United States Drug Enforcement Administration

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - An indictment was unsealed today in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging Nestor Luis Reverol Torres, the former General Director of Venezuela’s La Oficina Nacional (ONA) and former commander of Venezuela’s National Guard, and Edylberto Jose Molina Molina, the former Sub-Director...

SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y. - Nearly four kilograms of heroin and fentanyl have been seized and 24 people arrested on drug possession and conspiracy charges as a result of an investigation into 10 fatal overdoses in Suffolk and Nassau Counties and nine drug overdoses in which individuals were revived with Narcan...

NEW YORK - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), announced the sentencing yesterday of James Smith, a/k/a “Heavy D,” to 34 years in...

NEW YORK - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection (USPIS), and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA)...

(GREENBELT, Md. - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Jeffrey Sean Nazari, 44, of Silver Spring, Maryland, today to 15 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing a controlled substance analogue, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Nazari admitted that...

NEW YORK - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Robert L. Capers, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Wifredo A. Ferrer, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announced that Daniel Barrera Barrera, also...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, Nestor Marcelino Delacruz (Delacruz) was arraigned on an indictment before United States District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis in Brooklyn federal court. Delacruz is charged with the 2003 firearm-related homicide of Francisco De Orbe. The charges were announced by James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge...

ALBANY, N.Y. - Joshua Stegemann, age 39, of Stephentown, New York, was sentenced today to serve 30 years of imprisonment, to be followed by lifetime supervised release, (i) possessing cocaine, heroin, and oxycodone with the intent to distribute; (ii) possessing two handguns in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime; (iii)...