kenneth Elser, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Gilberto Ray Ramos of Springdale, Arkansas, was sentenced to 148 months in federal prison followed by three years supervised release on one...

CAMDEN, N.J. - -Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a Pleasantville, New Jersey, man admitted participating in a nearly three-year conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine in...

EL DORADO, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Matthew Barden and Kenneth Elser, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that three men were sentenced today for the distribution of controlled substances stemming from an earlier investigation dubbed Operation Three Amigos in...

TRENTON, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Ernest Parrey, Jr., Trenton Police Director announced the culmination of a two year multi-agency narcotics investigation targeting members of the Sex, Money, and Murder set of the nationwide BLOODS criminal...

NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that a federal jury has convicted former Houston Police Officer Noe Juarez, age 47, of conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine hydrochloride and conspiracy to possess firearms in...

NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that Naser Yousef Gheith, a/k/a “Nick,” age 37, from San Francisco, California, pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or...

NEWARK, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a Colombian cartel leader expelled from Venezuela to face federal charges in New Jersey for his role in...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris and U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama George L. Beck, Jr. announced today Dr. Francisco Huidor-Figureoa, 48, a physician currently residing in Montgomery, Alabama, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, December 29, 2015 in federal court to...