United States Drug Enforcement Administration

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge Mike Davis and United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas Conner Eldridge, announced that six defendants were sentenced this week as a result of drug- trafficking charges. The six individuals sentenced were originally charged in a...

MANHATTAN - James J. Hunt, Acting Special Agent in (Acting SAC) of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, and New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton, announced the indictment and arrest of five defendants for their roles in...

FORT SMITH, Ark. - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, Conner Eldridge announced that eleven individuals have been sentenced to a combined total of over 93 years in prison for drug-trafficking offenses stemming from an investigation known...

MANHATTAN - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the conviction of Khalif Phillips, a former New York City Correction Officer, in connection with his smuggling of marijuana into Riker’s Island for inmates to redistribute late last night. Following a one-week trial, the...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge today sentenced a Birmingham man to 20 years in prison for selling heroin that caused the 2013 death of a Northport man, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay A. Morris and U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance. Harold Donald Mims, 31...

WASHINGTON - DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart and United States Attorney Preet Bharara of the Southern District of New York today announced that 21 citizens of the Dominican Republic have been charged with conspiring to impersonate United States law enforcement officers, extortion, and wire fraud. Beginning two weeks ago, authorities...

MANHATTAN - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and James J. Hunt, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division announced that Alfonso Portillo, the former president of Guatemala, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in the Eastern District of New York charging Dr. Michael Randall with illegal distribution of thousands of prescription pain pills, including oxycodone, oxymorphone, methadone, and carisoprodol. Randall surrendered earlier today, and his initial appearance is scheduled for this...

NEW YORK - Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, James J. Hunt, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton and Joseph A. D’Amico, Superintendent of the New York State Police, announced the...

JACKSON, Miss. - Kelvin Robinson, 46, of Bolton, Mississippi, was sentenced in U.S. District Court on May 15, 2014 to 172 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute over 1,000 kilograms of marijuana, and 120 months in prison for money laundering, announced DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Floyd H...