NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, and the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced a grand jury indicted a Bronx, New York, man today for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy Raul...

NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced a Newark man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute heroin...

NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, and the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced the leader of an international money laundering organization in the Dominican Republic was arraigned in New Jersey today after...

MADISON, Wis. – Robert J. Bell, DEA Special Agent in Charge, Chicago Division, and Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Travis Hanson, 40, Eau Claire, Wisconsin was sentenced on Friday, September 25, 2020 by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 10...

NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced a federal grand jury has indicted six members of a Paterson street gang on charges of selling heroin and fentanyl...

TERRE HAUTE – DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Michael Gannon said, “On September 15, 2020, an alert citizen noticed six duffle bags in the grass area off of Interstate-70 East by mile marker 37 (halfway between Terre Haute and Indianapolis, Indiana). Upon receiving the information, members of the Putnam...

NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced a Passaic County, New Jersey, man today admitted conspiring to distribute heroin and to distributing a quantity of fentanyl. Cequan...

MILWAUKEE – At a press conference in Milwaukee today, Attorney General William P. Barr announced updates on Operation Legend. He was joined by Robert J. Bell, DEA Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Division, and Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, who...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Robert J. Bell, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge, Chicago Division, and United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler, announced the dismantling of a drug trafficking organization that brought large quantities of illegal drugs into southwest Indiana. Eleven defendants were indicted by a grand jury in Evansville...

On September 4, 2020, Robert J. Bell, DEA Special Agent in Charge, Chicago Division, announced that on July 8, 2020, U.S. Attorney Matthew D. Krueger joined Attorney General William P. Barr in announcing the launch of Operation Legend, a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative in which federal law...