AMARILLO, Texas - Two men from California, Erasmo Ramirez-Romero and Jorge Ramirez, appeared yesterday afternoon before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater, and pleaded guilty to their roles in a fentanyl distribution conspiracy, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Attorney...

AMARILLO - U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater sentenced Jose Santillan, 25, of Amarillo, Texas, earlier this week to 212 months’ in federal prison. Santillan was convicted in December 2017, following a three-day trial, on one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or...

NEW YORK - Yesterday, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Yefferson Rodriguez-Lopez, a member of a violent robbery crew that operated in the New York metropolitan area from 1998 to 2003, was sentenced by United States District Judge Raymond J. Dearie to 18 years’ imprisonment and five years’ supervised release...

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. - A sizable amount of marijuana and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash were seized in Pleasantville Thursday following an investigation by members of a multi-agency Westchester County narcotics task force. A search warrant was served at 204 Washington Avenue by officers from the U.S. Drug...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced today that Stevie Alejandro, 31, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of...

NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) New York Division, Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark, Angel...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced the sentencing of two men who were convicted of conspiracy to manufacture, possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, a...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced that Adalberto Cruz, 28, of Puerto Rico, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute and distribution of heroin, was...

DALLAS, Texas - Eskandar Molavi, 69, of Frisco, Texas, is in federal custody following his arrest Friday, March 16, 2018 on federal charges stemming from a murder-for-hire plot to have his former business partner kidnapped and possibly killed. The announcement was made this afternoon by Special Agent in Charge Clyde...