BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Bradley Bender, Southampton Town Councilman, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone. The plea was entered before U.S. Magistrate Judge Anne Y. Shields at the federal courthouse in Central Islip. Today’s guilty plea was announced by Robert L. Capers, United States Attorney for the Eastern...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, New York Division, Drug Enforcement (DEA), and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Joseph Thompson, 58, of Lockport, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute heroin, crack cocaine and fentanyl...

NEW YORK - A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in the Eastern District of New York charging John Wolf with conspiring to possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possession and distribution of child pornography. The defendant was arrested earlier today at his residence, and his initial...

ALBANY, N.Y. - Anthony Redd, age 32, of Troy, New York, was sentenced today to 24 months of imprisonment for distributing crack cocaine, announced by Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, New York Division, Drug Enforcement (DEA) and United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian. United States District Judge Mae...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - The United States Attorney’s Office, Western District of New York and the Drug Enforcement Administration is hosting “Our Community, Our Epidemic: Turning Drug Awareness into Action.” This summit, which will examine the prescription drug abuse and heroin epidemic that continues to sweep across Western New York and...

QUEENS COUNTY, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, New York State Police Superintendent Joseph A. D’Amico, and New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton, today announced that a Texas man and...

MINEOLA, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York, Acting Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas and Acting Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter, Nassau County Police Department announced the indictment of a cardiologist who allegedly contracted hitmen to kill a competing doctor, in a murder-for-hire...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Michael Troyan, a physician assistant who operated two urgent care clinics on the East End of Long Island was arrested this morning pursuant to a grand jury indictment with conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone, a highly addictive prescription pain medication. Also this morning, a search warrant was...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York, and William J. Hochul, Jr., United States Attorney for the Western District of New York announced that Peter N. Militello, 34, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute and distribution...

LOS ANGELES - A Rowland Heights doctor was convicted today of three counts of second-degree murder for prescribing massive quantities of addictive and dangerous drugs to patients with no legitimate need, three of whom died of overdoses. A jury of ten women and two men found Hsiu Ying “Lisa” Tseng...