Special Agent in Charge of the New York Enforcement Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), Farhana Islam, and United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging MARK DYGDON and RODRIGO CASTRO in connection with the defendants’ distribution...

Albuquerque, New Mexico – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration El Paso Field Division and United Against Fentanyl (UAF) Rio Rancho Chapter will host a local Walk for Lives 2026 event at Haynes Community Center and Park on July 11, 2026 from 4-6 p.m. in support of DEA’s Fentanyl Free America...

CLEVELAND – A DEA Detroit Field Division investigation has led to the sentencing of a 36-year-old man for manufacturing fentanyl and methamphetamine pills and using his home daycare as part of the drug trafficking operation. Larry Crenshaw-Broadnax was sentenced to 144 months (12 years) in prison by U.S. District Judge...

PORTLAND, Ore.—A Vancouver, Washington, woman was sentenced to federal prison last Tuesday for distributing fentanyl resulting in two overdose deaths. Alondra Stephanie Trujillo, 34, was sentenced to 100 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release. She was also ordered to pay $6,349.00 in restitution. “The tragic fentanyl...

NEWARK, N.J. –The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and United Against Fentanyl (UAF) announced a national partnership in support of DEA’s Fentanyl Free America initiative. Walk for Lives 2026 is a coordinated series of more than 100 family-led community events across the United States on July 11, 2026. These events aim...

CAMDEN, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's New Jersey Field Division Towanda R. Thorne-James and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Robert Frazer announced a Camden County pharmacist was charged in an indictment with unlawfully distributing oxycodone, and his wife was separately charged...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Stericycle Inc., an international waste management company headquartered in Lake Forest, Illinois, has agreed to pay more than $56 million to resolve parallel criminal and civil investigations into its improper handling of controlled substances between 2015 and 2020, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant and Drug Enforcement Administration Special...

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – A federal indictment has been unsealed, charging SHANE MICHAEL BURGESS, 24, of Mustang, Oklahoma, with distributing a controlled substance analogue resulting in death. According to the Indictment, on December 12, 2025, Burgess distributed a substance containing N-Propionitrile Chlorphine, a synthetic opioid known as cychlorphine, to another...

Seattle – A 37-year-old Mexican national, a former resident of Issaquah, Washington, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to six years in prison for his role in an armed drug trafficking ring that sought drug customers in Seattle’s homeless encampments and International District. Giovanni Antonio Garduno Garcia...

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Drug Enforcement Administration New York Task Force Division Special Agent in Charge Christopher Roberts, Nassau County District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly, and USPIS Inspector in Charge Ketty Larco-Ward of the New York Division, announced that several co-conspirators were indicted on conspiracy and drug possession charges for...