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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New Jersey Doctor Sentenced To More Than 11 Years For Writing Illegal Oxycodone Prescriptions In Drug Distribution Conspiracy Also Ordered To Pay Approximately $630,000 In Fines And Forfeiture

NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's New Jersey Division, and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced an internal medicine specialist who wrote illegal prescriptions for oxycodone was sentenced today to 136 months in prison for...
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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...
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Operation Dial Tone Dismantles Heroin Trafficking Organization

OTSEGO COUNTY, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division, Otsego County Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr., Otsego County District Attorney John M. Muehl and Oneonta Police Department Chief Dennis R. Nayor announce the arrest of drug kingpin Edgar Joe...
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Probationary Buffalo Police Officer Arrested, Charged With Drug Charges

BUFFALO, N.Y - - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that James Hamilton, Jr., 29, of Buffalo, N.Y., was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to...
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Two Defendants Admit Roles In $65 Million Stolen Identity Income Tax Refund Fraud Scheme

NEWARK, N.J. - Two defendants have admitted their roles in one of the nation’s largest and longest running stolen identity refund fraud schemes ever identified, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today. The scheme caused more than 8,000 fraudulent U.S. income tax returns to be filed, which sought more than...
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Ten Indicted In Central New York Synthetic Marijuana Conspiracy

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division and Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York announced the indictment of 10 individuals in connection with a large synthetic marijuana distribution organization in Central New...
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Long Island Nurse Practitioner And Brooklyn Podiatrist Plead Guilty To Illegally Distributing Oxycodone

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Rools Deslouches, a Brentwood, New York, nurse practitioner, pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York to illegally distributing the highly addictive painkiller oxycodone to customers, whom the defendant knew were drug dealers and addicts, without performing any meaningful...