DEA Archived Press Releases

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Three Charged In Schemes To Smuggle Cocaine And Cash To And From Costa Rica

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) New York Division; Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor; Angel M. Melendez, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration Customs (ICE) Homeland Security (HSI) New York; New York City Police...
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Life In Prison For Racketeering Kingpin

NEW YORK - - Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Manuel Geovanny Rodriguez-Perez, a/k/a “Shorty,” was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain to spend the remainder of his life in prison for his role as a leader of a...
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13 Years For Trucking Company Owner For Role In $6.5 Million Crystal Meth, Heroin Haul

ALBANY, N.Y. - - Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division, George P. Beach II, Superintendent of the New York State (NYSP), and New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill announced today...
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Two Heroin/Fentanyl Overdose Deaths: Columbia County, New York Man Indicted

ALBANY, N.Y. - - Jacob Ebel, age 29, of Niverville, New York, was arraigned today on charges that he distributed heroin and fentanyl that caused two overdose deaths in Columbia County in July 2016. The announcement was made by James J. Hunt, Special Agent-in-Charge, New York Division of the U.S...
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Nine Million Dollars’ Worth Of Cocaine Seized In Buffalo, N.Y.

BUFFALO, N.Y. - - Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division and Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that James Wilkie, Remus Nowak, and Fernando Rodriguez, of Buffalo, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to possess with...
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Nine Defendants Charged With Conspiracy To Distribute Heroin And Oxycodone In Staten Island, New York

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - - An indictment and two complaints were unsealed today in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging nine defendants with conspiring to distribute heroin and/or oxycodone in Staten Island, New York. Eight defendants were arrested earlier today in Staten Island and...
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Eight Defendants Charged In Manhattan Federal Court With Narcotics Trafficking In The Bronx

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police (NYPD), today announced the...
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Plattsburgh Man Charged In Fatal Heroin Overdose

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. - - Thomas A. Burnell, 34, of Plattsburgh, New York, was charged today with distributing heroin resulting in another person’s death. Burnell is detained pending a detention hearing before Magistrate Judge Gary L. Favro on February 14, 2017. The announcement was made by James Hunt, Special Agent-in-Charge of...
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Narcotics Dealer Charged In Manhattan Federal Court For Overdose Death

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police (NYPD), announced the...
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Heroin Trafficker Sentenced To 12 Years For Heroin Overdose Deaths

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - - Roosevelt Williams, aka “Mumsie,” 59, was sentenced to a term of 12 years in prison, and forfeiture of over $100,000 in drug proceeds and property, for his extensive heroin dealing in and around Poughkeepsie, New York. As set forth in Williams’s plea agreement, and the materials...