DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Former Governor Of Mexican State Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To 131 Months In Prison For Money Laundering In Connection With Narcotics Bribes

MANHATTAN - - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that Mario Villanueva Madrid, the former governor of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court. Villanueva Madrid received a sentence of 131 months in prison for conspiring...
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Extradition Of Felix Trujillo-Manrique From Colombia On Heroin Trafficking Charges

MANHATTAN - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (“DEA”) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that Felix Trujillo-Manrique was extradited yesterday from Colombia for allegedly conspiring to import heroin...
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces The Arrests Of Two Rikers Island Correction Officers For Marijuana Dealing

MANHATTAN - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Rose Gill Hearn, the Commissioner of the New York City Department of (“DOI”), and Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), today announced...
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Schuyler County Man Convicted Of Drug Trafficking And Firearms Charges

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced yesterday that John Anthony Barton, 33, of Dix, N.Y., was convicted of conspiracy to manufacture 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, possession...
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Surveillance Leads To Seizure Of $8 Million Worth Of Heroin

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly and Joseph A. D’Amico, Superintendent of the New York State Police announced the discovery...
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Scarsdale Woman Indicted For Manufacturing Marijuana

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - An indictment was filed this afternoon in federal court in the Eastern District of New York charging Andrea Sanderlin of Scarsdale, New York, with manufacturing and possessing marijuana with intent to distribute it and maintaining a drug-involved premise. Sanderlin, 45, was arrested on May 20, 2013, when...
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Canadian Drug Kingpin With Ties To The Rizutto And Bonanno Crime Families, The Hells Angels And The Mexican Sinaloa Cartel Pleads Guilty To Narcotics Trafficking Crimes Carrying Sentence Of 20 Years To Life And $1 Billion In Forfeiture

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - - Jimmy Cournoyer, the leader of a massive international drug trafficking enterprise with ties to La Cosa Nostra, the Hells Angels and the notorious Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico, pled guilty earlier today before U.S. District Judge Raymond J. Dearie at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn to eleven...
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Correction Officer Convicted Of Drug Possession, Conspiracy, Bribery And Official Misconduct

(MANHATTAN, N.Y.) - Robert Whitfield, a Correction Officer with the New York City Department of Correction, was convicted yesterday, May 30 on charges of drug possession, conspiracy, bribery and official misconduct. The announcement was made by Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division, United States...
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30 Charged In Federal Drug Indictments

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division Office of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Richard S. Hartunian, the United States Attorney of the Northern District of New York and Joseph A. D'Amico, New York State Police Superintendent announces that two indictments...
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Traffic Safety Road Check Led To Arrest Of Local Man And Seizure Of Twelve Pounds Of Marijuana

OTSEGO, N.Y. - - A Milford man was arrested on May 16, 2013 for possessing over twelve pounds of marijuana valued at over $36,000 following a traffic safety road check arrest and the execution of a search warrant at his residence. On May 16th, Deputies Frank Koren, Jr, Craig Morrison...