NEWARK, N.J. - The United States filed a civil forfeiture complaint today seeking to forfeit $1,742,289, previously seized from cellular phone wholesale company Cellular Next LLC, which allegedly represents narcotics proceeds laundered through the Black Market Peso (BMPE), U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. According to the complaint filed today...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Sam Eylicio, Jr., 37, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to participating in a cocaine base trafficking conspiracy. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Eylicio will be sentenced to 125 months in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release. Eylicio was one of...

June 23, 2014 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 COVINGTON, Ky. - A Covington, Ky., man admitted in federal court today he sold heroin that resulted in a death. Timothy Tingle-Brown, 29, pleaded guilty today to causing the death of John Baum by distributing heroin before U.S. District Court...

BOSTON - Twenty-two Springfield men were charged today in federal and state court with either distributing a controlled substance or unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition. Separate federal indictments alleging the distribution of crack cocaine were returned against Alberto Correa-Martinez, 27, andStephen Tavernier 28 SheradTherrien, 24; David Faust, 26; Richard...

ATLANTA - Jason Cole Votrobek and Roland Rafael Castellanos, owners of the “Atlanta Medical Group,” have been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison, respectively. Both Votrobek and Castellanos were convicted on March 26, 2014, after a month-long jury trial on federal drug and money laundering charges for owning and...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Michael Thompson, 35, of New Haven, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen...

PHOENIX - On June 18, 2014, the final defendant was sentenced in connection with Operation Clean Green - a multi-year investigation conducted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and Internal Revenue Service. Hector Raul Ortiz-Tarazon, Sr. and his son, Hector Francisco Ortiz, Jr. ran a drug trafficking (DTO) that shipped...

NEW YORK - Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, James J. Hunt, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton and Joseph A. D’amico, Superintendent of the New York State Police, announced the...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, following a two-week trial, a federal jury in Brooklyn, New York, returned a guilty verdict against former New York City Police Officer Jose Tejada on charges of armed robbery conspiracy and narcotics distribution conspiracy. Tejada was a 17-year veteran of the New York City Police...

NEW YORK - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, the Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Division of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, William V. Grady, the Dutchess County District Attorney and Adrian H. Anderson, the Dutchess County...