United States Drug Enforcement Administration

(BUFFALO, N.Y.) - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) New York Division, announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging eight defendants with conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute...

(LOS ANGELES) - David J. Downing, Special Agent in Charge of the Los Angeles Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the extradition of Filippo Magni, who is charged, along with co-defendant...

(LOS ANGELES) - A former Los Angeles Police Department officer whose garage explosion revealed the makeshift lab where he used butane to extract hash oil containing tetrahydrocannabinol, or “THC,” from marijuana plants, was sentenced to five years in federal prison. Joseph Jay Spadafore, 64, of Menifee was sentenced this morning...

(BUFFALO, NY) - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) New York Division, announced that Maria Guadalupe Martinez-Plascencia, 47, and Claudia Anel Cuevas-Sandoval, 37, both of Guadalajara, Mexico, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with...

(SYRACUSE, N.Y.) - Jeffrey Rivera, 34, of Utica, New York, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine. The announcement was made by the United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in...

(BROOKLYN, NY) - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Richard Jacobellis pleaded guilty to distributing heroin, further admitting that he distributed heroin that resulted in the death of 20-year-old Nicholas Weber in 2016 and serious bodily injury to Frances Theiling in 2015. As part of his guilty...

(BUFFALO, NY) - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) New York Division, announced that a federal grand jury has returned a 16-count indictment charging Tyrone Green, 24, and Brennen Bryant, Jr., 25, both of Buffalo...

(BUFFALO, NY) - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) New York Division, announced that Corey Bradberry, Jr., 35, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to conspiracy to possess with...

(BUFFALO, NY) - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) New York Division, announced that Raymond Hopson, 35, of Tonawanda, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 28...

(BUFFALO, NY) - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) New York Division, announced that Larry Smith, Jr., 39, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to possession with...