United States Drug Enforcement Administration

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division, Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Joseph A. D’Amico, the Superintendent of the New York State (NYSP),announced the unsealing yesterday of an indictment and...

SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y. - U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota and the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York Bridget G. Brennan today announced at a news conference in Riverhead the arraignments of an alleged Deer Park...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York, Gracia L. Mayard, a Queens doctor, was sentenced to 54 months in prison and $20,000 forfeiture by United States District Judge Joseph F. Bianco. Mayard pleaded guilty to conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone, a highly addictive...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and William J. Bratton, the Commissioner of the New York City Police (NYPD), today announced the...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Phosavan Khamnivong a.k.a. “P.K.,” 34, of Anchorage, Alaska was sentenced today to 77 years’ imprisonment following his February 2015, convictions on drug trafficking conspiracy, two kidnapping charges, and two firearm charges. “Today, the violence, fear and intimidation utilized by this defendant stops,” said DEA Acting Special Agent...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division, Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton and Steven Banks, Commissioner of the New York City Human Resources (HRA), Department of...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Today, Etienne Q. Devoe, 42, of Fairbanks, Alaska, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 126 months in prison to be followed by a five year term of supervised release for conspiring to distribute cocaine and heroin, and conspiring to launder the proceeds from the sale of...

SEATTLE - The man who touched off a devastating Bellevue apartment fire with his illegal hash oil manufacturing was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to nine years in prison. David Richard Schultz II, 33, was using highly explosive butane gas to make hash oil in the Hampton...

EUGENE, Ore. - Cesar Arnoldo Menjivar, 30, of Lane County, Oregon, was sentenced on Tuesday, June 2, 2015, in U.S. District Court to a 96-month prison term for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Following his release from prison, Menjivar will be on supervised release for four years. On June 3, 2015...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division, and Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor announced today the sentencing of drug kingpin Jose Mauro Mota to 11 years in prison and five years post-release supervision for...