MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the conviction of KEVIN LOWE, the owner of “Astramed,” a purported medical clinic with multiple locations in the Bronx, New York, and from which more than five million tablets of the prescription painkiller...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - James Hunt, Special Agent in (SAC) of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Thomas Zugibe, Rockland County District Attorney, and Ed Day, Rockland County Executive, announced that 14 defendants pleaded...

NEW YORK - Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson, together with James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton and Joseph D’Amico, Superintendent of the New York State Police, today announced that nine...

ALBANY, NEW YORK - On Friday December 18, a jury convicted Raymond P. Baker, age 36, of Schenectady, New York, of conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin, announced Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, New York Division, Drug Enforcement Administration and United States Attorney Richard...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt and Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Adel Abdullah, 32, of Lackawanna, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, controlled substance analogues, before Senior...

SAN DIEGO - This morning, the DEA San Diego Field Division’s Narcotics Task (NTF) along with the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department and Health Advocates Rejecting Marijuana, (HARM) announce the total amount of illegal marijuana plants seized in San Diego County in 2015. During calendar year 2015, NTF and our...

NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Delano A. Reid, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Bureau...

NEW YORK - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Shantelle P. Kitchen, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue...

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. - Billy Slick, age 54, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison as a result of his conviction for conspiracy to manufacture, possess with intent to distribute and distribute methamphetamine. The announcement was made by Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, New York Division, Drug Enforcement...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Bradley Bender, Southampton Town Councilman, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone. The plea was entered before U.S. Magistrate Judge Anne Y. Shields at the federal courthouse in Central Islip. Today’s guilty plea was announced by Robert L. Capers, United States Attorney for the Eastern...