United States Drug Enforcement Administration

NEWARK, N.J. - - Robert G. Koval, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced an internal medicine specialist who wrote illegal prescriptions for oxycodone was convicted today...

LOS ANGELES - - A West Hollywood doctor surrendered to federal authorities this morning after being indicted last Friday on federal drug trafficking charges that allege he wrote more than 1,200 prescriptions for powerful painkillers after a federal order revoked his authority to prescribe those drugs. James William Eisenberg, 72...

DENVER - The Drug Enforcement (DEA), Western Colorado Drug Task Force, Two Rivers Drug Enforcement (TRIDENT), and the 21st Judicial District Attorney’s Office have completed the first phase of an investigation that has resulted in the seizure of significant amounts of methamphetamine and cocaine and a grand jury indictment of...

MAY 01 - LOS ANGELES - A federal investigation into a drug-trafficking organization led by two brothers who oversaw the distribution of cocaine to Italy and across the United States - as well as methamphetamine being trafficked across the U.S. - has led to the indictment of nine people, three...

SANTA ANA, Calif. - A woman who operated four medical clinics in Reseda and Northridge was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison for distributing the powerful and widely abused prescription narcotic oxycodone. Anush Davtyan, 53, of Encino, was sentenced by United States District Judge David O. Carter after...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A physician’s assistant who operated a mobile health clinic based in Hesperia was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison for distributing the powerful and widely abused prescription narcotic OxyContin following an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration. Christopher Henry Lister, 51, of Victorville, was sentenced...

SANTA ANA, Calif. - A San Clemente man pleaded guilty this morning to federal drug trafficking and tax offenses in relation to a string of nine illegal marijuana storefronts that generated millions of dollars in income. John Melvin Walker, also known as “Pops,” 56, of San Clemente, pleaded guilty to...

MARCH 20 - RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Federal and state authorities this morning arrested 10 defendants charged in a federal criminal complaint that accuses them of participating in a wide-ranging drug conspiracy that operated marijuana grow houses across Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. As part of the investigation led...

NEWARK, N.J. - A federal jury has convicted Paul W. Bergrin, 57, of Nutley, N.J., of all 23 counts on which he was tried, including conspiracy to murder a witness and other racketeering, cocaine and prostitution offenses. The verdict was announced today by New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman...

LOS ANGELES - A member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang and longtime leader of the Puente-13 criminal street gang was sentenced on March 6, 2013, to life in federal prison after being convicted last year on federal racketeering charges that included a brutal stabbing designed to deter victims from...