NEW YORK - Later today, Albert Veliu and Anthony Noterile will be arraigned at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York on charges relating to the operation of extortion, money laundering, and narcotics trafficking schemes that ultimately resulted in Veliu’s sale to law enforcement of over a dozen AK-47s and...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division and Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Terrance Williams, aka “TA,” was sentenced this afternoon in Manhattan federal court to...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla - Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter today charged Dr. Regan Nichols with five counts of second degree murder in relation to the death of at least five patients during her time working at a Midwest City clinic. According to the probable cause affidavit, Nichols, an osteopathic physician...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police (NYPD) announced the unsealing...

ALBANY, N.Y. - Dujuan Pleasant, age 35, of Schenectady, New York, pled guilty today to distributing crack cocaine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, New York...

LUBBOCK, Texas - A Lubbock, Texas, man, Brian Landon Brown, 32, appeared today before U.S. Magistrate Judge D. Gordon Bryant Jr. and pleaded guilty to a federal offense stemming from his role in a fentanyl distribution conspiracy. The plea was announced jointly by Clyde E. Shelley, Jr., Special Agent in...

NEW YORK - Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, announced today the indictment of Alec Brook-Krasny, a former New York State Assemblyman, on four counts of Commercial Bribing in the First Degree. The charges are based on the continuing investigation into two medical clinics in Brooklyn allegedly...

DALLAS - A licensed pharmacist, Kumi Frimpong, who owned and operated the Cornerstone Pharmacy, located on Bolton Boone Drive in Desoto, Texas, was sentenced this morning for his involvement in a “pill mill” operation, announced Clyde E. Shelley, Jr., the Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas Drug Enforcement Administration...

LUBBOCK, Texas - Sidney Caleb Lanier, 36, and Jamie Marie Robertson, 32, both of Lubbock, Texas, were sentenced this morning before Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, announced Clyde E. Shelley, Jr., the Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas...

DALLAS - Juan Salazar-Sanchez, aka “Mario Ayala Guzman” and “Manuel Barreto-Sanchez,” 50, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 225 months in federal prison for his role in a heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine distribution conspiracy, announced Clyde E. Shelley, Jr., the Special Agent in Charge of...