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Operation Sour/Kush Yields Multiple Arrests, Weapons, Narcotics, And Currency

PATERSON, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) along with Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes, Clifton Police Chief Gary F. Giardina, and Acting Passaic Police Chief Richard Diaz, announced the stunning results of a nearly year-long...
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Leader Of Cocaine Smuggling Organization Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Conspiracy To Use Commercial Airlines To Smuggle Drugs From West Indies To England Through The United States

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 extradited leader of an organization that smuggled cocaine aboard commercial airlines from the...
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International Narcotics Trafficker And Money International Trafficker Convicted On Narcotics Conspiracy Charges In Manhattan Federal Court Defendant Was Top Lieutenant To Colombian Drug Kingpin Francisco Gonzalez Uribe

MANHATTAN, NY. - Wilbert L. Plummer, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement ("DEA") and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Jose Mosquera-Prado, 36, a top lieutenant of Colombian drug kingpin Francisco Gonzalez Uribe, was...
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges Doctor And Associates As Members Of A Conspiracy To Distribute Oxycodone And Cocaine

WHITE PLAINS, NY. - Wilbert L. Plummer, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the arrests today of Fernando DeJesus, Efrain DeJesus, Felix Rodriguez, Carol Reynolds...
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Bloods Street Gang Leader Charged With Possessing Weapons And Conspiring To Distribute Drugs

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 that an alleged leader of the Sex Money Murder set of the Bloods street...
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Texas Businessman Found Guilty Of Laundering Millions Of Dollars For A Mexican Narcotics Trafficking Organization

NEWARK, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell , the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Vikram Datta, the owner of multiple retail perfume stores located on the...
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District Attorney Vance And White House Drug Policy Director Kerlikowske Host Panel Discussion In Washington Heights On Drug Abuse Prevention Rates Of Death Declining In NYC In All Major Drug Categories Except Prescription Drugs DA’s Office To Partner

MANHATTAN, NY. - Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. and White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Director Gil Kerlikowske led a panel discussion on combating drug abuse in New York City neighborhoods. Local community leaders, law enforcement officials, and health services organizations joined District Attorney Vance and...
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Former FARC Guerilla Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison For Providing Material Support To A Foreign Terrorist Organization

MANHATTAN, NY. - Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division United States Drug Enforcement Administration Wilbert L. Plummer and United States Attorney Preet Bharara for the Southern District of New York, announced that Yarlei Bañol-Ramos, a former guerilla for the 57th Front of the Fuerzas Armadas...
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Buffalo Man Pleads Guilty To Manufacturing Marijuana Plants

BUFFALO, NY. - Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division United States Drug Enforcement Administration Wilbert L. Plummer and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced yesterday that Russell D. Biery, 40, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara, to conspiracy...
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New Jersey Man Sentenced To 87 Months In Prison For Possessing Oxycodone For Sale Illegally

CAMDEN, 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 a Rio Grande, N.J., man who traveled to Florida 29 times to illegally...