LAREDO, Texas - Edgar Loera and Miguel Angel Vives-Macias have been convicted by a federal jury of multiple counts in a drug trafficking conspiracy involving heroin and methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge Steven Whipple and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The jury returned its verdicts...

WASHINGTON - Five men have been sentenced to federal prison this week for prescription drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today Khuda Balouch Buksh, 47, a Pakistani national living in Duncanville, Texas, pleaded guilty on Jan. 16, 2013 to conspiracy to possess...

OTSEGO, N.Y. - Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) James J. Hunt and Otsego County Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr. announced yesterday, the arrest of Richard William Compitello, age 47, of 170 Reservoir Road, Worcester, NY following a joint narcotics investigation...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - On Friday, February 14, 2014, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Gjavit Thaqi, one of the leaders of an international drug trafficking syndicate run by ethnic Albanians located in the United States, Canada and (the "syndicate"), and Robert Rudaj, a member of the syndicate, were sentenced to...

OTSEGO, N.Y. - Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration James J. Hunt, Otsego County Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr., and Oneonta Police Department Chief Dennis R. Nayor announce the arrest of three individuals involved in the possession and distribution of heroin...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Elizabeth Camue Martinez, 33, of Buffalo, N.Y., and...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Bridget G. Brennan, the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New (“SNP”)...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that Yesid Rios Suarez pled guilty on February 4, 2013 in...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton and Joseph A. D’Amico, Superintendent of the New York State Police, announced the...

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. - On January 30, 2014, United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian, James J. Hunt, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced that Allan Peters was found guilty after a four day jury trial in Syracuse, New...