Federal Drug Defense
Charged In A Federal Drug Case?
Mandatory minimums make early strategy decisive. Talk to us before you talk to anyone.
Federal Drug Defense
Drug Conspiracy & Trafficking Attorneys
Federal drug cases are conspiracy cases. Under 21 U.S.C. § 846, you can face decades based on the words of co-conspirators — even if you never touched the drugs. Mandatory minimums make these among the highest-stakes cases in federal court.
In conspiracy cases, co-defendants race to cooperate first. Every day you wait, someone else may be negotiating a deal built on testimony about you.
Why Federal Drug Cases Are Different
Conspiracy Law & Mandatory Minimums
Federal prosecutors rarely charge simple possession. They charge conspiracy — which lets the government hold you responsible for the entire organization’s drug quantity. And quantity drives mandatory minimums of five or ten years under 21 U.S.C. § 841.
These cases are built on wiretaps, controlled buys, cooperators, and surveillance. Each of those has rules — and when agents break them, suppression can gut the government’s case. Quantity, role, and safety-valve relief are where federal drug cases are won.
Charges We Defend
Federal Drug Charges We
Defend
From I-95 and I-75 corridor stops to OCDETF wiretap takedowns, we defend every kind of federal drug prosecution in Florida and Michigan.
Drug Conspiracy (§ 846)
The government's charge of choice — liability through agreement, proven by cooperators.
Trafficking & Distribution (§ 841)
Quantity-driven charges carrying five- and ten-year mandatory minimums.
Importation Offenses
Cases involving ports, borders, and international parcels — common in South Florida.
Wiretap ("Title III") Cases
Prosecutions built on intercepted calls, where suppression challenges can be decisive.
Fentanyl & Opioid Cases
Enhanced penalties and overdose-liability counts that can carry up to life.
§ 924(c) Firearm Enhancements
A gun "in furtherance" of trafficking adds a mandatory consecutive five years or more.
Our Approach
Building Your Drug Case Defense
We attack the government’s case at its structural weak points: the legality of the stop or wiretap, the credibility of cooperators, and the drug quantity attributed to you — while positioning you for safety-valve and minor-role relief wherever the facts allow.
Get a Confidential Case ReviewSuppression First
Illegal stops, searches, and wiretaps can take the government's core evidence off the table.
Quantity & Role Fights
Attribution, not arrest, drives the sentence. We litigate both relentlessly.
Mandatory-Minimum Relief
Safety valve, substantial assistance, and plea structure can unlock sentences below the minimums.
Drug Case Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Conspiracy requires only an agreement and participation — often proven by cooperator testimony alone. That is also its weakness: cooperators trade testimony for sentence reductions, and juries can be shown exactly that.
A statutory provision that lets qualifying non-violent, low-criminal-history defendants be sentenced below the mandatory minimum. Qualifying for it — and protecting your eligibility — is often the most valuable work in the case.
Enormously. Pretextual stops, prolonged detentions, and defective warrants are among the most successful suppression grounds in federal drug cases. If the stop falls, the case often falls with it.
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