DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
3665 Results - Showing 1471 to 1480
PRESS RELEASE

Large scale narcotics pill manufacturing operation dismantled in a residential building in the Bronx

NEW YORK – U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, and New York City Police Commissioner Dermot F. Shea announced the arrests of two individuals in connection with an alleged narcotics pill production and distribution...
PRESS RELEASE

Providence man sentenced to 72 months for trafficking fentanyl, heroin, cocaine

PROVIDENCE, RI – A Providence man found to be in possession of more than 384 grams of fentanyl, nearly 2,000 grams of heroin, and more than 2,260 grams of cocaine, and who was expecting to take possession of six kilograms of fentanyl before it was intercepted by law enforcement, was...
PRESS RELEASE

Syracuse Man Pleads Guilty to Heroin, Fentanyl, Cocaine Conspiracy

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Isidro De Los Santos, 33, of Syracuse pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of heroin, fentanyl, acetyl fentanyl, and cocaine, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, John B. DeVito, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field...
PRESS RELEASE

Buffalo man accused of selling drugs that led to a fatal overdose and two non-fatal overdoses

BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 14-count superseding indictment charging Kalijah Long, 36, of Buffalo, NY, with possession with intent to distribute, and...
PRESS RELEASE

Niagara Falls man indicted on drug, gun charges

BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Verquan Jackson, 32, of Niagara Falls, New York, with attempted possession with intent to distribute...
PRESS RELEASE

Historic law enforcement operation dismantles largest drug trafficking network in Rochester

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that nine defendants were arrested and charged in a criminal complaint for their roles in a large and long standing illegal narcotics ring operating in...
PRESS RELEASE

Arthur Ranney sentenced to 97 months in prison following conviction for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine

BURLINGTON, Vt. – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that on June 8, 2020, United States District Judge William K. Sessions III sentenced Arthur Ranney to 97 months in prison following...
PRESS RELEASE

Drug trafficking organization leader sentenced to 10 years in prison

PROVIDENCE, RI – The admitted leader of a drug trafficking organization that distributed dozens of kilograms of fentanyl and cocaine in New England was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in federal prison. Ramon Delossantos, 27, a Dominican national who lived in Cumberland at the time of his arrest in October...
PRESS RELEASE

Lancaster man sentenced for role in heroin conspiracy

BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kevin Hinca, 28, of Lancaster, New York, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute heroin, was sentenced to serve 32 months in prison by...
PRESS RELEASE

Rochester man pleads guilty to illegally possessing a firearm and selling cocaine

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Miguel Gonzalez-Adams, 40, of Rochester, New York, pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa to possessing cocaine with intent to distribute and...