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...

SHREVEPORT, La. - A man from California was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in prison for conspiring to transport methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley and Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook. Maquel L. Shelby, 37, of Hawthorne, Calif., was sentenced by...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Four individuals were arrested today after being indicted by a federal grand jury for their role in operating a “pill mill,” out of a Montgomery, Alabama medical office, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Bret Hamilton and United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr...

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...

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...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Dr. Gilberto Sanchez, 56, of Cecil, Alabama, pleaded guilty today to drug distribution conspiracy, health care fraud, and money laundering charges, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Bret Hamilton and United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. from the Middle District of Alabama. According...

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...