United States Drug Enforcement Administration

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced yesterday that John Anthony Barton, 33, of Dix, N.Y., was convicted of conspiracy to manufacture 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, possession...

BALTIMORE - David Russo, age 62, of Hagerstown, Maryland pleaded guilty today to health care fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid by billing for prescriptions that Russo knew were not written for a legitimate medical purpose. The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney...

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

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - An indictment was filed this afternoon in federal court in the Eastern District of New York charging Andrea Sanderlin of Scarsdale, New York, with manufacturing and possessing marijuana with intent to distribute it and maintaining a drug-involved premise. Sanderlin, 45, was arrested on May 20, 2013, when...

BALTIMORE - A federal jury today convicted Lenny Cain, age 36, of Baltimore, Maryland, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone, and for possession with intent to distribute oxycodone. The conviction was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Special...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - - Jimmy Cournoyer, the leader of a massive international drug trafficking enterprise with ties to La Cosa Nostra, the Hells Angels and the notorious Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico, pled guilty earlier today before U.S. District Judge Raymond J. Dearie at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn to eleven...

GREENBELT - , Md. - U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams, Jr. sentenced Nery Gustavo Ramos-Duarte, age 52, of Chiquimula, Guatemala, today to 160 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and import five kilograms or more of cocaine, commit money laundering, and smuggle...

(MANHATTAN, N.Y.) - Robert Whitfield, a Correction Officer with the New York City Department of Correction, was convicted yesterday, May 30 on charges of drug possession, conspiracy, bribery and official misconduct. The announcement was made by Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division, United States...

BALTIMORE - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Vincent Hernandez, 31, of Hagerstown, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute cocaine base, possession of a firearm in furtherance of the drug conspiracy and being a felon in possession...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division Office of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Richard S. Hartunian, the United States Attorney of the Northern District of New York and Joseph A. D'Amico, New York State Police Superintendent announces that two indictments...