DALLAS - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) has identified a disturbing trend impacting our nation. Prescription drug abuse has resulted in a significant increase in the abuse of heroin. Those addicted to prescription pain medicine often switch to heroin which produces the same effects and is often more readily available and...

BUFFALO, N.Y - - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that James Hamilton, Jr., 29, of Buffalo, N.Y., was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Rools Deslouches, a Brentwood, New York, nurse practitioner, pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York to illegally distributing the highly addictive painkiller oxycodone to customers, whom the defendant knew were drug dealers and addicts, without performing any meaningful...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division and Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York announced the indictment of 10 individuals in connection with a large synthetic marijuana distribution organization in Central New...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Derrick Diaz, the former leader of a crew of robbers who targeted innocent civilians in their homes, was sentenced to 20 years in prison following his February 10, 2012, guilty plea to Hobbs Act robbery conspiracy. The sentence also...

FORT WORTH, Texas - A total of 31 individuals are now in custody following an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task (OCDETF) operation yesterday, led by special agents of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and officers from the Stephenville Police Department, on conspiracy and drug trafficking charges outlined in a criminal complaint...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, Wendell Alomar-Cabrera, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, pled guilty at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, to the October 16, 2006, murder of Luis Sifuentes in Durham, North Carolina. The proceeding took place before United States District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis. When sentenced...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Angel Gregorio Liriano Cruz will be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Roanne L. Mann, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, on heroin and cocaine trafficking charges. Liriano Cruz is alleged to be the leader of an international drug organization responsible for shipping...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge for the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of (FBI)...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - On Friday, October 25, 2013, James Rosemond, also known as “Jimmy Henchman,” was sentenced to mandatory life imprisonment in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, for leading a continuing criminal (the “Rosemond Organization”) that distributed thousands of pounds of cocaine, the majority of which was sold on...