United States Drug Enforcement Administration

NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the Police Department for the City of New (“NYPD”)...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Lamont Butcher, 42, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to serve 120 months in prison for his participation in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge James J...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jeremy Jorge, 21, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to distribution of fentanyl before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced that Carlos Javier Figueroa, a/k/a/ Javi, a/k/a Big Bro, 39, Roberto Figueroa, 42, Leitscha Poncedeleon, 28, and Orlando Yelder, 36, Jose...

LUBBOCK, Texas - Gregory Jerome Mitchell, a.k.a “Jimmy Jombo Kalu,” 33, was sentenced on January 19, 2018 by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 262 months in federal prison for distributing cocaine, announced Special Agent-in-Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the DEA and U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox...

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions travelled to the FBI Academy on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, on Friday, January 26, 2018, to deliver remarks to graduates of the Drug Enforcement Administration Basic Agent Trainee class. Attorney General Sessions was hosted by DEA’s Acting Administrator Robert Patterson and Training Division...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced that Todd E. Varney, 34, of Wellsville, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to manufacture, possess with intent to distribute, and...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, following a two-week trial, a federal jury in Brooklyn returned guilty verdicts against Ronald Williams on five counts, including murder-for-hire conspiracy, conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice murder, and conspiracy to distribute marijuana. Williams, a leader of a street gang in Brooklyn known as the...

NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James P. O’Neill, Police Commissioner of the City of New (“NYPD”), and George P. Beach...

NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James P. O’Neill, Police Commissioner of the City of New (“NYPD”), and announced the unsealing...