TAFT, Okla. - Today, at the Oklahoma Board of Corrections meeting, agents with the U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement (DEA) presented letters of recognition to officers with the Oklahoma Department of (DOC) and agents with the Inspector General’s office for assisting in dismantling the McClendon drug trafficking organization. Presenting...

STATESVILLE, NC - U.S. District Judge Richard L. Voorhees sentenced yesterday Eduardo Trejo-Munoz, a/k/a “Lalo,” 24, of Hickory, N.C. to 262 months in prison and five years of supervised release for trafficking high purity crystal methamphetamine worth over $5 million, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District...

SEP 12 - PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New England Division and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Richard W. Szpyt, a/k/a “Zip,” 57, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George...

BOISE, Idaho - Michael Minas, 50, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced on September 8, 2016, to eight years in federal prison on 80 counts of unlawfully distributing controlled substances outside the usual course of professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge...

SEP 09 - BRIDGEPORT, 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 Jevaughn Watson, 23, of Bridgeport, was arrested yesterday on a criminal complaint charging him with...

ALBANY, N.Y. - - Shawn Taft, 45, of Amsterdam, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 105 months in prison for possessing five firearms as a felon and distributing heroin. The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, New York Division...

NEWARK, N.J. - -Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New Jersey Division, and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Miami man admitted that he was responsible for depositing over $4.7 million in fraudulently obtained tax refund checks...

SAN ANTONIO - FBI agents arrested 24 year-old former Temple police officer Erick French for allegedly revealing an ongoing investigation announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher B. Combs, San Antonio Division. A two-count federal grand jury indictment returned...

ALBANY, N.Y. - - Kelly Burgess, 26, of West Charlton, New York, was sentenced today to serve three years of probation and to pay a $3,000 fine for possessing and intending to sell hundreds of Oxycodone pills that she stole from the Ballston Spa pharmacy that employed her. The announcement...

NEW YORK - - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an Indictment charging Aldinton Valerio and...