United States Drug Enforcement Administration

December 04, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Louisville physician was charged today, by a federal grand jury, with multiple counts of unlawful distribution of controlled substances, healthcare fraud and money laundering. The charges were announced by David J. Hale, United States Attorney for...

November 21, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury charged Kim Mulder, the owner and CEO of Kentwood Pharmacy, with a Superseding Indictment charging conspiracy to misbrand drugs and conspiracy to create...

NEWARK, N.J. - Two defendants have admitted their roles in one of the nation’s largest and longest running stolen identity refund fraud schemes ever identified, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today. The scheme caused more than 8,000 fraudulent U.S. income tax returns to be filed, which sought more than...

November 15, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - James D. Orr, 76, and Eugene A. Biegert, 69, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Thomas N. VerHage, 68, of Kentwood, Michigan were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff to substantial fines following their guilty...

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) New Jersey Division announced special agents of the DEA and FBI arrested a pharmacist early this morning in Jersey City, N.J., on federal charges alleging he assembled equipment for an illegal drug lab. Jordan Gonzalez...

November 05, 2013 Contact: Public Information Officer Number: (313) 234-4310 COLUMBUS, Ohio - A U.S. District Court jury convicted Jaime Ruiz-Montes, 43, of Las Vegas, Nevada for his role in a heroin trafficking organization operating in central Ohio. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio...

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, announced that this past weekend’s National Prescription Take Back Day resulted in the collection and destruction of almost 15,000 pounds, or 7.5 tons, of expired, unused, and unwanted prescriptions throughout New Jersey...

NEW YORK - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced charges against nine individuals - Paul Wiseberg, Robert Kalaba, Gerald Wiseberg, Stephanie Tomasini, Lana...

WEST TRENTON, N.J. - The New Jersey State Police Crime Suppression South Unit and the Drug Enforcement (DEA) arrested nine people in connection with an international drug ring that was based in Jamaica and operated in New Jersey and California, supplying drugs across the United States. Members of this international...

NEW YORK - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Rawson Edward Watson, a citizen of the United Kingdom, pled guilty today in Manhattan...