TAMPA, Fla. – An indictment charging Robert Lee Ward 40, Fort Myers with conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and tampering with an informant by killing him/her was unsealed today. The indictment also charges Dalton Kelvin McGriff 49, Fort Myers with conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or...

MIAMI – With the robust participation of Americans nationwide, DEA and its law enforcement partners have now surpassed its 10 million pound goal and collected nearly 11 million pounds of unused, unwanted or expired prescription medications over the course of 16 successful DEA National Prescription Drug Take Back events. During...

ORLANDO, Fla. - Jose Ramon Rivera (23, Orlando) was sentenced to 10 years and 11 months in federal prison for distributing heroin and methamphetamine, possessing firearms as a convicted felon, and carrying a firearm during a drug-trafficking crime. Rivera pleaded guilty on July 12, 2018. According to court documents and...

MIAMI - On Sept. 28, 2018, Richard Senese, 39, a former Miami-Dade County resident was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison, to be followed by 5 years of supervised release, for attempted international narcotics trafficking. Senese, formerly of Hialeah, previously pled guilty to attempting to import cocaine into the United...

MIAMI - A former Miami-Dade County resident was sentenced to 97 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $722,000 in restitution for his roles in bank fraud and money laundering schemes. Jose Orlando Sanchez Cristancho, a.k.a. Orlando Sanchez, 57, a...

TAMPA, Fla., - Aureliano Cuero-Cuero aka "Chavo," 38, of Mosquera, Nariño, Colombia was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine on board vessels subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Cuero-Cuero pleaded guilty on May 23, 2018. According to court records, Cuero-Cuero was an...

Washington D.C. – Jose Augustin Salmeron-Larios aka "Joseph Morales-Martinez," "Angel Salvador Gutierrez," "Yankee," and "Kean," age 25, of Severn, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to a conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13; attempted murder in aid of racketeering; and using and carrying a...

TAMPA, Fla. – Eleven members of a drug trafficking organization have pled guilty to charges stemming from conspiracy to distribute more than one kilogram of heroin, 400 hundred grams of fentanyl, and 100 grams of a fentanyl analogue. This distribution resulted in four deaths and in serious bodily injury to...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Wilfredo Roy Madrigal, a/k/a “Fredo,” a/k/a “Wolfman,” 34, of Palm Beach County was sentenced yesterday by a federal judge to 10 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, after previously pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin. According...

TAMPA, Fla. - Jorge Eliecer Cifuentes-Cuero (54, Colombia, South America) was sentenced today to 21 years in federal prison for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine while aboard a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. According to court documents...