United States Drug Enforcement Administration

HOUSTON -- In what is believed to be the first fentanyl distribution case using the dark web and crypto currency in the Southwest Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Region, a federal judge in San Antonio today sentenced 30-year-old Alaa Mohammed Allawi to 30 years in federal prison for distributing...

​ ​ PHILADELPHIA – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Philadelphia Field Division Jonathan A. Wilson today announced today the release of the Drug-Related Overdose Deaths in Pennsylvania, 2018 report. For the third year in a row, the DEA Philadelphia Field Division has partnered with the University...

NEWARK, N.J. – Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Craig Carpenito, and Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Newark Field Division Charlie J. Patterson, announced seventeen people...

BANGOR, Maine - A Rochester, New York man was sentenced Oct. 2, 2019 in federal court in Bangor for conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine base and fentanyl announced DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank. U.S. District Judge John A...

OCALA, Fla. - Cesar Osiris DeLeon-Castillo, age 36, of Clermont, and Jefry Agustin Valerio-Perez, age 39, of Orlando, were sentenced to five years and four years and nine months in federal prison, respectively, for possession with the intent to distribute one kilogram of heroin. DeLeon-Castillo and Valerio-Perez pleaded guilty in...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Today, U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced Oscar Orlando Navarro-Melendez, 31, a Honduran national residing in Asheville, N.C. to 135 months in prison and five years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North...

AUSTIN, Texas -- This week, federal, state and local authorities arrested 13 individuals residing in Austin, including ringleader Juan Aguirre, in connection with a cocaine/heroin/methamphetamine trafficking operation, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy, Houston Division, Austin Police Chief Brian Manley...

ERIE COUNTY, N.Y> – Ray Donovan, special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division, Attorney General Letitia James, and New York State Police Superintendent Keith M. Corlett today announced the arrests of 23 people for their roles in two drug trafficking rings operating in New...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A 31-year-old Huntsville, Alabama, woman has entered a guilty plea to knowingly attempting to smuggle 20 pounds of pure meth, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Houston Division Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. On June 21, 2019, Guadalupe Inostroza-Diaz drove...

DALLAS - An Arlington drug dealer who sold the heroin that killed an 18-year-old Southlake girl was sentenced today to more than 28 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox. Michael Dasean Robinson, 33, pleaded guilty on April 12 to conspiracy...