United States Drug Enforcement Administration

WASHINGTON - - DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart today announced that MANSSOR ARBABSIAR, a/k/a “Mansour Arbabsiar,” was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 25 years in prison for participating in a plot to murder the SaudiArabian Ambassador to the U.S., while the Ambassador was in the U.S. ARBABSIAR, a...

(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...

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...

WASHINGTON - DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart and other federal officials today announced the extradition of ALFONSO PORTILLO, the former President of Guatemala, who is charged with conspiring to launder millions of dollars he embezzled from the Government of Guatemala through bank accounts located in the United States. Portillo arrived...

WASHINGTON - DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced that Richard Ammar Chichakli, an associate of the convicted international arms dealer Viktor Bout, was extradited from Australia on charges that he allegedly conspired with Bout and...

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...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Yesterday, Freddy Mauricio Tellez-Buitrago and Adriana Gonzalez-Marquez were arraigned at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, on obstruction of justice charges for stealing sensitive and confidential United States law enforcement information concerning prosecutions in the Eastern District of New York and selling that information to a...

WASHINGTON - Today the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) made the synthetic cannabinoids UR-144, XLR11, and AKB48 Schedule I, illegal drugs under the Controlled Substances (CSA) for the next two years. These cannabinoids areoften seen in so-called “fake pot” products that are falsely marketed and sold as “herbal incense” or...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division Office of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Richard S. Hartunian, the United States Attorney of the Northern District of New York, announced that a federal jury has convicted Rosario (age 48) of East Syracuse...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - John Venizelos, also known as “John V,” “Big Man” and “John from Staten Island,” an alleged associate of the Bonanno organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra, pled guilty earlier today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Joan M. Azrack at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn to drug trafficking...