SEATTLE - The American people have again responded in droves to the most recent DEA-led National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. Last Saturday, residents across the country turned in 647,211 (324 tons) of expired and unwanted medications for safe and proper disposal at the 5,683 take-back sites that were available in...

BOISE, Idaho - Rahil Akhtar, 37, of Eagle, Idaho, pleaded guilty on November 4, 2013, in federal court to one count of acquiring and obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud and deception. Akhtar was a dentist licensed to practice in the state of Idaho. According to court documents, from...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Nathan Jackson, 27, and his sister, Hailey Jelinek, 20, from Fairbanks, Alaska, were sentenced on November 1, 2013, in U.S. District Court. Jackson was sentenced to 123 months in prison and three years of supervised release. He had previously pleaded guilty to both counts of an indictment...

SEATTLE - A Puyallup, Washington man who shot and killed two men who had entered the garage where he was growing marijuana pleaded guilty on October 25, 2013, in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to manufacturing marijuana and possession of a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime. Jeremy...

SCRANTON, Pa. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, held a meeting in Scranton, on October 9, 2013, to announce that a total of $4,093,753.13 was seized and forfeited as a result of a joint investigation by local and state law enforcement authorities and the...

WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Kevin Morris, age 24 of Franklin Township, (Chester County), was sentenced to 57 months imprisonment for his role in a drug conspiracy centered in Wilmington that involved the importation of cocaine and...

SEATTLE - The largest volume used car dealership in Washington, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle for failure to file a monetary transaction report. Zein Automobiles, Inc., d/b/a Independence Auto Sales and Best Bet Auto Sales with locations in Lynnwood and Everett, forfeited $1.5...

PHILADELPHIA - Dr. Norman Werther, 73, of Ft. Washington, PA, was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death and more than 300 counts stemming from his pill mill operation. A federal jury convicted Werther on June 11, 2013 of 184 counts...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 54-year-old West Lawn, Pennsylvania resident was sentenced to one year in prison today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik for his role in an Oxycontin trafficking conspiracy that operated in...

BOISE, Idaho - Five Mexican nationals were arrested last week by the Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service in connection with a large marijuana growing operation on public lands. According to the criminal complaints filed, Juan Pablo Villasenor-Villa, 28, Marcos Solano-Farias, 30, Carlos Cerda-Carpio, 40...