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...

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...

DETROIT - Sardar Ashrafkhan of Ypsilanti, Michigan, was sentenced yesterday to 23 years in prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute controlled substance prescription drugs, conspiracy to commit health care fraud, and money laundering, Acting U.S. Attorney Daniel Lemisch announced. Ashrafkhan, also known as “Dr. Khan,” 59, was sentenced...

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...

DAYTON, Ohio - Antonio J. Spiva, 25, and Charles M. McBeath, 33, both of Dayton, were sentenced in U.S. District Court this week for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl that resulted in the death of at least two individuals. Each defendant pled guilty in January...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Adrian A. Douglas, 48, of Columbus, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspire to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Douglas led a Central Ohio marijuana trafficking ring that involved receiving UPS shipments of the drug from Las...

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...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (“DEA”), Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Thomas Zugibe, the Rockland County District Attorney, today announced the unsealing of an...