BUFFALO, N.Y. - Attorney James P. Kennedy and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division announced today that Troy Gillon, Jr., 25, of Lockport, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, oxymorphone, possession with intent...

NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division, Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, and George P. Beach II, Superintendent of the New York State Police, announced today the indictment of six individuals in connection with...

NEW YORK - Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division, announced that Nico Burrell, a/k/a “Zico Nico,” a leader of a violent street gang in the Bronx called the...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Colin Stewart, age 41, of Elgin, Quebec, Canada, pled guilty today to conspiracy to distribute marijuana. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, New York Division, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA). Stewart admitted that he and...

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. - A sizable amount of marijuana and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash were seized in Pleasantville Thursday following an investigation by members of a multi-agency Westchester County narcotics task force. A search warrant was served at 204 Washington Avenue by officers from the U.S. Drug...

NEW YORK - Yesterday, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Yefferson Rodriguez-Lopez, a member of a violent robbery crew that operated in the New York metropolitan area from 1998 to 2003, was sentenced by United States District Judge Raymond J. Dearie to 18 years’ imprisonment and five years’ supervised release...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced today that Stevie Alejandro, 31, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of...

PORTLAND, Ore. - Misraim Israel Briones Pasos aka Mario Ozuna, 36, of Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico, was sentenced today to 151 months in prison for his role in a vast conspiracy responsible for trafficking hundreds of pounds of black tar heroin from Nayarit, Mexico to the Portland metropolitan area. “Most of...

SEATTLE - A task force led by the Drug Enforcement (DEA) today arrested 15 people and continues to search for an additional six defendants charged in connection with a long-term investigation of drug trafficking. Law enforcement served search warrants at eight locations and searched more than a dozen vehicles. At...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced the sentencing of two men who were convicted of conspiracy to manufacture, possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, a...