United States Drug Enforcement Administration

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division, announced that Jesus Rojas, 32, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, cocaine and crack cocaine before U.S. District...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division, announced today that four defendants pleaded guilty in connection with a large drug trafficking organization operating out of Lockport, NY: Ramone Westbrook, 35, of Niagara Falls...

WASHINGTON - The Drug Enforcement Administration today announced the issuance of an Immediate Suspension Order served on Morris and Dickson Company, a wholesale pharmaceutical distributor, located in Shreveport, Louisiana. Morris and Dickson Company has been the subject of a DEA investigation that alleges that this distribution center failed to properly...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Andres Lopez Elorez was arraigned this afternoon in federal court in Brooklyn before United States Magistrate Judge Marilyn Go on an indictment charging him with conspiring to import and distribute heroin into the United States. The defendant was arrested in Spain on a provisional arrest warrant issued...

NEW ORLEANS - An indictment was unsealed today against Dr. Wayne Jerome Celestine, age 57, a physician who practices in Gretna, Louisiana and resides in the New Orleans area, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans. On Monday, April 30...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Thomas A. Burnell, age 36, of Plattsburgh, New York, pleaded guilty today to selling heroin mixed with fentanyl that caused the death of a customer. Burnell separately pleaded guilty today to possessing a weapon while incarcerated as a federal inmate at the Clinton County Jail. The announcement...

NEW YORK - Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division, announced that one of the leaders of the violent Bronx gang known as “18 Park,” Marquis Wright was sentenced...

NEW ORLEANS, La. - After collecting more than 9 million (4,500 tons) of expired, unused and unwanted prescription medications at 14 previous events over the past 8 years, the Drug Enforcement Administration and its national, tribal, and community partners will hold the 15th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day across the...

NEW YORK - After collecting more than 9 million (4,500 tons) of expired, unused and unwanted prescription medications at 14 previous events over the past eight years, the Drug Enforcement Administration and its national, tribal, and community partners will hold the 15th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day across the country...

BROOKLYN, NY - Daniel Rendon-Herrera, also known as “Don Mario,” will be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Viktor V. Pohorelsky at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn on charges of leading a continuing criminal enterprise. In May 2009, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets...