United States Drug Enforcement Administration

(ROCHESTER, N.Y.) Yesterday, federal authorities in Rochester announced that a significant international synthetic drug trafficking ring was successfully infiltrated. In the Rochester area, eight defendants were charged by criminal complaint for their participation in the conspiracy to import and distribute significant quantities of Methylone, also known as "Molly," a Schedule...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge, New York Division and Bridget G. Brennan New York City's Special Narcotics Prosecutor, announced today that Dr. Robert S. Gibbs, Sr., a licensed internal medicine physician, pleaded guilty to illegally selling prescriptions for powerful narcotic painkillers...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge, New York Division and Bridget G. Brennan New York City's Special Narcotics Prosecutor, announced today the sentencing of Robert Whitfield, formerly a Correction Officer with the New York City Department of Correction, to eight years in...

SEATTLE - Early this morning, federal agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration arrested a resident of Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood who had repeatedly sold marijuana to middle and high school students. On September 13, 2013, Alejandro Antonio Castillo, 51, was charged by a criminal complaint with conspiracy to distribute marijuana, two...

NEW YORK - Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, Joseph A. D’Amico, Superintendent of the New York State Police, and Special Agent in Charge...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Joshua Mustovich, 31, from Fairbanks, Alaska, was sentenced on September 6, 2013, in U.S. District Court to 87 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release. Mustovich had previously pled guilty to count one of an indictment charging him with drug conspiracy. In January 2012, Mustovich...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Brian R. Crowell and Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore announced that Marvin L. Korn MD of 88 West Garden Road, Larchmont, New York was arraigned today on a Felony Complaint charging him with three counts of Criminal Sale...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On August 30, 2013, four Anchorage men were indicted for drug conspiracy, kidnapping, and using firearms in furtherance of these crimes. The four men indicted are as follows: Stuart T. Seugasala, a/k/a "Tone", age 38; Phosavan Khamnivong, a/k/a "P.K.", age 33, Timothy Miller, a/k/a "Lil' Tone", age...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - - The leader of a major heroin distribution network and twelve associates based in Syracuse, NY have been arrested as part of a three month investigation. Reinaldo Santos was arrested yesterday, August 26th after a two day enforcement operation spearheaded by the High Intensity Drug Trafficking (HIDTA)...

SEATTLE - A drug trafficker who came to the attention of law enforcement after his roommate was shot and killed in November 2012, was sentenced on August 27, 2013, in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 15 years in prison and five years of supervised release. Juan Hidalgo-Mendoza, 33, of...