DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
2287 Results - Showing 1991 to 2000
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Long Island Doctor Convicted Of Conspiracy To Distribute Oxycodone And Distribution Of Oxycodone

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Yesterday, following three weeks of trial, a jury in federal court in Central Islip, New York, returned a verdict convicting Long Island doctor Leonard I. Stambler of Baldwin Harbor, New York, of conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and distribution of oxycodone, in connection with prescriptions that he provided...
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Health Care Center Nursing Supervisor Arrested And Charged With Selling Hydrocodone And Other Pain Killers

OCT 18 - BUFFALO, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul announced today that Catherine Vitello, 40, of Elma, N.Y., was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute...
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Drug Traffickers Used Staten Island Barber Shop To Sell Drugs And Oversee Gun Sales

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Brian Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Richmond County District Attorney Daniel M. Donovan, Jr., and New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly announced today the arrests and indictments of Anthony Lagala, JR., Adam Paone and Marat...
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Drug Kingpin Convicted Of Trafficking More Than $1 Million In Cocaine From Puerto Rico To New York: Narcotics Seized At Midtown Manhattan Hotel

NEW YORK - Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor and Brian R. Crowell, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division Special Agent in Charge announced the conviction by jury of Robert Adrian as a major narcotic trafficker under New York State's drug kingpin statute, which carries a...
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Fourteen Charged With Heroin And Cocaine Trafficking In The Bronx And Across The Hudson Valley

NEW YORK - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, Assistant Director-In-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of (FBI) and Joseph...
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Latin Kings’ Second Crown Convicted In Orange County

ORLANDO, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC), Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida, announced today that on September 27, 2013, Jose M. Perez, (Miami, 39) also known as “Goofy,” was found guilty of racketeering, conspiracy to commit racketeering, and directing...
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Colombian Drug Trafficker Pleads Guilty To Drug Trafficking Charges

SEP 26 (TAMPA, Fla.) - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC), Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced yesterday that Camilo Torres-Martinez, aka (41, Colombia), pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import into the United...
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Hudson County Corrections Officer And Other Alleged Members Of An Armed Robbery Crew That Impersonated Police Officers

(NEW YORK) - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Aaron Ford, the Special Agent in Charge of the Newark Office of the Federal Bureau of...
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California Women Convicted Of Smuggling Drugs On Airplanes To Tampa

SEP 24 (TAMPA, Fla.) - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC), Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced yesterday that a federal jury found Vanessa (39, El Cajon, California), Canetha (43, El Cajon, California)...
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Pasco County Pharmacist Sentenced For Illegally Distributing Pain Medications

TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC), Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces that United States District Judge Susan Bucklew today sentenced Edward Benjamin Alister (59, Pasco County) to four years...