BOSTON, MA. - A former Needham physician and a nurse practitioner who worked with him were charged today in U.S. District Court with illegally distributing controlled substances resulting in deaths. Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England and Carmen Ortiz, United States...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) today exercised its emergency scheduling authority to control five (JWH-018, JWH-073, JWH-200, CP-47,497, and cannabicyclohexanol) used to make so-called “fake pot” products. Except as authorized by law, this action makes possessing and selling these chemicals or the products that contain them...

HARTFORD, CT. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RICHARD TORRES-RIOS, 41, of Maunabo, Puerto Rico, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Alfred V...

STAMFORD, CT. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Glen Thomas, also known as “G,” 38, of Orchard Street, Stamford, was sentenced today by Chief United States...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The DEA and U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets (OFAC) today announced the designation of Colombian national Jorge Milton Cifuentes (a.k.a. Elkin de Jesus Lopez Salazar) and more than 70 individuals and entities in Cifuentes Villa’s drug trafficking and money laundering organization as Specially...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of the Treasury designated today the New Ansari Money Exchange, a major money laundering vehicle for Afghan narcotics trafficking organizations, along with 15 affiliated individuals and entities under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation (Kingpin Act). T he New Ansari Money Exchange is at the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart today hailed the White House announcement of President Obama’s nomination of Special Agent Thomas Harrigan to serve as DEA Deputy Administrator. “I am extremely pleased by President Obama’s nomination of career DEA Special Agent Thomas M. Harrigan to be the next Deputy...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart today hailed the White House announcement of President Obama’s intent to nominate Special Agent Thomas Harrigan to serve as DEA Deputy Administrator. “I am extremely pleased by President Obama’s intention to nominate career DEA Special Agent Thomas M. Harrigan to be the...

MERIDEN, CT. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Trevoy Marrow, 30, of Kensington Avenue, Meriden, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant...

NEW YORK, NY - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Administrator Michele M. Leonhart and Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the unsealing of charges against seven defendants for conspiring to provide various forms of support to DEA confidential sources whom they believed to be...