DOVER, DE. - Special Agent in Charge, John Bryfonski of the Philadelphia Division, Delaware Governor Jack Markell, Delaware State Attorney General Beau Biden, Health and Social Services Secretary Rita Landgraf, Deputy Secretary of State James Collins, Deputy Secretary of Safety and Homeland Security Elizabeth Olsen, and Delaware police chiefs held...

PHILADELPHIA, PA - Christopher Vassalluzzo, D.O., 47, of New Hope, PA, pleaded guilty today to participating in a conspiracy to operate an office that was, in fact, a “pill mill” that distributed millions of prescription controlled substance diet drugs outside a professional practice. Vassalluzzo’s office, where he had others operate...

MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Rhonda A. Diffenbach, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division announce yesterday’s sentencing of defendant Hugo Oliva...

MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Anthony V. Mangione, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’(ICE), Homeland Security (HSI), Miami Field Division, Chadwick E. Wagner, Chief...

MIAMI, FL. - Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division Special Agent in Charge Mark R. Trouville announces the Immediate Suspension of the DEA Certificate of Registration for Dr. Nader Shehata. The DEA and its state and local partners continue Operation Pill Nation enforcement and administrative actions today serving Dr. Shehata...

PHILADELPHIA, PA - Zachary Young, 52, and Mark Williams, 27, both of Philadelphia, were convicted today of a drug conspiracy in which a phony arrest was orchestrated in order to steal drugs from a drug dealer. At the time of the crime, Williams was a Philadelphia Police Officer assigned to...

PITTSBURGH, PA - Thirty-eight individuals have been charged in three separate indictments with violating federal narcotics trafficking and firearms laws, United States Attorney in the Western District of Pennsylvania David J. Hickton and other federal law enforcement officials announced today. “We want to advise violent criminals who tyrannize the neighborhoods...

MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announced the unsealing of an indictment against defendants Rene Sanabria-Oropeza, Milton Sanchez-Pantoja, Marcelo Foronda-Azero, and Jorge Sanchez-Pantoja, all Bolivian nationals...

MIAMI, FL. - Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division Special Agent in Charge Mark R. Trouville announces the activation of a “pill mill” tip line. Over the last year, Operation Pill Nation investigators made hundreds of undercover purchases of prescription drugs from doctors in South Florida rogue pain clinics. The...

MIAMI, FL. - DEA Agents, with assistance from its federal, state, and local law enforcement partners, arrested 22 people and seized over $2.2 million in cash and 70 vehicles, including numerous exotic cars, on Wednesday, February 23 in a sweeping takedown of rogue pain clinics in South Florida. These arrests...