NASSAU, BAHAMAS - On January 16th, Operation Bahamas Turks and (OPBAT) assets were deployed after a Customs and Border (CBP) Office of Air and (OAM) aircraft detected a go-fast vessel eighty nautical miles south of the Grand Bahama Island. The 45 foot vessel was travelling at high speed with no...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A federal jury has convicted Jaime Homero Guerrero of conspiracy to possess and possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge Stephen S. Whipple and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The jury returned its verdicts...

JAN 24 (LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Thirty-nine individuals residing in Eddy, Chaves and Lincoln Counties, N.M., and one from west Texas are facing drug trafficking and firearms charges as the result of a multi-agency investigation targeting drug traffickers in southeastern New Mexico. The investigation culminated this morning when 27 of...

SAVANNAH, Ga. - - Dr. Najam Azmat - , 57, of Waycross, Georgia, was found guilty by a federal jury last week of all charges relating to his role the running of East Health Center, a pill-mill clinic that operated in Garden City in 2011. United States District Court Judge...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Nelson Rios, also known as “Pito,” 37, of New Haven, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S...

ATLANTA - Dwayne Penn, formerly a police officer with the Clayton County Police Department assigned to the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute over five kilograms of cocaine. Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Atlanta Field Division stated...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge James Shroba and United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, Tammy Dickinson, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for her role in a conspiracy that was responsible for distributing hundreds of...

FRESNO, Calif. - Victor Torres, 28, of Selma, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill to five years and 10 months in prison for methamphetamine trafficking, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. According to court...

JAN 21 (MONTGOMERY, Ala.) - The Drug Enforcement Administration awarded Assistant U. S. Attorneys Verne Speirs and Gray Borden the Spartan Award, announced George L. Beck, Jr., United States Attorney Middle District of Alabama. The Spartan award recognizes prosecutors for their dedication and extraordinary effort to investigate and prosecute large-scale...

JAN 21 - HONOLULU - Chief U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway sentenced defendant Ashon L. Fain-Farias, age 25, on January 13, 2014, to an imprisonment term of six years following a plea (i) one count of possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine; (ii) one...