(Bangor, Maine - Kliton Xhemali, 32, of Bangor pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in Bangor, Maine on Tuesday to distribution of cocaine. Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced the plea...

(HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Melkuan Scott, also known as “Young God,” “Mel,” “Young” and “YG,” 25, of Hartford and Andover, was sentenced...

GREENVILLE, N.C. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court yesterday Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard, sentenced Claude King, - 42, of Wilson, North Carolina, to 171 months’ imprisonment followed by five years’ supervised release. On September...

RALEIGH, N.C. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, sentenced Dupree Turner, 29, of Wilson, North Carolina, to a total of 130 months in prison and five years of supervised released...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Khoa Tan Huynh, owner of the Script Life Pharmacy in Clovis, has agreed to pay the United States $200,000 to settle civil claims for statutory violations occurring at the pharmacy, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin...

MIAMI - A federal jury found Valentine Okonkwo, 54, of Orlando, Florida, guilty of one count of conspiracy to distribute and dispense oxycodone outside the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose and 10 counts of dispensing and distributing oxycodone outside the usual course of professional...

GREENBELT, Md. - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Damien Lanier Owens, 33, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison followed by eight years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, and for being a felon in possession of a gun. The...

NORFOLK, Va. - LaCharles Hodges, a/k/a “Boogie,” 28, and Charles Battle, a/k/a “C.J.,” 37, of Portsmouth, Virginia, pleaded guilty this week for their involvement in a Portsmouth-based crack cocaine trafficking operation. Norman Stephenson, 35, pleaded guilty February 3, 2016. All were members of the “Corna Sto Boys,” a group formed...

PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in Charge Gary Tuggle of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Philadelphia Field Division announced today that a federal jury returned guilty verdicts against members of a violent drug trafficking organization that operated in and around Chester, Pennsylvania. The jury found Donald Womack, Sr., Paris Church, Ronell Whitehead...

(CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Panos Eliopoulos, age 37, of Richmond, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Andrea K. Johnstone to causing misbranded drugs to...