United States Drug Enforcement Administration

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Tameshwar Ammar, a former medical doctor in Roslyn, New York, pleaded guilty via teleconference to conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone. Ammar was indicted in November 2019. On June 22, 2020, he relinquished his license to practice medicine. Today’s plea...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Troy Jackson, 43, of Syracuse, New York, was sentenced today to serve 46 months in prison for his conviction for participating in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, Thomas F. Relford, Special...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. –Wynn, 43, of Syracuse, New York, was sentenced today to serve 92 months in prison for violating the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) as part of the 110 Gang. In imposing sentence, Senior United States District Judge Frederick J. Scullin, Jr. also ordered Wynn to serve three...

NEW YORK - Today, Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Leigh-Alistair Barzey, Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast Field Office of the U.S...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment today against Steven Lawrence Robinson, 34, of Granite Bay, and Nathaniel Opondo Hubbert, 39, of Grass Valley, charging them with a conspiracy to possess and distribute fentanyl and other narcotics offenses, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement...

FRESNO, Calif. — U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd sentenced Darnell Pearson, 42, of Fresno, today to 30 years in prison for two counts of distribution of fentanyl resulting in death and serious bodily injury, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Daniel C...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division, Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, and Western District of New York, U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., announced today that Phousavath Luangrath, 30, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of misprision of a felony, was sentenced to serve one year...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Michael Starkey, 29, of Syracuse, New York, was sentenced today to serve 61 months in prison for his convictions on multiple charges relating to his participation in cocaine and crack cocaine distribution conspiracies, announced Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Ray Donovan, Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division, and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., Western District of New York, announced today that Nathaniel Myers, a/k/a Stretch, 26, and Robert Fletcher, 29, both of Buffalo, NY, were charged by criminal complaint with...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A 24-count indictment was unsealed yesterday in federal court in Central Islip charging eight members of the violent transnational criminal organization La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the “MS-13,” with multiple racketeering offenses in connection with six murders, two attempted murders, a kidnapping conspiracy and narcotics trafficking...