NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig announced a Trenton, New Jersey woman today admitted distributing fentanyl that caused the death of a Monmouth county woman...

CHICAGO — Special Agent in Charge Robert J. Bell, Drug Enforcement Administration-Chicago Division and John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois announced that two suburban Chicago physicians have been indicted on federal criminal charges for allegedly prescribing opioids to individuals who lacked a legitimate...

FRESNO, Calif. — A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Jose Jesus Torres Garcia, 30, of Fresno, charging him with possessing fentanyl with intent to distribute it and possessing a firearm in furtherance of that drug trafficking offense, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug Enforcement...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A federal jury in Tallahassee has convicted Daniel Gutierrez, 37, of San Luis, Arizona of possession of methamphetamine and fentanyl with the intent to distribute. The guilty verdict, returned yesterday at the conclusion of a three-day trial, was announced by Jason R. Coody, Acting United States Attorney...

NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig announced a former New Jersey resident today admitted conspiring to distribute a fentanyl analogue. Darryl Hinkson, 46, formerly of...

NEW YORK – An indictment charges three individuals with Operating as a Major Trafficker following the seizure of nearly 40 pounds of alleged heroin and fentanyl from a large-scale narcotics packaging operation in the Morris Heights neighborhood of the Bronx. The organization combined heroin and fentanyl for sale in New...

Just this past week, three people in Arlington, Virginia overdosed on fentanyl-laced drugs – resulting in two deaths and one in critical condition. Like the majority of the overdose deaths recorded this past year, these overdoses involved suspected, counterfeit prescription pills laced with the deadly synthetic opioid, fentanyl. Throughout the...

CONCORD, NH – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Darius Augusto Guzman Ruiz, 30, of Manchester, was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison for participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy. According to court...

TRENTON, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig announced a California man was convicted today of conspiracy and manufacturing, distributing, and possessing with intent to manufacture and...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sergey Tkachuk, 28, of North Highlands, California was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to five years in prison for distribution of fentanyl, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Wade R. Shannon and Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court...