SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Today, federal, state, and local authorities arrested 26 individuals, including “TMM General” Raul Ramos, and are looking for three others in connection with a heroin/cocaine trafficking operation in the San Antonio area announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.; DEA Special Agent-in-Charge Joseph M. Arabit...

TOLEDO, Ohio - Two Toledo men were criminally charged after DEA agents arrested them for distributing six kilograms of heroin. Ricardo Rivera, 40, was arrested after DEA agents observed him take a black duffel bag from 1443 Western Avenue in Toledo and place it in the trunk of a vehicle...

OMAHA, Neb. - - Darin Thimmesch, Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge of DEA’s Omaha District Office announced on May 18, 2017, that DEA had secured a prison sentenced for Daniel Perez-Heredia. Perez-Heredia, 29, a resident alien from Worthington, MN, was sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for conspiracy to...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - -On May 18, 2017, Assistant Special Agent in (ASAC) Troy Derby of the Kansas City District Office announced that two women, one from St. Charles, Missouri, and the other from Republic, Missouri, were sentenced in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute large...

ALBANY, N.Y. - - A jury voted today to convict William “True” Hilts, age 52, of Schenectady, New York, of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and heroin, and distribution of crack cocaine and heroin, following a four-day jury trial. The announcement was made by James J. Hunt, Special Agent in...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury indicted 23 individuals, 22 of whom are Bay Area residents, for their respective roles in a conspiracy to engage in an extensive drug trafficking network, announced U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin and United States Attorney Brian J...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - - Robert Ian Thatcher, 29, Maximillian Sams, 30, Dwayne Banks, 29, all of Elmira, New York, and Carlito Rios, Jr., 30, of Beaver Dams, New York, were each charged today with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, quantities of furanyl fentanyl and U-47700...

NEW ORLEANS, La. - A New Orleans man was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to participating in a heroin distribution conspiracy in the lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans. Corey Celestine, age...

LOS ANGELES - Capping a nearly three-year investigation, federal, state and local law enforcement authorities this morning took into custody a total of 21 members and associates of Mara Salvatrucha, a transnational criminal street gang commonly called MS-13 that was formed in Los Angeles about 30 years ago. Those arrested...

MAY 17 - BRIDGEPORT, 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 Darryck Norris, 23, of Bridgeport, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today...