News from February 2023
By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023
Alma Sanchez, 50, of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bob P. Beris announced.
By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023
Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division and Rockland County District Attorney Tom Walsh announced the arrests of 2 residents from Congers, NY for possession of a controlled substance and 2 handguns
By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023
Jacob James Martinez, 33, of Idaho Falls, was sentenced to federal prison for attempted possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced today. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye sentenced Martinez to 188 months in federal prison.
By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023
A Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for leading a conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023
United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that a federal jury has found Curtis Tyrone Johnson (35, Melbourne) guilty of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon and possession with the intent to distribute various controlled substances.
By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023
Alphonso Jimenez, 31, of Stockton, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl and using a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bob P. Beris announced.
By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023
Approximately 1,300 Kilograms of Cocaine Seized in Connection with the Investigation
By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023
Co-Conspirator Brother Previously Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Participation in Same Scheme
By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023
U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Daryl Green, 53, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 500 grams or more of cocaine, was sentenced to serve 87 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023
Saginaw man running a fentanyl pill-pressing operation was sentenced Friday to 30 years in federal prison, announced Special Agent in Charge of DEA Dallas Eduardo A. Chávez.
By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023
United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that 16 individuals, charged in three (3) indictments, have all pleaded guilty to their respective roles in conspiring to distribute controlled substances, including fentanyl and cocaine, in the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) “Operation Titan Fall” investigation
By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023
U.S. District Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk on Friday sentenced a man involved in a triple shooting in 2021 that killed two people to 26 years in prison.
By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023
Alejandro Valentino Urias was sentenced today to 96 months in prison after admitting he supplied a fentanyl-laced counterfeit M30 pill that caused the overdose death of a 14-year-old girl, announced U.S. Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge Bob P. Beris.
By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023
A San Diego man was sentenced in federal court today for shipping large quantities of methamphetamine to southwest Missouri.
By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023
Jaimee Ashley Koryn was sentenced in federal court today to 130 months in prison for selling the fentanyl pills that resulted in the fatal overdose of 23-year-old Sherie Gil on September 30, 2021.
By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Frank A. Tarentino III, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), Keechant L. Sewell, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), and Steven A. Nigrelli, the Acting Superintendent of the New York State Police (“NYSP”), announced that Agari Reyes-Sillero was arrested while attempting to sell approximately 50,000 multicolored fentanyl pills in exchange for $400,000. Reyes-Sillero was arrested on Monday and was presented today before Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang.
By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023
Michael Gannon, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of Drug Enforcement Administration-Indianapolis, and U.S. Attorney Zachary A. Myers for the Southern District of Indiana announced that a federal jury has found Rick Coley, 36, of Indianapolis, and David Duggar, 40, of Greenwood, Indiana, guilty on all counts following an eight-day trial.
By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023
Four Oklahoma men were indicted by a federal grand jury today after law enforcement officers seized more than $1 million worth of cocaine from a rental truck that was stopped on Interstate 70 in Lafayette County, Mo.
By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023
Justin Petty, 41, of Los Angeles, an associate of the Aryan Brotherhood (AB) prison gang, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise and conspiracy to distribute heroin and methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023
Three more defendants have been indicted in a 10-person conspiracy to distribute fentanyl in northwest Missouri.
