NEW YORK - Three large-scale, yet unrelated fentanyl packaging operations were dismantled in the Bronx and Manhattan on Wednesday, April 8, 2026. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) New York Task Force Division (NYTFD), working with the New York City Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s Office, seized a combined total of approximately...

New York - This afternoon, in federal court in Brooklyn, Elkin Armando Alomia Quiñones, Luis Alberto Arboleda Escobar, Diego Luis Obregon Aguirre, Edwin Obregon Castro, Juan Matias Obregon Castro, Rodrigo Obregon Saavedra and Narjel Paredes, all citizens of Colombia, will be arraigned before United States Magistrate Judge James R. Cho...

NEW YORK – DEA New York Enforcement Division Special Agent in Charge Farhana Islam, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and New York State Police Superintendent Stephen James announced the arrest and indictment of Azer Arslanouk, 36, of Ocean Township, New Jersey, for illegally selling fentanyl and cocaine in Brooklyn...

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) - South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced today in the drug trafficking investigation known as “Ganjapreneur” that the South Carolina State Grand Jury has issued the first indictments directly resulting from the searches and seizures of Midlands area distributorships and vape shops on December 9, 2025. In...

Six men were arrested during a court-authorized search of a fentanyl and heroin packaging mill located inside an apartment in the Highbridge neighborhood of the Bronx. Approximately three kilograms of fentanyl (over six pounds), carrying an estimated street value of over $500,000, was seized during a court-authorized search. The organization...

New York - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) New York Enforcement Division, Farhana Islam, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, and the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), Jessica S. Tisch, announced today the unsealing of...

NEW YORK – Marking a powerful start to 2026, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration dealt a significant blow to drug trafficking networks during Phase II of our nationwide Operation Fentanyl Free America. Between January 12 and February 10, 2026, DEA seized more than 4.7 million fentanyl pills and nearly 2,396...

Atlanta – Benjamin Alberto Lozoya, a convicted felon, and Arturo Carreno-Rivera, an illegal alien from Mexico, face federal charges after law enforcement seized at least 30 pounds of fentanyl, 10 pounds of methamphetamine, and two loaded firearms in drug trafficking operations in Norcross, Georgia this week. “The defendants conducted their...

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Dezmond Tobias Tucker, 31, of Union, has been sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison for distribution of fentanyl. Evidence obtained in the investigation revealed that in October of 2023, investigators with the Union Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration caught Tucker selling fentanyl...

ROME, Ga. – Thirteen members of a prison-based methamphetamine distribution ring have been convicted and sentenced. Before they were identified by federal agents, state inmates Edward Kelvin Pope, David Wilson, and Kevin Josue Campos Rivera coordinated with Jose Santos Isaola Cisneros, a federal inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in...