DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Federal And Local Law Enforcement Execute Multiple Warrants

ORLANDO, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field (MFD), and Jerry Demings, Sheriff, Orange County Sheriff's (OCSO), announced the results of an eight month long joint investigation involving a heroin trafficking organization in the Orange County area. Yesterday, DEA and OSCO executed fourteen...
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Former Philadelphia Police Officer Convicted Of Corruption

PHILADELPHIA - A federal jury, yesterday, found 52-year old Rafael Cordero, a 23-year veteran of the Philadelphia Police force, guilty of interfering with the federal drug investigation of the Christian Serrano/Edwin Medina Drug Trafficking ("DTOs"). Cordero provided sensitive law enforcement information about drug investigations to his half-brother, David Garcia, a...
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Bahamian National Arrested After Boat Capsizes And Marijuana Bales Wash Ashore

MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security (ICE-HSI), announce the arrest of Quinton Mitchell...
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Thirteen Defendants Plead Guilty To Drug Trafficking Charges

MIAMI, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC), U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division;Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Hugo J. Barrera, SAC, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and (ATF), Miami Field Office; and Alysa D. Erichs, SAC, U.S. Immigration and...
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Delaware Doctor Charged With Illegally Selling Controlled Substances On The Silk Road Drug Marketplace

ORLANDO, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC) Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field (MFD), David Dongilli, SAC, DEA, Philadelphia Field (PFD), and A. Lee Bentley, III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announce the arrest and unsealing of a criminal complaint charging Dr. Olivia...
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Caribbean Narcotics Traffickers Found Guilty By A Federal Jury

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 today that a federal jury found Yugool (61, Guyana) and Desmond (54, Guyana) guilty of two counts of...
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Two Virgin Islands Residents Indicted On Drug Trafficking Charges

NOV 20 (WEST PALM BEACH, FL) - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC), Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division; Vito S. Guarino, SAC, DEA, Caribbean Division; and Angel M. Melendez, SAC, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security (ICE-HSI), San Juan and U.S. Virgin Islands; Wifredo A. Ferrer, United...
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Ocala Man Pleads Guilty To Federal Drug, Firearm And Theft Charges

OCALA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced today that William Deboris Gordon, (41, Ocala) pleaded guilty to charges of attempted possession of five kilograms or...
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DEA And Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announce Charges Against Senior South American Counterterrorism Figure For Attempting To Support Hezbollah

MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC) Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York today announced the unsealing of a Superseding Indictment against Dino Bouterse, a citizen of Suriname who held himself out as Commander...
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Lakeland Man Found Guilty Of Trafficking In Methamphetamine

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 Ricky (Lakeland) guilty of distribution of methamphetamine and possession with intent to...