BUFFALO, N.Y. - Today, a federal grand jury has returned a 30 count indictment charging 17 defendants with multiple narcotics offenses for their role in a drug trafficking organization that distributed thousands of kilograms of illegal narcotics, including heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine throughout the United States. Special Agent in Charge...

DALLAS - Muhammad Faridi, 40, the former owner of the McAllen Medical Clinic, appeared this afternoon before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater and pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge stemming from his involvement in a “pill mill” operation, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. and U.S...

TYLER, Texas - DEA Special Agent in Charge, Clyde Shelley and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that five individuals have been arrested following a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas. On Aug. 4, 2016, a combined task force of federal, state and local...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, an indictment was unsealed charging Gonzalo Erick Aguilar Vargas, also known as “Erick Aguilar” and “Erick Vargas,” Hillary Calle, Kiancin Lee, also known as “Mala,” Monica Vargas, and Ricky Vargas with conspiring to traffic heroin, conspiring to kidnap, kidnapping, and possessing and brandishing firearms in...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, Salvador Jimenez Uribe, also known as “Salvador Uribe Jimenez,” pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Raymond J. Dearie in the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, to a four-count superseding indictment for his involvement in an international cocaine importation conspiracy and international narcotics importation...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - John V. Brown, 45, of New York City, was sentenced today to serve 71 months in prison, to be followed by four years of supervised release for supplying heroin in the Plattsburgh area. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Special Agent...

PLANO, Texas - A Dallas physician has been convicted of conspiracy to sell illegal prescriptions in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. Habiboola Niamatali, 75, of Dallas, was found guilty by a jury of conspiracy to distribute Hydrocodone, Alprazolam, and Promethazine with Codeine outside...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - An indictment was unsealed today in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging Nestor Luis Reverol Torres, the former General Director of Venezuela’s La Oficina Nacional (ONA) and former commander of Venezuela’s National Guard, and Edylberto Jose Molina Molina, the former Sub-Director...

SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y. - Nearly four kilograms of heroin and fentanyl have been seized and 24 people arrested on drug possession and conspiracy charges as a result of an investigation into 10 fatal overdoses in Suffolk and Nassau Counties and nine drug overdoses in which individuals were revived with Narcan...

NEW YORK - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), announced the sentencing yesterday of James Smith, a/k/a “Heavy D,” to 34 years in...