United States Drug Enforcement Administration

NEW YORK - Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Frank Mercedes was found guilty yesterday of murder in connection with a drug conspiracy, murder-for-hire, murder-for-hire conspiracy, and use of a firearm resulting in death, for his role in the...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Jose Matos, 29, and Jeremias Matos, 28, both of Syracuse, were arraigned on November 21, 2017 on an indictment charging them with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin and for possessing a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime. Jeremias Matos is also charged...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Four members and one associate of the West End Enterprise, a street gang based in three apartment complexes in Coney Island, New York, will be arraigned this afternoon in federal court in Brooklyn on an indictment charging them with crimes including murder in aid of racketeering, racketeering...

NEWARK, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Bergen County, New Jersey, woman today admitted using bogus litigation support companies to obtain millions of dollars...

BRONX, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA); Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark, James P. O’Neill, the Police Commissioner of the City of New (NYPD), George P. Beach II, the Superintendent of the New York State...

UTICA, N.Y. - Ryan Granger, a/k/a Bubba Granger, 38, formerly of Lewis County, New York, was sentenced to serve 108 months imprisonment for possessing pseudoephedrine knowing it would be used to manufacture methamphetamine, and for manufacturing and distributing methamphetamine, announced Acting United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, U.S. Drug Enforcement...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and New York State Police Superintendent George P. Beach II today announced the takedown of a ten-person drug trafficking ring that allegedly trafficked narcotics - including heroin and faux oxycodone pills which...

NEW YORK - Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division announced that Luis Diaz Jr. and Luis Javier Diaz were found guilty yesterday in Manhattan...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Sixteen defendants face federal charges related to methamphetamine production, announced James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Acting United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, and New York State Police Superintendent George P. Beach II. DEA Special Agent in Charge James Hunt stated, “Methamphetamine use...

TRENTON, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Trenton man today admitted his role in a conspiracy to distribute over a kilogram of cocaine and...