SAN DIEGO – The Drug Enforcement Administration San Diego Field Division is announcing the RxAbuse Tip Line for the public to report suspicious, fraudulent, and illegal pharmaceutical activities. Tips can include information about doctors or pharmacists who are illegally dispensing medications, as well as information about people who are doctor...

CENTRAL ISLIP, NY –U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini today announced the arrest of a Smithtown man for allegedly posing as a medical professional and illegally operating a health clinic, at which he allegedly illegally...

BROOKLYN, NY –Aleksey Tsvetkov, a leader of a violent, Brooklyn-based Eastern European organized crime syndicate that operated primarily in the Sheepshead Bay, Brighton Beach and Coney Island neighborhoods, was sentenced today in federal court in Brooklyn to 198 months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay $1,145,339.90 in restitution following his conviction...

NEW YORK CITY – Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon today announced that the DEA will direct enforcement resources to methamphetamine “transportation hubs” — areas where methamphetamine is often trafficked in bulk and then distributed across the country. While continuing to focus on stopping drugs being smuggled across the...

WASHINGTON – Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon today announced that the DEA will direct enforcement resources to methamphetamine “transportation hubs” — areas where methamphetamine is often trafficked in bulk and then distributed across the country. While continuing to focus on stopping drugs being smuggled across the border, DEA’s...

NEW YORK CITY – Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, announced that Frank Moss, a/k/a “Jigga,” a Poughkeepsie drug dealer whose fentanyl led to the overdose deaths of...

SYRACUSE, NY – Kyle Leeper, 36, of Palmyra, Pennsylvania, Ramon Nieves Cotto, 28, of DeRuyter, New York, and Arlene Rodriguez, 36, of Montebello, California, were named as defendants Thursday in a federal superseding indictment that includes charges of murder during a drug conspiracy, conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent...

BUFFALO, N.Y.— U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced today that Tammy Hoover, 41, of Niagara Falls, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, five kilograms or more of...

BRONX, N.Y. – New York Attorney General Letitia James, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York State Police Superintendent Keith M. Corlett, New York City Police Department Commissioner Dermot F. Shea, and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge New York...

BUFFALO, N.Y.— U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced today that Julian Brown, 47, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of distribution of crack cocaine, was sentenced to serve 30 months in prison by U.S. District...