NEWARK - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced Dr. Priscilla Ilem admitted today to illegally selling oxycodone prescriptions from her Wayne office. Ilem, 85...

NEW ORLEANS, LA - Steven Weathersby, 31, a resident of Kenner, Louisiana, was sentenced yesterday by U. S. District Judge Sarah S. Vance to over 21 (262 months) imprisonment after pleading guilty to cocaine distribution charges. In addition to the term of imprisonment, Judge Vance imposed eight years of supervisory...

NEWARK, N.J. - -Between November 3 and December 7, 2011, a single patient obtained a four-month supply of oxycodone and methadone by presenting prescriptions, now believed to be forged, to three New Jersey pharmacies on a total of 14 occasions. The patient circumvented the safeguards that pharmacies and insurance carriers...

NEWARK, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced Joan Manuel Pina Dominguez, 20, a/k/a “Christian Colon,” admitted conspiring with others to operate...

Seventeen San Antonio-based members of the Texas (TS) have been charged by federal grand jury indictment with conspiring to violate the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt (RICO) statute. The announcement was made today by United States Attorney Robert Pitman, DEA Special Agent in Charge Javier Pena, U.S. Marshal Robert Almonte, ATF Special...

NEWARK, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Theodore J. Romankow, the Prosecutor for the Union County Prosecutor’s Office, announced the arrests of seven defendants and the seizure of approximately 250 grams of heroin. A joint...

NEWARK, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced the owner of a Newark auto dealership and his father were arrested today and...

NEWARK, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced that a doctor with a practice in Elizabeth, N.J., was sentenced today to 43 months...

NEWARK, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) along with Paula T. Dow, State of New Jersey Attorney General, and Thomas R. Calcagni, Director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, today led a group of statewide...

NEWARK, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced Enrique Done of Newark today admitted his involvement in conspiring to possess and distribute...