DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Twenty-Four Indicted In Oxycodone Trafficking And Health Care Fraud Scheme

MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Christopher B. Dennis, Special Agent in Charge, Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector (HHS-OIG), José A. Gonzalez, IRS Special Agent in Charge, Director James...
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More Than Two Dozen Boeing Employees Arrested In Drug Sting

PHILADELPHIA, PA - DEA and FBI agents today arrested employees and former employees of Boeing’s Ridley Park plant and one non-employee in a coordinated, long-term, undercover effort aimed at prescription drug abuse at the manufacturing plant, DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge Vito Guarino announced. Joining Acting SAC Guarino was...
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Leader Of Dover Oxycodone Distribution Ring Sentenced To 54 Months Of Imprisonment

WILMINGTON, DE - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, and Vito S. Guarino, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Philadelphia Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), announced that Michael Kyle Griffith was sentenced today to serve 54 months in prison for his leadership...
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Bucks County, Pennsylvania Doctor Sentenced For Running Northeast Philadelphia Pill Mill

PHILADELPHIA, PA - Christopher Vassalluzzo, D.O., 47, of New Hope, PA, was sentenced today to 34 months in prison for a conspiracy that illegally distributed millions of prescription controlled substance diet drugs. Vassalluzzo and others operated an office at 3000 Holme Avenue in Northeast Philadelphia that was, in fact, a...
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DEA And The Museum Of Science And Industry Open Powerful New Exhibit

MIAMI, FL. - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) traveling museum exhibit, Target America: Opening Eyes to the Damage Drugs Cause, has arrived in Tampa. Installed at the Museum of Science and (MOSI), the 10,000-square-foot exhibit opens today and runs through September 3, 2012. Target America explores the science behind illegal drug...
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Three High-Level Colombian Narcotics Traffickers Indicted

MIAMI, FL. - 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, John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Michael Shea, Acting Special Agent in...
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Colombian Bacrim Narco-Traffickers Indicted On Cocaine Conspiracy Charges

MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and Jay Bergman, Andean Regional Director, Drug Enforcement Administration, in conjunction with Viviane Morales Hoyos, Attorney General of Colombia, Director Oscar Naranjo...
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Palm Beach, Broward And Martin County Pill Mills And Pharmacies Are Shut Down

MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and Tony West, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division at the Department of Justice, announced the unsealing of a federal indictment...
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Thirteen Indicted For Airdropping Multi-Hundred Kilogram Quantities Of Cocaine In The Caribbean Sea And For Money Laundering Offenses

MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announce the unsealing of a July 15, 2011 indictment against 13 individuals on charges that they engaged in a narcotics trafficking...