ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Drug Enforcement Administration's New York Enforcement Division Special Agent-in-Charge Farhana Islam , U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo, and FBI Buffalo Special Agent-in-Charge Allen D. Davis II, announced today that Rodney Stanley, 58, of Greece, NY, Leonardo Gaskin, 36, of West Henrietta, NY, and Shanimba Nelson, 52, of Irondequoit...

Special Agent in Charge of the New York Task Force Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), Christopher Roberts, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jamie McDonald, and Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) Jessica S. Tisch, announced today the unsealing of a...

EL PASO, Texas – A federal jury convicted an El Paso man for three counts related to fentanyl trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney Justin R. Simmons for the Western District of Texas. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Charles Arellano, 45, was a fentanyl dealer who came under...

United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jamie McDonald, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), Jessica S. Tisch, and Special Agent in Charge of the New York Task Force Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), Christopher Roberts, announced the conviction at trial today...

EL PASO - A Mexican national, Luis Carlos Davalos-Lopez, 29, pleaded guilty today in El Paso, Texas, to conspiracy to bring in aliens to the United States. According to court documents, Davalos-Lopez conspired with others to smuggle migrants through an underground tunnel from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to El Paso, Texas...

EL PASO - Two Mexican nationals pleaded guilty today to multiple charges including alien smuggling and providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, specifically, Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG). “This is but two more guilty pleas added in DEA’s long and sustained efforts against CJNG and its...

ALBANY, NEW YORK – Dwight A. Singletary II, aka “Nutt” and “Mike Jones,” age 44, of Fresno, California and Troy, New York, pled guilty August 25, 2026, to leading a nationwide marijuana and THC trafficking organization that shipped thousands of kilograms of marijuana from Fresno to locations throughout the United...

New York - On Friday, August 21, 2026, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will join Facing Fentanyl , to unite families, communities, and organizations across the country in recognizing National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day. This year marks the fifth anniversary of the national observance which honors and remembers the...

Seven individuals were arrested as law enforcement officers disrupted an active fentanyl packaging mill operating in a sixth-floor apartment on Bronx Boulevard in the Wakefield neighborhood of the Bronx on Tuesday night. Approximately four kilograms (eight pounds) of fentanyl mixtures carrying a street value of over $1 million were recovered...

NEW YORK – Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Enforcement Division Special Agent in Charge Farhana Islam and New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the takedown of a major drug trafficking ring that distributed large quantities of cocaine, fentanyl, and heroin across Western New York and Puerto Rico. An investigation...