DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Former Top Leaders Of Venezuela’s Anti-Narcotics Agency Indicted For Trafficking Drugs To The United States

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - An indictment was unsealed today in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging Nestor Luis Reverol Torres, the former General Director of Venezuela’s La Oficina Nacional (ONA) and former commander of Venezuela’s National Guard, and Edylberto Jose Molina Molina, the former Sub-Director...
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Sanbornton Man Sentenced For Heroin And Fentanyl Distribution Conspiracy

CONCORD, N.H. - -Euris Daniel Paulino Guerrero, 24, a citizen of the Dominican Republic most recently residing in Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 100 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to a federal indictment charging him with two...
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Murderer Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To 34 Years In Prison

NEW YORK - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), announced the sentencing yesterday of James Smith, a/k/a “Heavy D,” to 34 years in...
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Investigation Of Fentanyl-Heroin Distribution Network Results In 24 Arrests

SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y. - Nearly four kilograms of heroin and fentanyl have been seized and 24 people arrested on drug possession and conspiracy charges as a result of an investigation into 10 fatal overdoses in Suffolk and Nassau Counties and nine drug overdoses in which individuals were revived with Narcan...
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Sanbornton Man Sentenced For Heroin And Fentanyl Distribution Conspiracy

CONCORD, N.H. - - Michael Smith, 35, of Sanbornton, New Hampshire, was sentenced to 96 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to a federal indictment charging him with eight counts of distribution and one count of conspiracy to...
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Nine Charged In Manhattan Federal Court With Trafficking Kilograms Of Cocaine Through The U.S. Mail System

NEW YORK - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection (USPIS), and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA)...
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Colombian Narcotics Kingpin Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To 35 Years In Prison For Massive Cocaine Conspiracy

NEW YORK - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Robert L. Capers, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Wifredo A. Ferrer, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announced that Daniel Barrera Barrera, also...
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Alleged Member Of Violent Robbery Crew Charged With Firearm-Related Murder

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, Nestor Marcelino Delacruz (Delacruz) was arraigned on an indictment before United States District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis in Brooklyn federal court. Delacruz is charged with the 2003 firearm-related homicide of Francisco De Orbe. The charges were announced by James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge...