ST. LOUIS – United States District Court Judge Rodney W. Sippel sentenced today Angela K. Williams, M.D., to three years’ probation, $745 in restitution to Medicare and Medicaid and 100 hours community service today. The 34-year-old Brentwood, Missouri, resident pleaded guilty in January to fraudulently obtaining oxycodone. According to the...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – The former city clerk in Everton, Missouri, has been sentenced in federal court for her role in a money-laundering conspiracy related to methamphetamine trafficking. Kristy A. Conn, 46, of Everton, was sentenced on Wednesday, Sept. 23, to 10 years in federal prison without parole. Conn pleaded guilty...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Tameshwar Ammar, a former medical doctor in Roslyn, New York, pleaded guilty via teleconference to conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone. Ammar was indicted in November 2019. On June 22, 2020, he relinquished his license to practice medicine. Today’s plea...

NEW YORK - Today, Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Leigh-Alistair Barzey, Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast Field Office of the U.S...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division, Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, and Western District of New York, U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., announced today that Phousavath Luangrath, 30, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of misprision of a felony, was sentenced to serve one year...

INDIANAPOLIS – Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Robert J. Bell of the Chicago Field Division and United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that Michael L. Jones, 38, Kokomo, IN was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison and five years of supervised release by U.S. District...

MADISON, Wis. – The Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Robert J. Bell of the Chicago Field Division, and the United States Attorney Scott C. Blader announced that Clifford T. Bowe, M.D., a retired Cadott, Wisconsin physician, entered into a settlement agreement to pay $70,000 to resolve civil allegations...

TAMPA, Fla. - A 37-count indictment was unsealed today charging five individuals with money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering. If convicted, each defendant faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison per count. The indictment also notifies the defendants that the United States is seeking a...

DALLAS - A Dallas doctor has pleaded guilty to a felony for prescription drug diversion crimes perpetrated on elderly victims, announced Eduardo A. Chavez, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Dallas Field Division and U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox. Dr. Edward Agura, 63, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge...

FRESNO, Calif. — Majed Bashir Akroush, aka Magic Mike, 52, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today to two years and nine months in prison for conspiring to structure over $700,000 in cash withdrawals from four different bank accounts associated with his internet businesses that sold synthetic marijuana, U.S. Attorney McGregor W...