DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Colombian Drug Kingpin And Cohort Extradited In New York Heroin Trafficking Scheme Millions Of Dollars In Heroin Smuggled In Freight Containers

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly and Joseph A. D’Amico, Superintendent of the New York State Police, announced today the...
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Joint Drug Takedown Results In 61 Arrests

CLINTON COUNTY, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge Brian Crowell of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA) and Clinton County District Attorney Andrew J. Wylie announced today that a unified law enforcement drug investigation resulted in the filing of Grand Jury Indictments against 61 individuals during the current...
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Medical Professionals Performed Perfunctory Exams On Longshoremen And Filled Scripts For Narcotics In Elaborate Scheme To Rip Off Insurance Companies

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge Brian Crowell of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's New York (DEA), Richmond County District Attorney Daniel M. Donovan, Jr., New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, Commissioner Ronald Goldstock of the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, Chairman Robert Beloten of...
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Burlington Man To Serve Fourteen Years In Prison For Cocaine Conspiracy And Money Laundering

BURLINGTON, Vt. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont announced that on Monday, December 16, 2013, Ramell Holder, 36, of Burlington, Vermont, was sentenced to 168 months, or fourteen years...
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New York Man Sentenced To Over 12 Years For Heroin Trafficking

PORTLAND, Maine - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced today that Roger Burke, 31, of New York, New York, was sentenced yesterday by Judge D. Brock Hornby in U.S. District Court in...
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New Fairfield Resident Sentenced To More Than Five Years In Federal Prison For Trafficking Marijuana

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Nicholas Calamaras, 30, of New Fairfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in...
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Seven Individuals Indicted For Operating Million Dollar Marijuana Conspiracy

BOSTON - Seven individuals from central Massachusetts were charged today in U.S. District Court in Worcester for operating a million dollar marijuana conspiracy. John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Boston Field Division; United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz; Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in...
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Cambridge Pharmacy Robber Indicted

BURLINGTON, Vt. - - John J. Arvanits, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England and The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Friday, Russell John Thaxton, 48, of Morrisville, was presented in United States District Court for arraignment...
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Connecticut Pharmacies Pay $90,000 To Settle Allegations Under The Controlled Substances Act

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that HOWE'S PHARMACY of Milford and NELSON'S PHARMACY of Naugatuck have each entered into a civil settlement...
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Corrupt Colombian Government Employee And Criminal Defense Attorney Convicted In Obstruction Of Justice Case

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, Freddy Mauricio Tellez-Buitrago and Adriana Gonzalez-Marquez pled guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Cheryl M. Pollak at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, to obstruction of justice for stealing selling sensitive and confidential United States law enforcement information concerning prosecutions in the Eastern District of...