SACRAMENTO, Calif. - -Patricia Jane Albright, 64, of Nevada City, was sentenced by United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley to five years and five months in prison for conspiring to manufacture marijuana, manufacturing marijuana, and structuring currency transactions to evade federal reporting requirements. On July 21, 2015, Albright pleaded...

OAKLAND, Calif. - -A federal grand jury indicted thirteen defendants for conducting a state-wide conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and the distribution of controlled substances, announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin, and Department of Treasury...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - - Damacio Diaz, 43, of McFarland, a detective with the Bakersfield Police (BPD) was arrested today, charged with abusing his position of trust as a police detective when he conspired with and assisted a narcotics dealer in the operation of the dealer’s drug organization, announced United States...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Miguel Sotelo, 41, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to 11 years in prison and a $25,000 fine for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. According to court documents, in April 2014, Sacramento County Sheriff’s detectives spotted a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Three San Francisco International Airport security screeners have been arrested on charges of defrauding the government and smuggling cocaine, announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge David J...

PHOENIX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman announced today the execution of over 15 arrest warrants stemming from a federal grand jury indictment of a predominantly female methamphetamine trafficking organization operating in the Colorado River Indian Reservation. Two other subjects were in custody at the time...

PHOENIX - DEA today announced results from the 2015 National Drug Threat (NDTA), which finds that drug overdose deaths are the leading cause of injury death in the United States, ahead of motor vehicle deaths and firearms. In 2013, over 46,000 people in the United States died from drug overdose...

PHOENIX - DEA announced today, the results of an investigation of an Allentown, PA, based chemical company, who pleaded guilty to six charges including failing to report the disappearance of shipments of (MMA), a precursor for the manufacture of methamphetamine. Taminco US, Inc. (“Taminco”) has also reached a settlement with...

FRESNO, Calif. - Lawrence Alexander Tidwell, 32, of Coarsegold, was sentenced Monday by United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to eight years in prison for cultivating marijuana and being a felon in possession of firearms. According to court documents, a search warrant was served in May 2013 at a...

FRESNO, Calif. - Today, United States District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill sentenced three defendants in two cases for trafficking methamphetamine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin announced. In the first case, Jose Mojarro Cruz, aka Shyboy, 28, of Bakersfield...