DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
1999 Results - Showing 501 to 510
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Passaic Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Role in Cocaine Trafficking Conspiracy

NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig announced a Passaic, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his role in a...
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Lancaster Man Going to Prison for a Decade

BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joshua Levine, 24, of Lancaster, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to distribute heroin and fentanyl, was sentenced to serve 120 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Joseph M. Tripi and...
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Dunkirk Man Arrested, Facing Drug and Gun Charges After Police Find Loaded Uzi and Other Guns in his Residence

BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Christopher L. Torres, 35, of Dunkirk, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possessing with intent to distribute cocaine, maintaining a drug-involved premises, and possessing firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes. The charges carry a...
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“Operation Yo-Yo” Yields Arrests and Drug Seizures Across Two States

CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and Cape May County Prosecutor Jeffrey H. Sutherland announced the conclusion of "Operation Yo-Yo" a large scale narcotics investigation initiated by the DEA and Cape May County Prosecutor’s...
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Queens Pharmacy Owner Sentenced to 36 Months in Prison for Health Care Fraud and Narcotics Distribution

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Harris Hussnain, 41, from Queens, New York and the owner of a pharmacy in Queens, New York, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rachel P. Kovner to 36 months in prison for his participation in a health care...
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Passaic County Man Admits Distributing Fentanyl

NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig announced a Passaic County, New Jersey, man today admitted distributing fentanyl. Maurice Tisdale, 28, of Paterson, New Jersey, pleaded...
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Monmouth County Man Admits Possessing with Intent to Distribute More than 40 Grams of Fentanyl

TRENTON, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig announced a Monmouth County, New Jersey, man today admitted possessing with the intent to distribute more than 40 grams...
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Three People Charged in Interstate Gun Trafficking Conspiracy

NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Newark Division Craig B. Kailimai, and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig...
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Nurse Arrested for Stealing over 1,400 Vials of Fentanyl

MINEOLA, N.Y. – U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas and announced today that a former North Shore University Hospital nurse was arrested today for allegedly stealing 1,467 vials of fentanyl and 223 vials of midazolam between October and December...
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Brooklyn doctor pleads guilty to illegal distribution of narcotics

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Kesler Dalmacy, a medical doctor, pleaded guilty to illegal distribution of controlled substances. Dalmacy, who operated his medical practice out of an office in East Flatbush, prescribed narcotics to patients outside the course of his professional practice that lacked a...