CAMDEN, N.J. – Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a New York man is scheduled to appear in court today on charges of selling dangerous designer drugs, fentanyl, and...

CAMDEN, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Valerie A. Nickerson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Craig Carpenito today announced a Hammonton, New Jersey man was sentenced to 108 months in prison for engaging in a conspiracy to distribute...

Newark, N.J. – Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, has announced the official designation of the DEA Monmouth/Ocean County Post of Duty. “The creation of this new office means the permanent assignment of DEA special agents and task force officers,” said...

NEWARK, N.J. – Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division today announced the formation of the Newark/Philadelphia Regional Medicare Fraud Strike Force (Regional Strike Force), a joint law enforcement effort that brings together the resources and expertise of the Health Care Fraud Unit in the...

TAMPA, Fla. – Eleven members of a drug trafficking organization have pled guilty to charges stemming from conspiracy to distribute more than one kilogram of heroin, 400 hundred grams of fentanyl, and 100 grams of a fentanyl analogue. This distribution resulted in four deaths and in serious bodily injury to...

WEST PALM BEACH , Fla. - Wilfredo Roy Madrigal, a/k/a “Fredo,” a/k/a “Wolfman,” 34, of Palm Beach County was sentenced yesterday by a federal judge to 10 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, after previously pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin...

TAMPA, Fla. - Jorge Eliecer Cifuentes-Cuero (54, Colombia, South America) was sentenced today to 21 years in federal prison for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine while aboard a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. According to court documents...

LAKE WORTH, Fla. - Roberto Paul Mendoza, 28, of Palm Beach County, pleaded guilty yesterday to three counts of distribution of heroin, carfentanyl, and cocaine; one count of possession with intent to distribute heroin; and one count of knowingly possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. According to the...

NEWARK, N.J. – Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, and Gregory W. Ehrie, Special Agent-in-Charge of the FBI’s Newark Field Office announced three members of the New Jersey set of the violent street gang...

TAMPA, Fla. – Jeffrey John Abraham (52, formerly of Tampa) has pleaded guilty to distributing controlled substances not specified in his Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registration. He faces a maximum penalty of four years’ imprisonment and a fine of up to $250,000. His sentencing date has not yet been set...