NEWARK, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a California man was sentenced today to 76 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to...

ALBANY, N.Y. - - Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division, George P. Beach II, Superintendent of the New York State (NYSP), and New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill announced today...

ALBANY, N.Y. - - Jacob Ebel, age 29, of Niverville, New York, was arraigned today on charges that he distributed heroin and fentanyl that caused two overdose deaths in Columbia County in July 2016. The announcement was made by James J. Hunt, Special Agent-in-Charge, New York Division of the U.S...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - - Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division and Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that James Wilkie, Remus Nowak, and Fernando Rodriguez, of Buffalo, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to possess with...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Robert L. Capers, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York announced today the arrests of nine defendants for their role in an international steroid distribution ring. The charges against the...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - - An indictment and two complaints were unsealed today in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging nine defendants with conspiring to distribute heroin and/or oxycodone in Staten Island, New York. Eight defendants were arrested earlier today in Staten Island and...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police (NYPD), today announced the...

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. - - Thomas A. Burnell, 34, of Plattsburgh, New York, was charged today with distributing heroin resulting in another person’s death. Burnell is detained pending a detention hearing before Magistrate Judge Gary L. Favro on February 14, 2017. The announcement was made by James Hunt, Special Agent-in-Charge of...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police (NYPD), announced the...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - - Roosevelt Williams, aka “Mumsie,” 59, was sentenced to a term of 12 years in prison, and forfeiture of over $100,000 in drug proceeds and property, for his extensive heroin dealing in and around Poughkeepsie, New York. As set forth in Williams’s plea agreement, and the materials...