LAS VEGAS - Former Las Vegas physician Vinay Bararia, 44, was sentenced today to 44 months in prison and three years of supervised release for unlawfully selling hydrocodone and oxycodone to an undercover DEA agent in a hospital parking lot, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Bryant Andrew Delaremore, a career criminal who committed gun offenses for decades, was sentenced to 234 months in prison following his February 2, 2012, guilty plea to possession of a firearm after having previously been convicted of three violent...

LOS ANGELES - Approximately 1,000 law enforcement officials, including the DEA Los Angeles’s Field Division’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking (HIDTA) Southern California Drug Task Force, fanned out across the Fashion District in downtown Los Angeles and executed dozens of search and arrest warrants linked to businesses suspected of using a...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William J. Bratton, the Commissioner of the New York City Police (NYPD)...

ALBANY, N.Y. - United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced today the distribution of $12,515,738 which represented the proceeds of assets seized in a marijuana distribution conspiracy. Of the total assets, $8,923,708.19 has been distributed to 33 law enforcement agencies in the Capitol District area and as far away as...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Robert M. Faiella, a/k/a “BTCKing,” an underground Bitcoin exchanger, and Charlie Shrem, formerly the Chief Executive Officer and Compliance Officer of a Bitcoin exchange company, both pleades guilty yesterday before U.S. District...

OTSEGO, N.Y. - Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) James J. Hunt, Otsego County Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr., and Oneonta Police Department Chief Dennis R. Nayor announce the arrest of three time convicted drug felon Wayne Collins, age 48, of Oneonta...

LOS ANGELES - A Dutch national pleaded guilty late Tuesday to federal drug trafficking and money laundering charges, admitting he conspired to run a secret, on-line narcotics marketplace known as the “The Farmer's Market” that sold controlled substances such as LSD, Ecstasy, and marijuana to thousands of customers around the...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Philip R. Bartlett, the Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection (“USPIS”), Jeffrey G. Hughes, Special Agent-in-Charge, Northeast Field Office, of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Inspector (“VA-OIG”)...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Thomas O’Donnell, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the...