BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Juan Roberto Rincon-Rincon, one of the highest ranking members of the Gulf Cartel, has been ordered to federal prison for life following his convictions related to a large drug trafficking conspiracy, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Javier F. Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson...

LAREDO, Texas - - Elizabeth Nevarez, 44, of Laredo, has been ordered to prison for nearly five years following her conviction of one count of money laundering, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Nevarez entered into a written plea...

AUSTIN, Texas - - In Austin, four men face up to 20 years in federal prison after a jury convicted them of their roles in a complex conspiracy to launder millions of dollars in illicit Los Zetas drug trafficking proceeds to purchase, train, breed, and race American quarter horses in...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - John Venizelos, also known as “John V,” “Big Man” and “John from Staten Island,” an alleged associate of the Bonanno organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra, pled guilty earlier today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Joan M. Azrack at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn to drug trafficking...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, an indictment was unsealed charging Queens Doctor Gracia L. Mayard with illegal distribution of oxycodone, a highly-addictive prescription medicine used to treat severe pain. Mayard is scheduled to be arraigned at 3:00 p.m. today before United States District Judge Joseph F. Bianco, at the United...

NEW YORK - The United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) Sixth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day this past Saturday collected 50 percent more pills nationally and 55 percent more in New York State than last September, demonstrating the American public’s continued appreciation and need for the opportunity to discard unwanted, unused...

NEW YORK - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the United States has settled a civil lawsuit against Madison Avenue...

MANHATTAN - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that Jose Evaristo Linares Castillo was extradited from Colombia on charges that he conspired...

AUSTIN, Texas - Federal, state and local authorities have arrested 37 individuals in connection with two related drug trafficking conspiracies based in Austin announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Javier Pena, United States Attorney Robert Pitman, and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez. A...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James T. Hayes, Jr., the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of...