DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Four Individuals Arrested On Marijuana Charges In Otsego County

OTSEGO COUNTY, N.Y. - Four Otsego County residents were arrested for marijuana offenses following a two month narcotics investigation that was conducted by the Otsego County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation (CID) and the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Albany District Office with assistance from the Oneonta Police Department Detective Bureau and the...
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Colombian Drug Kingpin Charged With Smuggling 35 Pounds Of Heroin Destined For New York In Freight Containers

MANHATTAN - 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 today the indictment...
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Drug Kingpin And Eight Others Indicted For Smuggling Millions Of Dollars In Heroin From Colombia To New York City

MANHATTAN - 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 today the indictment...
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Heroin Pipeline From The Bronx To Otsego County Shut Down

OTSEGO COUNTY, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) Brian R. Crowell, Otsego County Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr, Oneonta Police Chief Dennis R. Nayor and Otsego County District Attorney John M. Muehl announce the arrest of a major trafficking ring...
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Doctor Pleads Guilty In White Plains Federal Court To Illegal Distribution Of Oxycodone

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced today that Felix Rodriguez, a licensed medical doctor, pled guilty to a one-count...
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Undercover Operation Nabs Two Defendants Charged In Federal Court With Distribution Of Synthetic Drug Known As “Bath Salts”

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Chief Egidio Tinti of the (N.Y.) Police Department, announced the arrest today of...
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Two Members Of Manhattan Trinitarios Gang Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court For Racketeering And Firearms Offenses

MANHATTAN - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division Office of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced today that Jonathan Feliz, the former leader of the Manhattan branch of the “Trinitarios,”...
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Violent Drug Dealer Sentenced To 15 Years Imprisonment

PHOENIX - On Feb. 4, 2013, Robert Francis Dayaye, Jr. (a.k.a. “Fat Rob”), 33, of Whiteriver, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judges Neil V. Wake and G. Murray Snow to a combined term of imprisonment of 15 years. Dayaye pleaded guilty on Oct. 5, 2102, to possession with intent...
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Two Distributors Of Oxycodone Powder Arrested

- ALBANY, N.Y. - Two former Oneonta residents, Dylan J. Clark and Michelle L. Slonaker, were arrested last Friday as part of “Operation Gold Rush” that was conducted by the Otsego County Sheriff’s (OCSO), the Oneonta Police (OPD), and the Albany District Office of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, into...
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Manhattan Doctor Illegally Sold Painkiller Prescriptions To Drug Trafficking Organization

MANHATTAN - - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division; Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor; Raymond W. Kelly New York City Police Commissioner; James C. Cox Medicaid Inspector General; Nirav R. Shah, M.D., New York State Commissioner of Health M.P.H...