MIAMI - Red Ribbon Week is the nation’s oldest and largest drug prevention program reaching millions of Americans during the last week of October every year. During Red Ribbon, young people in communities across the nation pledge to live drug free lifestyles by wearing red ribbons and participating in community-wide...

SEATTLE - The U.S. leader of an international drug smuggling ring was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 15 years in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Jacob Saul Stuart, 39, of Kirkland, Washington...

NEW ORLEANS - Walter Porter, 37, a/k/a “Urkel” a/k/a “Moonie”; Nakia Hankton, 34; Shirley Hankton, 58; Telly Hankton, 36,a/k/a “Third” a/k/a “Wild”; Thomas Hankton, 36, a/k/a “Squirt”; Troy Hankton, 28; George Jackson, 38a/k/a “Black”; Derrick Smothers, 34, a/k/a “Dump”; Andre Hankton, 35;Kevin Jackson, 39; Netthany Schexnayder, 33; Sana Johnson,37; and...

TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Robert E. O’Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, and Sue McCormick, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations Tampa, announced today that U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich sentenced...

FRESNO, Calif. - Raymond Arthur Gentile, 51, the owner of a marijuana storefront in Bakersfield named ANP Collective, and his employee, Gustavo Angel Salinas, 24, both of Bakersfield, were indicted today for conspiring to violate federal narcotics laws, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Nine individuals, who allegedly participated in a Deming, N.M., based conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine, have been charged with narcotics trafficking offenses in a federal indictment that was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico in Las Cruces. The indictment...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England Kevin L. Lane; United States Attorney for Rhode Island Peter F. Neronha; and Pawtucket Police Chief Paul King announced that Audi Pineda, 38, of Pawtucket, was convicted by a federal court jury on Wednesday...

BALTIMORE - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Gregory Fitzgerald, 46, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 126 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. The sentence was announced...

NEW ORLEANS - Jermaine Holden, 32, a resident of Terrebonne Parish, was sentenced today by U. S. District Court Judge Stanwood R. Duval, Jr. to serve over 16 (200 months) imprisonment after pleading guilty to cocaine charges. In addition to the term of imprisonment, Judge Duval imposed 10 years of...

TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O'Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces that a federal jury found Sergio Godinez Del (46, Napa, California) guilty yesterday of conspiracy to distribute, and possession with...