NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced the unsealing of a criminal complaint against Shannon Christopher Ceasar, 43, a physician who practices in Metairie and resides in New Orleans. On Friday, July 22, 2016, Ceasar was arrested...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, Nestor Marcelino Delacruz (Delacruz) was arraigned on an indictment before United States District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis in Brooklyn federal court. Delacruz is charged with the 2003 firearm-related homicide of Francisco De Orbe. The charges were announced by James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge...

WASHINGTON - Hundreds of thousands of counterfeit prescription pills, many containing deadly amounts of fentanyl and fentanyl-related compounds, have made their way into the U.S. drug market, according to a DEA intelligence report released today. Law enforcement nationwide report higher fentanyl availability, seizures, and known overdose deaths than at any...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 38-year-old resident of Mission has been ordered to prison for 120 months following his conviction of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Jose Manuel Ochoa pleaded guilty...

BURLINGTON, Vt. - - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced federal criminal charges against eight individuals accused of making six different residences on a three-block stretch of...

BURLINGTON, Vt. - - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced federal criminal charges against Peggy Marcelino, 55, and William St. George, 57, both from Burlington. Marcelino is...

HARTFORD, Conn. - - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Hector Roman, 30, of New Britain, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford...