Federal, State Agencies and HealthCare Providers meet in Great Falls for Community Outreach and Education GREAT FALLS, Mont. - In an effort to combat the growing epidemic of prescription drug and heroin abuse, the FBI and DEA have released Chasing the Dragon: The Life of an Opiate Addict, a documentary...

FEB 23 - 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 Jevaughn Watson, 23, of Bridgeport, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to...

ATLANTA - Kevin Bristol Patterson, 35, of Blairsville, Georgia, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Eleanor L. Ross to 18 years and four months in federal prison to be followed by five years of supervised release, and a $600 special assessment. Patterson’s sentence was a result of his role...

ATLANTA - Dr. Romie Earl Roland has been sentenced to ten years and ten months for conspiring to distribute Schedule II controlled substances by illegally prescribing prescription painkillers for no legitimate medical purpose. Also indicted and sentenced for their respective roles in the operation of the pain clinic were seven...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police (NYPD), today announced the...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - - An indictment and two complaints were unsealed today in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging nine defendants with conspiring to distribute heroin and/or oxycodone in Staten Island, New York. Eight defendants were arrested earlier today in Staten Island and...

SHREVEPORT, La. - A Texas man was sentenced Tuesday to more than eight and a half years in prison for distribution of methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finely. David Wayne Carlisle, 41, of Marshall, Texas, was...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Robert L. Capers, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York announced today the arrests of nine defendants for their role in an international steroid distribution ring. The charges against the...

FEB 22 - PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Brandon Lancaster, 21, of Norridgewock, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to distributing oxycodone. According to court...

FEB 22 - 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, today announced that Isaiah Hart, 21, of Brooklyn, N.Y., pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Michael...