SEATTLE - Twelve members of a drug trafficking group distributing fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine throughout the Puget Sound region were arrested today following a year-long investigation and two grand jury indictments. The members of the conspiracies engaged in trafficking activities from Mexico, through California and Oregon, and into the...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Tracey Wynn, 38, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, 500 grams...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Abner Peralta, 31, and Luis Colon, 35, both of Utica, New York, were sentenced today in federal court in Utica after previously being found guilty after trial of drug trafficking charges. Peralta was sentenced to serve 60 months in federal prison, followed by a 4-year term of...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that today that Timothy J. Chowaniec, 62, of West Seneca, NY, was arrested and charged by complaint with possessing with the intent distribute, and distributing, five grams of...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that today that Juan Padua, 32, and Michael Vasquez, 24, both of Buffalo, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiring to possess with intent to...

SEATTLE - Fifteen people were arrested today throughout the Puget Sound region and in California following an 18-month investigation of a drug trafficking organization tied to the CJNG cartel in Mexico. Defendants arrested today made their initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Seattle. The South Sound Streets are safer...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Tameshwar Ammar, a former medical doctor in Roslyn, New York, pleaded guilty via teleconference to conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone. Ammar was indicted in November 2019. On June 22, 2020, he relinquished his license to practice medicine. Today’s plea...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Troy Jackson, 43, of Syracuse, New York, was sentenced today to serve 46 months in prison for his conviction for participating in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, Thomas F. Relford, Special...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. –Wynn, 43, of Syracuse, New York, was sentenced today to serve 92 months in prison for violating the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) as part of the 110 Gang. In imposing sentence, Senior United States District Judge Frederick J. Scullin, Jr. also ordered Wynn to serve three...

NEW YORK - Today, Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Leigh-Alistair Barzey, Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast Field Office of the U.S...