ALBANY, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Acting United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith announced that Nicholas “Netti” Khan, 24, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced today to 92 months in prison for distributing crack cocaine. Senior United States District...

HOUSTON - A native of Louisiana has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and possessing a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and Acting...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Jorge Costilla-Sanchez has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana as well as two counts of assault on a federal officer, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Costilla-Sanchez, 46...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On June 19, 2017, Allen Carney, 30, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, was sentenced to serve 240 months in prison by the Honorable Harry S. Mattice, Jr., U.S. District Judge. Following a March 2017 jury trial, Carney was convicted of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, possession of...

ATLANTA - Vladimir Collazo-Florido, aka“Cannabis,” Marlon Matthew Pittman, aka “Marlo Pittman,” and Carlos Gonzalez-Catala, aka “El Electrico,” each with prior federal convictions for drug trafficking, have been indicted for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine based on a scheme in which they used the U.S. Mail to...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A former lead technician at a central Alabama pharmacy was charged today with tampering with vials of opioid painkillers used in the compounding of intravenous fluid bags intended for hospice and homecare patients, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Bret Hamilton, U.S. Attorney Jay...

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a soldier of the Sex Money Murder set of the Bloods street gang was sentenced today to 264...

SAN ANTONIO - In San Antonio today, 40-year-old Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle (OMO) San Antonio Centro Chapter Sergeant at Arms Jesse James Benavidez pleaded guilty to a federal charge in connection with the murder of Hells Angel Anthony Benesh in 2006 announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy...

DEL RIO, Texas - In Del Rio today, United States District Judge Alia Moses sentenced 33-year-old Adrian Pineda-Orozco, an undocumented alien residing in Houston, to 50 years in federal prison for his role in scheme to smuggle over 43 kilograms of liquid methamphetamine into the United States announced Drug Enforcement...

SAN FRANCISCO - King Edward Harris II was sentenced today to five years in prison for distributing fentanyl pills, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin. Harris, 35, of Oxnard, pleaded guilty on April 7, 2017, to six counts...