NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced the second-in-command of the New Jersey set of the Grape Street Crips street gang today admitted his role...

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a high-ranking member of the New Jersey set of the Grape Street Crips today admitted his role in orchestrating a...

WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice has designated Robert W. Patterson as the Drug Enforcement Administration acting administrator. Patterson was appointed as DEA’s principal deputy administrator in November 2016. In that role, he served as DEA’s chief operating officer, overseeing all of the agency’s enforcement, intelligence, administrative, and regulatory activities...

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a soldier of the Sex Money Murder set of the Bloods street gang was sentenced today to 264...

NEW YORK - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown and Bronx...

TRENTON, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a South Gate, California, man who was arrested with 29 kilograms of methamphetamine hidden in a tractor trailer...

TRENTON, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced an Anaheim, California man today admitted laundering money on behalf of an international drug trafficking organization. Harry Madrid...

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced a California man who swallowed plastic bags containing approximately 600 grams of heroin admitted today that he possessed the drug with...

NEW YORK - Carl J. Kotowski, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Maurice Malin, 83, of Suffern, N.Y. pleaded guilty today before U.S...

TRENTON, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a DeKalb, Illinois, man who was arrested transporting four kilograms of heroin to Indiana pleaded guilty today in Trenton federal...