CAMDEN, N.J. - The United States Drug Enforcement Administration today announced that southern New Jersey has been designated as part of a comprehensive law enforcement, diversion control, and prevention effort called the “360 Strategy” to help cities dealing with the heroin and prescription drug abuse epidemic, and its associated violent...

SAN FRANCISCO - Peyton Erwin Eidson pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco today to aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to distribute marijuana, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Special Agent in Charge Matthew Perlman of the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security (DSS) San Francisco Field Office, and...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn New York, Salvador Jimenez Uribe, also known as “Salvador Uribe Jimenez,” an international narcotics distributor and money launderer, was sentenced by United States District Judge Raymond J. Dearie to 20 years’ imprisonment for narcotics and money laundering charges, including...

WASHINGTON - China’s Ministry of Public Security last week announced scheduling controls on two fentanyl precursor chemicals - NPP and 4ANPP, substances that can be used to make illicit drugs. The scheduling controls will take effect on February 1, 2018 and is the result of the ongoing collaboration between the...

OMAHA, Neb. - Matt Barden, Associate Special Agent in Charge of the Omaha District Office, today announced that fentanyl and heroin dealer Cordero R. Seals, 29, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for distributing heroin laced with fentanyl causing a near-death overdose. Seals received...

NEW YORK - Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Darcel D. Clark, the Bronx County District Attorney; Ashan M. Benedict, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and (ATF); James...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment today against Curtis Dale Sawyer, 52, and Ann Marie Vance, 49, both of Chico, charging them with conspiring to possess and possessing methamphetamine for distribution, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A second superseding indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging medical doctor Martin Tesher with unlawfully prescribing oxycodone and fentanyl to a patient, Nicholas Benedetto, without legitimate medical purpose, which resulted in Benedetto’s overdose death on March 5, 2016 in Staten Island. Dr. Tesher...

NEW ORLEANS - Cornell Pendleton, age 51, of the Gentilly neighborhood in New Orleans, was sentenced today for his role in laundering money on behalf of heroin dealers in the New Orleans area, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A...

SHREVEPORT, La. - A Texas man was sentenced last week to 20 years in prison for conspiring to transport methamphetamine and cocaine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley and Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook. Erasmo Aviles Jr., 35, of Spring, Texas, was...