BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Igor Krugly was sentenced by United States District Judge Brian M. Cogan to 46 months’ imprisonment following his conviction for racketeering, including illegal gambling and extortion conspiracy as predicate acts. Krugly was a prominent member of a violent, Brooklyn-based, Eastern...

NEW YORK - Joon H. Kim, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Charles Gardner, Yonkers Police Department (the “YPD”); and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), announced today the arrest of Ansley R. Estrella, Ronald...

ALBANY, N.Y. - Tyleek Deramus, age 19, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 27 months in prison for possessing crack cocaine with the intent to distribute it. The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge James...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Edward Carrillo, also known as “Super Ed,” was sentenced by United States District Judge Brian M. Cogan to 10 ½ years’ imprisonment for conspiring to distribute fentanyl in West Virginia. The fentanyl the defendant distributed was linked to the...

NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Division of the DEA and Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that James Rosemond, a/k/a “Jimmy the Henchman,” was found guilty last night of murder-for-hire, conspiracy to...

BOSTON - Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division and Acting United States Attorney William D. Weinreb spoke with members of the media today about Monday’s launch of a state-wide opioid abuse prevention campaign. The initiative seeks to inform the public and spur conversation...

NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) New York Division, Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill, New York State Police Superintendent George P. Beach II and U.S. Postal Inspection Service...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Dr. Paul Biddle, 53, of Amherst, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with obtaining controlled substances through fraud and identity theft. The drug charges carry a maximum possible term of four years in prison, while the identity theft charges carry a maximum possible term of...

NEW YORK - Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Frank Mercedes was found guilty yesterday of murder in connection with a drug conspiracy, murder-for-hire, murder-for-hire conspiracy, and use of a firearm resulting in death, for his role in the...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Jose Matos, 29, and Jeremias Matos, 28, both of Syracuse, were arraigned on November 21, 2017 on an indictment charging them with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin and for possessing a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime. Jeremias Matos is also charged...