BATON ROUGE, La. – The leader of a large drug trafficking organization, James C. Hull, 41, of Baton Rouge, was sentenced as part of Operation Hidden Fee, an extensive federal, state and local investigation by the Middle District Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force aimed at a drug trafficking...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – On Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019, Cyrus Phyfier, 51, of Montgomery, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for multiple drug and firearm related charges, announced DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris, United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., ATF Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson...

CINCINNATI – A federal grand jury has charged 36 individuals with crimes related to narcotics and money laundering conspiracies in an indictment that was unsealed today. Those charged include 22 local individuals. Law enforcement agents arrested all 36 defendants late last week and over the weekend. According to the indictment...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A federal judge today sentenced a Springville couple involved in a St. Clair County pill mill scheme, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge of the New Orleans Division Brad L. Byerley, U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, and IRS-Criminal Investigations Atlanta Field Office Special Agent in...

NEW ORLEANS – Americans nationwide have once again shown their strong support for DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day by dropping off nearly 883,000 pounds of medications during the October 2019 Take Back event. DEA, along with its law enforcement partners, has now collected nearly 12.7 million pounds of...

NEW ORLEANS – The Drug Enforcement Administration is alerting the public of dangerous counterfeit pills killing Americans. Mexican drug cartels are manufacturing mass quantities of counterfeit prescription pills containing fentanyl, a dangerous synthetic opioid that is lethal in minute doses, for distribution throughout North America. Based on a sampling of...

NEW ORLEANS – With robust public participation over the course of 17 prior events, the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Initiative continues to remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to misuse, theft or abuse by family members and visitors...

GULFPORT, Miss. – The Drug Enforcement Administration announced David Quevedo Martinez, 40, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced yesterday by a senior U.S. district judge to life in federal prison for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. Martinez was also ordered to pay a...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – A joint federal, state, and local law enforcement initiative has resulted in the arrests of 36 individuals on a variety of criminal charges, including drug trafficking, money laundering, using communication facilities to facilitate drug trafficking and various firearms offenses, announced the Drug Enforcement Administration. The majority of...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A delegation of law enforcement members from the state of Alabama, to include representatives from the Drug Enforcement Administration, recently returned from a covert trip to Mexico and to the state of Sinaloa, home of the Sinaloa Cartel, announced DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris...