United States Drug Enforcement Administration

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced that Diana Williamson, a doctor who supplied an oxycodone trafficking organization with fake...

MANHATTAN - - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Field Division and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the extradition of Horst Walther Overdick-Mejia from Guatemala. Overdick-Mejia was charged in January 2012 with...

DENVER - Barbra M. Roach, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Denver Field Division, Scott W. Storey, District Attorney for the Colorado First Judicial District, and Ted Mink, Sheriff of Jefferson County, Colorado announce the dismantlement of an interstate methamphetamine and cocaine smuggling enterprise operating in Colorado, Arizona, and...

ALBANY, N.Y. - Eric Canori, 33, of Saratoga Springs, New York, was sentenced yesterday, November 27, 2012 by Chief United States District Court Judge Gary L. Sharpe, in Albany to 30 months of imprisonment for his role in a marijuana distribution conspiracy, announced Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - - U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Brian R. Crowell, New York Field Division and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced that Daniel C. Gillick, 62, a physician residing in Youngstown, N.Y., and Christine D. Guilfoyle, 27, also of Youngstown, were arrested and charged...

BROOKLYN, NY - The alleged leader of an ethnic-Albanian organized crime syndicate, Arif Kurti, also known as “the Bear,” “Arty,” and “Nino,” was extradited from Albania to the United States on Friday, November 16, 2012, and will be arraigned later today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Cheryl L. Pollak at the...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today in Bogota, Colombia, Freddy Mauricio Tellez-Buitrago and Adriana Gonzalez-Marquez were arrested for obstructing justice by selling sensitive and confidential United States law enforcement information to a narcotics trafficker concerning prosecutions in the Eastern District of New York. Tellez-Buitrago is employed as an administrative services assistant...

LONG ISLAND, N.Y. - Frank Telang, a Long Island doctor, pleaded guilty today to illegally distributing oxycodone, a highly addictive prescription pain killer, and income tax evasion. Telang entered his plea before United States District Judge Joseph F. Bianco at the United States Courthouse located in Central Islip, New York...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Alleged Mexican drug kingpin Luis Rodriguez-Olivera was extradited from Mexico to the United States yesterday and will be arraigned later today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Roanne L. Mann at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn on charges contained in a second superseding indictment returned on May 22, 2009...

DENVER - The Drug Enforcement Administration is warning the public about criminals posing as DEA special agents or other law enforcement personnel as part of an international extortion scheme. This criminal activity has occurred in the Rocky Mountain region in the past, but is now occurring with much more frequency...