COLUMBUS, Ohio - Twenty people that were involved in a large scale drug trafficking organization in Central Ohio, were sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Joseph P. Reagan, Special Agent in Charge, of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA)...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., Western District of New York, announced today that Eric J. Humphrey, 36, of Amherst, NY, his father, John E. Humphrey, Jr., 55, of Buffalo, NY, and...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Acting United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr., announced today that a physician charged with prescribing pain medications that resulted in the deaths of five patients, unlawful distribution or dispensing of controlled substances and health care fraud, now faces the additional charges of conspiracy, money laundering and...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., Western District of New York, announced today that a federal grand jury has returned two separate indictments charging 10 individuals with narcotics trafficking in the cities...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division, Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Joseph A. D’Amico, the Superintendent of the New York State (NYSP),announced the unsealing yesterday of an indictment and...

SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y. - U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota and the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York Bridget G. Brennan today announced at a news conference in Riverhead the arraignments of an alleged Deer Park...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York, Gracia L. Mayard, a Queens doctor, was sentenced to 54 months in prison and $20,000 forfeiture by United States District Judge Joseph F. Bianco. Mayard pleaded guilty to conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone, a highly addictive...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and William J. Bratton, the Commissioner of the New York City Police (NYPD), today announced the...

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - Acting U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr. today announced the indictment of former Warren County, Kentucky, physician Charles Fred Gott. Gott was indicted on charges of conspiracy to distribute and dispense controlled substances during the course of his professional practice that were not for a legitimate...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Kevin Whitely, 33, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 84 months in prison for distributing marijuana and money laundering. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Joseph P. Reagan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement...