DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Two Sentenced For Roles In Trenton Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy

TRENTON, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced two Trenton men were both sentenced to over seven years in prison for conspiring to distribute over a kilogram of cocaine and 100 grams...
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Members Of Camden Drug Trafficking Ring Charged With Racketeering

TRENTON, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General for the State of New Jersey, announced that seven members of a major gun trafficking ring in Camden have been indicted on first-degree racketeering charges. The...
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Essex County Man Charged With Heroin Trafficking Conspiracy In Newark, New Jersey

NEWARK, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced that federal law enforcement authorities today took custody of the last of seven members of a drug trafficking organization that...
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Pennsylvania Couple Charged With Distributing Fake Oxycodone Pills Containing Heroin

NEWARK, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced s man and woman from Hazleton, Pennsylvania, were charged today with conspiring to distribute heroin pills that were made to...
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Man Admits Transporting Multiple Kilograms Of Heroin As Part Of A Cross-country Drug Distribution Conspiracy

TRENTON, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Bronx, New York, man pleaded guilty today for transporting 15 kilograms of heroin on Christmas Eve in 2014. Vionel...
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California Man Sentenced To 30 Months In Prison For Role In Heroin Distribution Scheme

NEWARK, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a California man who swallowed plastic bags containing approximately 600 grams of heroin and later admitted that he possessed the drug with...
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DEA Announces “360 Strategy” In Southern New Jersey To Address Heroin, Prescription Opioids, Violent Crime

CAMDEN, N.J. - The United States Drug Enforcement Administration today announced that southern New Jersey has been designated as part of a comprehensive law enforcement, diversion control, and prevention effort called the “360 Strategy” to help cities dealing with the heroin and prescription drug abuse epidemic, and its associated violent...