WASHINGTON - DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced the arrests of five defendants - Scott Stammers and Philip Shackels, citizens of the United Kingdom; Ye Tiong Tan Lim, a citizen of the People’s Republic of...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Rools Deslouches, a Brentwood, New York, nurse practitioner, pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York to illegally distributing the highly addictive painkiller oxycodone to customers, whom the defendant knew were drug dealers and addicts, without performing any meaningful...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division and Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York announced the indictment of 10 individuals in connection with a large synthetic marijuana distribution organization in Central New...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) today released the 2013 National Drug Threat Assessment, which provides an up-to-date look at the many challenges local communities face related to drug abuse and drug trafficking. Highlights in the report include drug abuse and trafficking trends for drugs such as heroin, prescription...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Derrick Diaz, the former leader of a crew of robbers who targeted innocent civilians in their homes, was sentenced to 20 years in prison following his February 10, 2012, guilty plea to Hobbs Act robbery conspiracy. The sentence also...

WASHINGTON - Effective today, the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) made the synthetic phenethylamines 25I-NBOMe, 25C-NBOMe, and 25B-NBOMe Schedule I, illegal drugs under the Controlled Substances (CSA) for the next two years. These drugs are marketed online and through illicit channels as illicit hallucinogens such as LSD. They have been...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, Wendell Alomar-Cabrera, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, pled guilty at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, to the October 16, 2006, murder of Luis Sifuentes in Durham, North Carolina. The proceeding took place before United States District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis. When sentenced...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Angel Gregorio Liriano Cruz will be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Roanne L. Mann, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, on heroin and cocaine trafficking charges. Liriano Cruz is alleged to be the leader of an international drug organization responsible for shipping...

WASHINGTON - Michele M. Leonhart, the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York today announced the unsealing of a Superseding Indictment against Dino Bouterse, a citizen of Suriname who held himself out as Commander of that country’s...

WASHINGTON - The American people have again responded in droves to the most recent DEA-led National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. Last Saturday citizens turned in 647,211 (324 tons) of expired and unwanted medications for safe and proper disposal at the 5,683 take-back sites that were available in all 50 states...