TRENTON, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, 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 an Anaheim, California, man was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for laundering money on behalf of...

LOS ANGELES - Agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration and local law enforcement authorities today took into custody seven defendants linked to a drug-distribution ring that operated out of Van Nuys and used a fleet of cars and a staff of drivers to make rapid deliveries - primarily of heroin...

RENO, Nev. - An Elko, Nevada cardiologist was arrested today on 39-charges of unlawful distribution of prescription opioids and Medicare and Medicaid fraud, announced Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada, Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI’s Las...

ALBANY, N.Y. - Tyleek Deramus, age 19, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 27 months in prison for possessing crack cocaine with the intent to distribute it. The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge James...

NEW YORK - Joon H. Kim, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Charles Gardner, Yonkers Police Department (the “YPD”); and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), announced today the arrest of Ansley R. Estrella, Ronald...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - On Friday, December 8, 2017, Dr. Shepherd A. Odom, 78, of Alexander City, Alabama, pleaded guilty to charges of drug distribution and conspiracy to commit money laundering, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Bret Hamilton and United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. Dr...

SHREVEPORT, La. - A man from California was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in prison for conspiring to transport methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley and Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook. Maquel L. Shelby, 37, of Hawthorne, Calif., was sentenced by...

AMARILLO, Texas - Rogelio Xochitl Amparan, 29, was sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 189 months in federal prison terms for his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Attorney...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Edward Carrillo, also known as “Super Ed,” was sentenced by United States District Judge Brian M. Cogan to 10 ½ years’ imprisonment for conspiring to distribute fentanyl in West Virginia. The fentanyl the defendant distributed was linked to the...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Four individuals were arrested today after being indicted by a federal grand jury for their role in operating a “pill mill,” out of a Montgomery, Alabama medical office, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Bret Hamilton and United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr...