United States Drug Enforcement Administration

WASHINGTON - A member of the Honduran National Congress faces U.S. charges for drug trafficking, weapons and conspiracy thanks to a DEA-led international drug investigation, federal law enforcement officials announced today. Honduran Congressman Fredy Renan Najera Montoya has been charged in Manhattan federal court with conspiring to import cocaine into...

WASHINGTON - The Drug Enforcement Administration is streamlining the application process for researchers who study or wish to study Schedule I substances not currently approved for medical use. Schedule I drugs are defined as drugs, substances, or chemicals with no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse, such...

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, Michael E. McMahon, the District Attorney for Richmond County, James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of...

MINEOLA, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Division of the DEA and Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas announced today that 17 alleged members and associates of the MS-(Mara Salvatrucha) gang have been indicted by a grand jury on various charges of murder, conspiracy...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Special Agent-in-Charge James J. Hunt of DEA’s New York Division and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced yesterday that a federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment charging Jaron Ruth, 25, of Buffalo, N.Y., with the discharge of a firearm causing death; possession of a firearm...

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, and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police (“NYPD”), announced additional...

WASHINGTON - China’s Ministry of Public Security last week announced scheduling controls on two fentanyl precursor chemicals - NPP and 4ANPP, substances that can be used to make illicit drugs. The scheduling controls will take effect on February 1, 2018 and is the result of the ongoing collaboration between the...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn New York, Salvador Jimenez Uribe, also known as “Salvador Uribe Jimenez,” an international narcotics distributor and money launderer, was sentenced by United States District Judge Raymond J. Dearie to 20 years’ imprisonment for narcotics and money laundering charges, including...

NEW YORK - Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Darcel D. Clark, the Bronx County District Attorney; Ashan M. Benedict, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and (ATF); James...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A second superseding indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging medical doctor Martin Tesher with unlawfully prescribing oxycodone and fentanyl to a patient, Nicholas Benedetto, without legitimate medical purpose, which resulted in Benedetto’s overdose death on March 5, 2016 in Staten Island. Dr. Tesher...