United States Drug Enforcement Administration

NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration; Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Cyrus Vance, Jr., the New York County District Attorney; and Thomas Zugibe, the Rockland County District Attorney...

NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Thomas E. Bishop, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Office of Internal Revenue Service...

NEW YORK - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division, announced today that Andy Sosa - the former leader of the “Trinitarios,” a violent street and prison gang composed...

PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in (SAC) Gary Tuggle of the DEA Philadelphia Field Division was invited to speak with undergraduate students enrolled in a Comparative Politics course at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. These students have elected to spend their semester learning about the war on drugs and alternative approaches...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Austin Romain, a former New York City Correction Officer, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court today to 41 months in prison for narcotics, bribery, and honest services fraud offenses arising from...

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

PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in Charge Gary Tuggle announced today that the Jim Thorpe Police (JTPD) and the Lehighton Borough Police (LBPD) requested the assistance of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Allentown Resident Office with an operation that targeted heroin traffickers operating in Jim Thorpe. On September 26th and September 28th...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today in Brooklyn federal court, Marcos Rodriguez, who committed a string of drug robberies and related crimes, was sentenced to 272 months of imprisonment. The sentencing proceeding was held before U.S. District Judge Sandra L. Townes. Rodriguez was convicted in July 2011 after a two week...

PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in Charge Gary Tuggle of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Philadelphia Field Division would like to invite members of the media to the DEA Pittsburgh District Office on Thursday, October 15th between 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. The DEA office is located at 1781 McKees Rocks Road...

NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Dennis Sica was sentenced today in White Plains federal court to 35 years in...