NEW YORK CITY – U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget G. Brennan, New York City Police Commissioner Dermot F. Shea, New York State Police Superintendent Keith M. Corlett and Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – A 12-count indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Daniel E. Russo, a pharmacist, with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone, distribution and possession of oxycodone, distribution of oxycodone by a pharmacist without legitimate prescription and filing false tax returns...

SEATTLE – A repeat offender, who was arrested in Pioneer Square armed with a concealed pistol with hollow point bullets, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 101 months in prison and five years of supervised release. Jonathan Rushing, 40, was convicted in October 2019 following a...

ALBANY, N.Y. – Jacob Ebel, 32, of Niverville, N.Y., was sentenced today to 18 years in prison after admitting that he distributed heroin and fentanyl to two people who died in Columbia County in July 2016. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, DEA New York...

PORTLAND, Ore . – Darlene Michelle Sturdevant, 61, of Vancouver, Wash., was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison and five years’ supervised release for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin throughout the Portland metropolitan area, possessing with intent to distribute heroin, and committing an...

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. – Francisco Alarcon Badillo, 28, a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty on Jan. 17 to selling crystal methamphetamine while employed at the Saratoga Race Course. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith; DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and Saratoga...

SEATTLE -- A Skagit County resident who operated businesses in Burlington and Sedro Woolley, Washington was sentenced on Jan. 17, 2020, in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 18 months in prison for his role in knowingly laundering cash drug proceeds for a drug cartel. Orlando Barajas, 41, owns and...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., and DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced today that Quinton Jones, 40, of Buffalo, who was convicted of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, five kilograms or more of cocaine, was sentenced to...

SEATTLE – Matthew Sean Bremond, 32, of Soldotna, Alaska, was sentenced yesterday by Sr. U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline, to serve nine years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing large quantities of heroin throughout the Kenai Peninsula. In September 2019, Bremond pleaded guilty...

NEWARK, N.J. -- An Illinois man today admitted conspiring to transport heroin and cocaine to New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Daniel Gonzalez Maldonado, 25, of Carpentersville, Ill., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton in Newark federal court to an information charging him with one count...