NEW ORLEANS - A federal jury has convicted Lazandy Daniels, 40, of the St. Roch neighborhood of New Orleans, for his role in distributing kilograms of cocaine in the New Orleans area, announced DEA Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans. Following a...

ALBANY, N.Y. - Dujuan Pleasant, age 35, of Schenectady, New York, pled guilty today to distributing crack cocaine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, New York...

NEW YORK - Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, announced today the indictment of Alec Brook-Krasny, a former New York State Assemblyman, on four counts of Commercial Bribing in the First Degree. The charges are based on the continuing investigation into two medical clinics in Brooklyn allegedly...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (“DEA”), Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Thomas Zugibe, the Rockland County District Attorney, today announced the unsealing of an...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - - A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging medical doctor Martin Tesher, 81, of Manhattan, New York, with writing thousands of illegal prescriptions for Schedule II controlled substances, particularly opioids such as oxycodone, without a legitimate medical purpose. Tesher was arrested earlier...

New York - - James Capers, aka “Mitch,” was sentenced to 42 years in prison for the murder of Allen McQueen and participating in racketeering and narcotics conspiracies. The charges were all in connection with a violent street gang known as the “Leland Avenue Crew,” which is based primarily in...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - - 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, Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas J. Spota, New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill and George P. Beach II, Superintendent...

MOBILE, Ala. - Today, John Patrick Couch and Xiulu Ruan were sentenced to respectively 240 months and 252 months in federal prison for running a massive pill mill in Mobile, Alabama, announced DEA Special Agent-in-Charge Stephen G. Azzam and Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of...

NEW YORK, N.Y. - - Later today Gustavo Bermudez-Vanegas will be arraigned at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, on an international cocaine distribution conspiracy charge. The defendant was arrested in Colombia on a provisional arrest warrant issued from the Eastern District of New York and subsequently extradited from...