DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Career Offender Sentenced to 17 Years on Drug Charges

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Chief U. S. District Judge Martin Reidinger handed down a lengthy sentence today to a Hendersonville, N.C., man convicted of trafficking cocaine, fentanyl, prescription pills and other narcotics in and around Henderson County, announced Acting U.S. Attorney William T. Stetzer. On December 9, 2020, Butler pleaded guilty...
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N.C. Woman Sentenced to 10 Years for Trafficking Meth, Fentanyl and Other Narcotics

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Today, Chief U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced Lillian Elaine Brady, 53, Cherokee, N.C., to 10 years in prison and five years of supervised release for trafficking methamphetamine, fentanyl and other narcotics, announced William T. Stetzer, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Robert...
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Death by Fentanyl Overdose Leads to Indictment of Two Men on Federal Drug Charges

SAVANNAH, GA - Two Bryan County men face up to life in prison after another man’s fatal fentanyl overdose. Javarus McKinney, a/k/a “Jody,” 32, of Richmond Hill, Ga., is charged with Distribution of Fentanyl Resulting in Death, Possession with Intent to Distribute Fentanyl, and Possession with Intent to Distribute Fentanyl...
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Department of Justice and DEA Announce Seizures of Historic Amounts of Deadly Fentanyl-Laced Fake Pills in Public Safety Surge to Protect U.S. Communities

GREENSBORO - Yesterday, at a press conference, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco and DEA Administrator Anne Milgram announced a significant law enforcement surge to protect American communities from the flood of fentanyl and fentanyl-laced pills across the United States. Illicit fentanyl, a synthetic opioid found in most of the...
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Department of Justice and DEA Announce Seizures of Historic Amounts of Deadly Fentanyl-Laced Fake Pills in Public Safety Surge to Protect U.S. Communities

CHARLOTTE - Yesterday, at a press conference, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco and DEA Administrator Anne Milgram announced a significant law enforcement surge to protect American communities from the flood of fentanyl and fentanyl-laced pills across the United States. Illicit fentanyl, a synthetic opioid found in most of the...
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Fentanyl Overdose Death Leads to indictment of Two on Federal Drug Charges

SAVANNAH, GA: Two Bryan County men face up to life in prison after another man’s fatal fentanyl overdose. Javarus McKinney, a/k/a “Jody,” 32, of Richmond Hill, Ga., is charged with Distribution of Fentanyl Resulting in Death, Possession with Intent to Distribute Fentanyl, and Possession with Intent to Distribute Fentanyl Near...
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Joint Law Enforcement Efforts Result in Lengthy Sentences

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Acting U.S. Attorney William T. Stetzer announced today that five individuals have been sentenced to date on drug and gun charges as a result of proactive investigations led by federal and local law enforcement in Union County. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Bureau of Alcohol...
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Heroin, fentanyl trafficking targeted in Operation Jump Start, with seven indicted on federal charges

BRUNSWICK, Ga. -- Seven people have been charged in a drug trafficking conspiracy in an indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court. “The dangerous substance Fentanyl is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin. The combination of these deadly substances has...
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Federal jury convicts Bryson City woman of distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death

Asheville, N.C. – A federal jury in Asheville has convicted Shannon White, 43, of Bryson City, N.C. for the distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death, announced Robert J. Murphy, the Special Agent in Charge Robert J. Murphy of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Atlanta Field Division, which...
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Law enforcement arrest enrolled member of Easter Band of Cherokee Indians charged with dealing fentanyl that resulted in an overdose death

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – A federal grand jury sitting in Charlotte returned a criminal bill of indictment on Feb. 20, 2020, charging Shannon White, 42, an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and resident of the Cherokee Indian Reservation, with distributing fentanyl that resulted in an overdose death...