DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Two Alleged International Narcotics Traffickers Defendants Allegedly Conspired To Transport Cocaine Worth $30 Million In A U.S. Aircraft.

NEWARK - Robert G. Koval, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Rawson Edward Watson, a citizen of the United Kingdom, and Nicolas Epskamp, a...
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Monmouth County, N.J., Doctor Pleads Guilty To Oxycodone Distribution And Conspiracy

TRENTON, N.J. - Robert G. Koval, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a doctor who allegedly wrote illegal prescriptions for oxycodone, today admitted to participating in...
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Longshoreman Sentenced To 180 Months For Conspiracy To Distribute Cocaine

NEWARK, N.J. - Robert G. Koval, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced a longshoreman was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court to180 months in prison for his role in an international drug smuggling conspiracy which led to the seizure of...
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Newark Man Sentenced To More Than 24 Years In Prison For Role In Heroin Distribution Conspiracy

NEWARK, N.J. - Robert G. Koval, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Newark man who took part in a conspiracy to distribute more than...
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US Attorney’s Office Announces “The Right Prescription For New Jersey”Federal, State Agencies And Non-Profits Come Together To Prevent Prescription Drug Abuse

NEWARK, N.J.- - The United States Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey, today launched the Right Prescription for New Jersey prescription drug abuse prevention initiative, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. The initiative is a collaboration of federal, state, and non-profit organizations and agencies, including the Drug Enforcement (DEA) New...
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Wayne Psychiatrist Pleads Guilty To Illegally Selling Oxycodone Prescriptions To Patients

NEWARK - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced Dr. Priscilla Ilem admitted today to illegally selling oxycodone prescriptions from her Wayne office. Ilem, 85...
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Attorney General Chiesa Announces New Jersey Prescription Monitoring Program

NEWARK, N.J. - -Between November 3 and December 7, 2011, a single patient obtained a four-month supply of oxycodone and methadone by presenting prescriptions, now believed to be forged, to three New Jersey pharmacies on a total of 14 occasions. The patient circumvented the safeguards that pharmacies and insurance carriers...
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Five Men Convicted For Operating West New York, N.J., Heroin Mill

NEWARK, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced Joan Manuel Pina Dominguez, 20, a/k/a “Christian Colon,” admitted conspiring with others to operate...
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Texas Syndicate Members In San Antonio Indicted On Racketeering Charges

Seventeen San Antonio-based members of the Texas (TS) have been charged by federal grand jury indictment with conspiring to violate the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt (RICO) statute. The announcement was made today by United States Attorney Robert Pitman, DEA Special Agent in Charge Javier Pena, U.S. Marshal Robert Almonte, ATF Special...
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Seven Arrested In Heroin Drug Distribution Network

NEWARK, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Theodore J. Romankow, the Prosecutor for the Union County Prosecutor’s Office, announced the arrests of seven defendants and the seizure of approximately 250 grams of heroin. A joint...